1969 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 800 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 16 and 18 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Lillian Board  Great Britain
Silver	Annelise Damm Olesen  Denmark
Bronze	Vera Nikolić  Yugoslavia

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lillian Board	Great Britain	2:01.50	CR
	Annelise Damm Olesen	Denmark	2:02.6	NR
	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2:02.6
4	Barbara Wieck	East Germany	2:02.7
5	Ileana Silai	Romania	2:03.0
6	Patricia Lowe	Great Britain	2:03.4
7	Anne-Marie Nenzell	Sweden	2:05.2
8	Ilja Keizer	Netherlands	2:05.2

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ileana Silai	Romania	2:05.0	Q
2	Anne-Marie Nenzell	Sweden	2:06.0	Q
3	Gertrud Schmidt	East Germany	2:06.0
4	Zofia Kołakowska	Poland	2:07.1
5	Britt Ramstad	Norway	2:07.4
6	Neşe Karatepe	Turkey	2:18.8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2:04.2	Q
2	Patricia Lowe	Great Britain	2:05.9	Q
3	Milda Kade	Soviet Union	2:06.7
4	Maryvonne Dupureur	France	2:09.6
5	María Budavári	Hungary	2:10.7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lillian Board	Great Britain	2:04.2	Q
2	Annelise Damm Olesen	Denmark	2:04.5	NR Q
3	Ilja Keizer	Netherlands	2:04.8	q
4	Barbara Wieck	East Germany	2:05.4	q

According to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.