| 1 | Nils Schumann | GER | 1:50,11 | Q |
| 2 | Wilson Kirwa | FIN | 1:50,24 | Q |
| 3 | Balazs Koranyi | HUN | 1:50,29 | Q |
| 4 | Roman Oravec | CZE | 1:50,33 | |
| 5 | Tom Omey | BEL | 1:51,46 | |
| 6 | Eugenio Barrios | ESP | 1:53,21 |
| 1 | Yuriy Borzakovskiy | RUS | 1:51,46 | Q |
| 2 | Roberto Parra | ESP | 1:51,79 | Q |
| 3 | Marco Chiavarini | ITA | 1:52,03 | Q |
| 4 | Carlos Calvo | LUX | 1:53,15 | |
| 5 | Ben Quintelier | BEL | 1:55,76 | |
| Wojciech Kaldowski | POL | DNS |