1998 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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 800 metres at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held at the Népstadion on 18, 19 and 20 August.

Gold	Yelena Afanasyeva  Russia
Silver	Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden
Bronze	Stephanie Graf  Austria

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Violeta Szekely	Romania	1:59.98	Q
1	2	Yelena Afanasyeva	Russia	1:59.98	Q
3	1	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	2:00.17	Q
4	3	Stephanie Graf	Austria	2:00.25	Q
5	1	Aleksandra Dereń	Poland	2:00.31	Q
6	2	Viviane Dorsile	France	2:00.31	Q
7	2	Natalya Dukhnova	Belarus	2:00.33	Q
8	1	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	2:00.52	q
9	3	Natalya Tsyganova	Russia	2:00.84	Q
10	2	Irina Krakoviak	Lithuania	2:01.04	q
11	3	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2:01.13	Q
12	3	Maria Akraka	Sweden	2:01.32	q
13	2	Petya Strashilova	Bulgaria	2:01.42	q
14	3	Pilar Barreiro	Spain	2:01.60
15	2	Ana Menéndez	Spain	2:01.63
16	4	Larissa Mikhailova	Russia	2:02.03	Q
17	4	Heike Meißner	Germany	2:02.20	Q
18	1	Sandra Stals	Belgium	2:02.34
19	3	Yelena Buzhenko	Ukraine	2:02.36
20	4	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	2:02.37	Q
21	4	Anita Brägger	Switzerland	2:02.50
22	4	Patricia Djaté-Taillard	France	2:02.60
23	2	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	2:02.78
24	4	Ella Kovacs	Romania	2:02.85
25	3	Judit Varga	Hungary	2:03.05
25	4	Monica Lundgren	Sweden	2:03.05
27	2	Claudia Gesel	Germany	2:03.20
28	3	Elena Buhăianu	Romania	2:04.01
29	1	Brigitte Mühlbacher	Austria	2:04.02
30	1	Virgie Fouquet	France	2:04.20
31	1	Nuria Fernández	Spain	2:04.89
	4	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands	DNS

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Yelena Afanasyeva	Russia	1:59.22	Q
2	1	Larissa Mikhailova	Russia	1:59.33	Q
3	2	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	1:59.44	Q, NR
4	1	Stephanie Graf	Austria	1:59.50	Q
5	2	Violeta Szekely	Romania	1:59.71	Q
6	1	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	1:59.77	Q, PB
7	2	Heike Meißner	Germany	1:59.92	q
8	1	Natalya Dukhnova	Belarus	1:59.95	q, SB
9	1	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	2:00.08
10	2	Viviane Dorsile	France	2:00.26	SB
11	1	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2:00.88
12	1	Maria Akraka	Sweden	2:01.13
13	2	Petya Strashilova	Bulgaria	2:01.54
14	1	Natalya Tsyganova	Russia	2:01.96
15	2	Aleksandra Dereń	Poland	2:02.22
16	2	Irina Krakoviak	Lithuania	2:06.29

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yelena Afanasyeva	Russia	1:58.50
	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	1:59.61
	Stephanie Graf	Austria	2:00.11
4	Violeta Szekely	Romania	2:00.56
5	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	2:00.66
6	Heike Meißner	Germany	2:01.36
7	Natalya Dukhnova	Belarus	2:02.14
8	Larissa Mikhailova	Russia	DNF

• Results
• Results
• Results