1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Events at the
1954 European
Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men
800 m men women
1500 m men
5000 m men
10,000 m men
80 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase		 men
10,000 m track walk men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
50 km walk men
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26, 28, and 29 August 1954.[1]

Medalists

Gold Anatoliy Yulin
 Soviet Union
Silver Yuriy Lituyev
 Soviet Union
Bronze Sven-Oswald Mildh
 Finland

Results

Final

29 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Anatoliy Yulin  Soviet Union 50.5 CR
2nd Yuriy Lituyev  Soviet Union 50.8
3rd Sven-Oswald Mildh  Finland 51.5 NR
4 Guy Cury  France 51.8
5 Bob Shaw  United Kingdom 52.3 NR
6 Antal Lippay  Hungary 52.4 NR

Semi-finals

28 August

Semi-final 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Anatoliy Yulin  Soviet Union 51.6 Q
2 Guy Cury  France 51.7 Q
3 Sven-Oswald Mildh  Finland 51.8 NR Q
4 Sven Olov Eriksson  Sweden 52.0
5 Armando Filiput  Italy 52.3
6 Kurt Bonah  West Germany 53.4

Semi-final 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Yuriy Lituyev  Soviet Union 52.3 Q
2 Bob Shaw  United Kingdom 52.5 Q
3 Antal Lippay  Hungary 52.6 Q
4 Robert Bart  France 52.7
5 Ilie Savel  Romania 53.3
6 Lars Ylander  Sweden 54.9

Heats

26 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Sven Olov Eriksson  Sweden 53.1 Q
2 Armando Filiput  Italy 54.0 Q
3 Jan Borgersen  Norway 54.8
4 José Fórmiga  Spain 55.3

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Yuriy Lituyev  Soviet Union 51.1 CR Q
2 Kurt Bonah  West Germany 54.0 Q
3 Gerald Wicher  Austria 55.9
4 Aydin Tunali  Turkey 60.2

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Anatoliy Yulin  Soviet Union 52.1 Q
2 Robert Bart  France 52.7 Q
3 Harry Kane  United Kingdom 52.7
4 Karl Borgula   Switzerland 55.3

Heat 4

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Bob Shaw  United Kingdom 53.4 Q
2 Ilie Savel  Romania 54.0 Q
3 Josef Kost   Switzerland 54.4
4 Gianfranco Fantuzzi  Italy 55.2

Heat 5

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Sven-Oswald Mildh  Finland 53.6 Q
2 Lars Ylander  Sweden 53.8 Q
3 Wolfgang Fischer  West Germany 53.9
4 Gheorghe Stanel  Romania 55.3

Heat 6

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Guy Cury  France 52.9 Q
2 Antal Lippay  Hungary 53.2 Q
3 Dirk Stoclet  Belgium 54.5
4 Rudolf Haidegger  Austria 55.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, February 12, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.