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Date: 20 July 1908 / 21 July 1908
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Melvin Sheppard | USA | 1:52.8 |
| 2 | Emilio Lunghi | ITA | 1:54.2 |
| 3 | Hanns Braun | GER | 1:55.2 |
| 4 | Ödön Bodor | HUN | 1:55.4 |
| 5 | Theodore Just | GBR | 1:56.4 |
| 6 | John Halstead | USA | |
| 7 | Clarke Beard | USA | |
| 8 | Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford | GBR | |
| Heats | |||
| 9 | Arthur Astley | GBR | 1:59.8 |
| 9 | Andreas Breynck | GER | 2:06.0 |
| 9 | Joseph Bromilow | USA | 1:58.3 |
| 9 | George Butterfield | GBR | 1:58.9 |
| 9 | Kristian Hellström | SWE | |
| 9 | James Lintott | GBR | 1:58.8 |
| 9 | John Lee | GBR | 2:01.7 |
| 16 | Harry Coe | USA | 1:58.0 |
| 17 | Donald Buddo | CAN | |
| 17 | George Morphy | GBR | |
| 17 | Harvey Sutton | AUS | |
| 17 | Evert Björn | SWE | |
| 17 | Harold Holding | GBR | 1:58.5 |
| 17 | Lloyd Jones | USA | 1:58.6 |
| 17 | R. Irving Parkes | CAN | 1:58.0 |
| 24 | Oscar Quarg | GER | 2:10.0 |
| 24 | James Lightbody | USA | |
| 24 | Francis Sheehan | USA | |
| 24 | József Nagy | HUN | |
| Did not finish | |||
| Bram Evers | NED | ||
| Gosta Danielson | SWE | ||
| Frederick Ashford | GBR | ||
| Charles French | USA | ||
| Horace Ramey | USA | ||
| Larry Manogue | GBR | ||
| Stefanos Dimitrios | GRE | ||
| Edward Dahl | SWE | ||
| Fredrik Svanström | FIN | ||
| Ary Vosbergen | NED | ||
| Hendrik van der Wal | NED | ||