| 1 | Mbulaeni Mulaudzi | RSA | 1:46,82 | Q |
| 2 | Yuriy Borzakovskiy | RUS | 1:47,09 | Q |
| 3 | Juan de Dios Jurado | ESP | 1:47,38 | Q |
| 4 | Amine Laalou | MAR | 1:47,55 | |
| 5 | Abdulrahman Suleiman | QAT | 1:47,87 | |
| 6 | Khadevis Robinson | USA | 1:48,30 |
| 1 | Wilfred Bungei | KEN | 1:46,09 | Q |
| 2 | Dmitrijs Milkevics | LAT | 1:47,23 | Q |
| 3 | James Watkins | GBR | 1:47,23 | Q |
| 4 | Ramil Aritkulov | RUS | 1:47,50 | |
| 5 | Arnoud Okken | NED | 1:47,68 | |
| 6 | Eugenio Barrios | ESP | 1:52,75 |