1954 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

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 women's 800 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25 and 27 August 1954.[1]

Medalists

Gold Nina Otkalenko
 Soviet Union
Silver Diane Leather
 United Kingdom
Bronze Lyudmila Lysenko
 Soviet Union

Results

Final

27 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Nina Otkalenko  Soviet Union 2:08.8 CR
2nd Diane Leather  United Kingdom 2:09.8
3rd Lyudmila Lysenko  Soviet Union 2:11.2
4 Aranka Kazi  Hungary 2:11.9
5 Bożena Pestka  Poland 2:12.6
6 Valerie Winn  United Kingdom 2:13.3
7 Anne Oliver  United Kingdom 2:13.3
8 Bedřiška Müllerová  Czechoslovakia 2:13.6
9 Anna Bácskai  Hungary 2:14.6

Heats

25 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Nina Otkalenko  Soviet Union 2:09.9 Q
2 Anne Oliver  United Kingdom 2:11.8 Q
3 Bedřiška Müllerová  Czechoslovakia 2:11.8 NR Q
4 Ágnes Oros  Hungary 2:11.8
5 Inga Nyqvist  Finland 2:17.2

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Aranka Kazi  Hungary 2:11.8 Q
2 Bożena Pestka  Poland 2:12.0 NR Q
3 Valerie Winn  United Kingdom 2:12.4 Q
4 Nina Cernoscek  Soviet Union 2:12.7
5 Marianne Weiss  West Germany 2:15.6 NR
6 Odile Monguillon  France 2:17.3
7 Maria Kessels  Belgium 2:33.7

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Lyudmila Lysenko  Soviet Union 2:08.8 CR Q
2 Diane Leather  United Kingdom 2:08.9 Q
3 Anna Bácskai  Hungary 2:12.5 Q
4 Claude Laurent  France 2:14.7
5 Loredana Simonetti  Italy 2:16.5
6 Isolde Beichler  West Germany 2:17.6
7 Ludmila Dunst  Austria 2:24.7

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 11 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
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