2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Venue	Omnisport Apeldoorn [1]
Location	Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Dates	7 March 2025 (round 1) 8 March 2025 (semi-finals) 9 March 2025 (final)
Competitors	29 from 19 nations
Winning time	2:02.09
Medalists
Anna Wielgosz    Poland   Clara Liberman    France   Anita Horvat    Slovenia
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The women's 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships is scheduled to be held on the short track of Omnisport in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on 7, 8 and 9 March 2025. This will be the 38th time the event is contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking in the event.

Round 1 is scheduled for 7 March during the morning session. The semi-finals are scheduled for 8 March during the evening session. The final is scheduled for 9 March during the evening session.

Background

The women's 800 metres was contested 37 times before 2025, at every previous edition of the European Athletics Indoor Championships (1970–2023). ^{[2] [3]} The 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. ^[4] The removable indoor athletics track was retopped for these championships in September 2024. ^[4]

Jolanda Čeplak is the world and European record holder with a time of 1:55.82, set at the 2002 championships. ^[5]

Records before the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record [6]	Jolanda Čeplak  (SLO)	1:55.82	Vienna, Austria	3 March 2002
European record [6]
Championship record [5]
World leading [7]	Tsige Duguma  (ETH)	1:58.97	Metz, France	8 February 2025
European leading [7]	Jemma Reekie  (GBR)	1:59.72

Qualification

For the women's 800 metres, the qualification period runs from 25 February 2024 until 23 February 2025. ^[8] Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standards of 2:02.00 s indoors or 1:59.00 s outdoor, or by virtue of their World Athletics Ranking for the event. ^[8] There is a target number of 30 athletes. ^[8]

Rounds

Round 1

Round 1 was held on 7 March, starting at 10:15 (UTC+1) in the morning. ^[9] First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 by time (q) qualify for the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Eveliina Määttänen	Finland	2:02.73	Q
2	Charlotte Dumas	France	2:02.96	Q
3	Erin Wallace	Great Britain	2:03.38
4	Majtie Kolberg	Germany	2:03.38
5	Lorea Ibarzabal	Spain	2:03.50
6	Georgia-Maria Despollari	Greece	2:03.80
[10]

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anita Horvat	Slovenia	2:08.71	Q
2	Lore Hoffmann	Switzerland	2:08.75	Q
3	Grace Vans Agnew	Great Britain	2:08.87
4	Caroline Bredlinger	Austria	2:08.90
5	Aleksandra Formella	Poland	2:09.60
6	Bianka Bartha-Kéri	Hungary	2:09.71
[11]

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anna Wielgosz	Poland	2:03.94	Q
2	Rachel Pellaud	Switzerland	2:04.04	Q
3	Léna Kandissounon	France	2:04.86
4	Gabriela Gajanová	Slovakia	2:04.95
5	Malin Ingeborg Nyfors	Norway	2:06.98
6	Priscilla van Oorschot	Netherlands	2:09.07
[12]

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Audrey Werro	Switzerland	2:00.92	Q, AU23R
2	Clara Liberman	France	2:01.00	Q, PB
3	Wilma Nielsen	Sweden	2:02.68	q
4	Daniela García	Spain	2:02.75	q
—	Annemarie Nissen	Denmark	DNF
[13]

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Angelika Sarna	Poland	2:03.91	Q
2	Eloisa Coiro	Italy	2:04.09	Q
3	Gabija Galvydytė	Lithuania	2:04.18
4	Isabelle Boffey	Great Britain	2:04.28
5	Marta Mitjans	Spain	2:05.52
6	Nina Vuković	Croatia	2:05.94
[14]

Semi-finals

The semi-finals were held on 8 March, starting at 19:53 (UTC+1) in the evening. ^[9] First 3 in each heat (Q) qualify for the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Audrey Werro	Switzerland	2:01.76	Q
2	Clara Liberman	France	2:01.79	Q
3	Eloisa Coiro	Italy	2:02.02	Q
4	Daniela García	Spain	2:02.16	PB
5	Angelika Sarna	Poland	2:02.54
6	Eveliina Määttänen	Finland	2:03.04
[15]

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anna Wielgosz	Poland	2:03.29	Q
2	Anita Horvat	Slovenia	2:03.48	Q
3	Rachel Pellaud	Switzerland	2:03.53	Q
4	Wilma Nielsen	Sweden	2:03.55
5	Lore Hoffmann	Switzerland	2:03.82
6	Charlotte Dumas	France	2:05.84
[16]

Final

The final is scheduled for 9 March, starting at 16:33 (UTC+1) in the evening. ^[9]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Anna Wielgosz	Poland	2:02.09
	Clara Liberman	France	2:02.32
	Anita Horvat	Slovenia	2:02.52
4	Eloisa Coiro	Italy	2:02.59
5	Rachel Pellaud	Switzerland	2:03.87
6	Audrey Werro	Switzerland	2:27.37
[17]

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