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Date: 23 July 1976 / 24 July 1976 / 25 July 1976
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Alberto Juantorena | CUB | 1:43.50 |
| 2 | Ivo Van Damme | BEL | 1:43.86 |
| 3 | Richard Wohlhuter | USA | 1:44.12 |
| 4 | Willi Wulbeck | FRG | 1:45.26 |
| 5 | Steve Ovett | GBR | 1:45.44 |
| 6 | Lucijano Susanj | YUG | 1:45.75 |
| 7 | Sriram Singh | IND | 1:45.77 |
| 8 | Carlo Grippo | ITA | 1:48.39 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | James Robinson | USA | 1:46.43 |
| 10 | Marian Gesicki | POL | 1:47.06 |
| 11 | Seymour Newman | JAM | 1:47.22 |
| 12 | Leandro Civil | CUB | 1:47.31 |
| 13 | Victor Anohin | URS | 1:47.71 |
| 14 | Thomas Wessinghage | FRG | 1:48.18 |
| 15 | Frank Clement | GBR | 1:48.28 |
| 16 | Horace Tuitt | TTO | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Janos Zemen | HUN | 1:47.40 |
| 18 | John Walker | NZL | 1:47.63 |
| 19 | Milovan Savic | YUG | 1:47.73 |
| 20 | Mark Enyeart | USA | 1:47.96 |
| 21 | Andres Ballbe | ESP | 1:48.38 |
| 22 | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | FRG | 1:48.47 |
| 23 | Muhammad Younis | PAK | 1:48.50 |
| 24 | Vladimir Ponomarev | URS | 1:48.59 |
| 25 | Josef Plachy | TCH | 1:48.63 |
| 26 | Rolf Gysin | SUI | 1:48.69 |
| 27 | Gunther Hasler | LIE | 1:48.83 |
| 28 | Ake Svensson | SWE | 1:48.86 |
| 29 | Evert Hoving | NED | 1:48.99 |
| 30 | Niall O'Shaughnessy | IRL | 1:49.29 |
| 31 | Fernando Mamede | POR | 1:49.58 |
| 32 | Jose Marajo | FRA | 1:49.60 |
| 33 | Roy Botse | SUR | 1:49.85 |
| 34 | Luis Medina | CUB | 1:50.15 |
| 35 | Marcel Philippe | FRA | 1:50.81 |
| 36 | Jorge Ortiz | PUR | 1:51.38 |
| 37 | Orlando Greene | BAR | 1:51.43 |
| 38 | Francisco Solis | DOM | 1:55.56 |
| 39 | Ateyah El Khashaami | KSA | 1:57.67 |
| 40 | Erasmo Gomez | NCA | 1:57.97 |
| 41 | Wilnor Joseph | HAI | 2:15.26 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Roqui Sanchez | FRA | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Markku Taskinen | FIN | ||