1954 European Athletics Championships
| 5th European Athletics Championships | |
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| Host city | Bern, Switzerland |
| Date(s) | 25 – 29 August 1954 |
| Main stadium | Stadion Neufeld |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Participation |
686 athletes from 28 nations |
| Events | 35 |
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The 5th European Athletics Championships were held at Stadion Neufeld from 25–29 August 1954 in the Swiss capital Bern. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2][3][4][5]
Medal summary
Complete results were published.[6]
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| 100 metres |
 Heinz Fütterer (FRG) | 10.5 CR= |  René Bonino (FRA) | 10.6 |  George Ellis (GBR) | 10.7 |
| 200 metres |
Heinz Fütterer (FRG) | 20.9 CR |  Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) | 21.1 | George Ellis (GBR) | 21.2 |
| 400 metres |
Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) | 46.6 CR |  Voitto Hellstén (FIN) | 47.0 | .svg.png){kind=small} Zoltán Adamik (HUN) | 47.6 |
| 800 metres |
Lajos Szentgáli (HUN) | 1:47.1 CR | .svg.png){kind=small} Lucien De Muynck (BEL) | 1:47.3 |  Audun Boysen (NOR) | 1:47.4 |
| 1500 metres |
Roger Bannister (GBR) | 3:43.8 CR |  Gunnar Nielsen (DEN) | 3:44.4 |  Stanislav Jungwirth (TCH) | 3:45.4 |
| 5000 metres |
Vladimir Kuts (URS) | 13:56.6 CR | Chris Chataway (GBR) | 14:08.8 | Emil Zátopek (TCH) | 14:10.2 |
| 10,000 metres |
Emil Zátopek (TCH) | 28:58.0 CR | József Kovács (HUN) | 29:25.8 | Frank Sando (GBR) | 29:27.6 |
| 110 metres hurdles |
Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) | 14.4 | Jack Parker (GBR) | 14.6 | Berthold Steines (FRG) | 14.7 |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Anatoliy Yulin (URS) | 50.5 CR | Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 50.8 | Ossi Mildh (FIN) | 51.5 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
Sándor Rozsnyói (HUN) | 8:49.6 CR | Olavi Rinteenpää (FIN) | 8:52.4 | Ernst Larsen (NOR) | 8:53.2 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
 HungaryLászló Zarándi Géza Varasdi György Csányi Béla Goldoványi | 40.6 CR | Great Britain Kenneth Box George Ellis Kenneth Jones Brian Shenton | 40.8 | Soviet Union Boris Tokarev Viktor Ryabov Levan Sanadze Leonid Bartenev | 40.9 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay |
France Claude Haarhoff Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau | 3:08.7 CR | West Germany Hans Geister Helmut Drehen Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas | 3:08.8 | Finland Raimo Graeffe Ossi Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellstén | 3:11.5 |
| 10,000 metres track walk |
Josef Doležal (TCH) | 45:01.8 CR | Anatoliy Yegorov (URS) | 45:53.0 | Sergey Lobastov (URS) | 46:21.8 |
| 50 kilometres walk |
Vladimir Ukhov (URS) | 4:22:11.2 CR | Josef Doležal (TCH) | 4:25:07.4 | Antal Róka (HUN) | 4:31:32.2 |
| Marathon |
Veikko Karvonen (FIN) | 2:24:51.6 CR | Boris Grishayev (URS) | 2:24:55.8 | Ivan Filin (URS) | 2:25:26.6 |
| High jump |
 Bengt Nilsson (SWE) | 2.02 m CR | Jiří Lanský (TCH) | 1.98 m | Jaroslav Kovář (TCH) | 1.96 m |
| Pole vault |
Eeles Landström (FIN) | 4.40 m CR | Ragnar Lundberg (SWE) | 4.40 m CR | Jeff Elliott (GBR) | 4.30 m |
| Long jump |
Ödön Földessy (HUN) | 7.51 m |  Zbigniew Iwański (POL) | 7.46 m | Ernest Wanko (FRA) | 7.41 m |
| Triple jump |
Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) | 15.90 m CR | Roger Norman (SWE) | 15.17 m | Martin Řehák (TCH) | 15.10 m |
| Shot put |
Jiří Skobla (TCH) | 17.20 m CR | Oto Grigalka (URS) | 16.69 m | Heino Heinaste (URS) | 16.27 m |
| Discus throw |
 Adolfo Consolini (ITA) | 53.44 m | Giuseppe Tosi (ITA) | 53.34 m | József Szécsényi (HUN) | 51.58 m |
| Javelin throw |
Janusz Sidło (POL) | 76.35 m | Vladimir Kuznetsov (URS) | 74.61 m | Soini Nikkinen (FIN) | 73.38 m |
| Hammer throw |
Mikhail Krivonosov (URS) | 63.34 m CR | Sverre Strandli (NOR) | 61.07 m | József Csermák (HUN) | 59.72 m |
| Decathlon |
Vasili Kuznetsov (URS) | 6752 pts | Torbjörn Lassenius (FIN) | 6424 pts | Heinz Oberbeck (FRG) | 6263 pts |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| 100 metres |
Irina Turova (URS) | 11.8 |  Bertha van Duyne (NED) | 11.9 | Anne Pashley (GBR) | 11.9 |
| 200 metres |
Mariya Itkina (URS) | 24.3 | Irina Turova (URS) | 24.4 | Shirley Hampton (GBR) | 24.4 |
| 800 metres |
Nina Otkalenko (URS) | 2:08.8 CR | Diane Leather (GBR) | 2:09.8 | Lyudmila Lysenko (URS) | 2:11.2 |
| 80 metres hurdles |
Maria Golubnichaya (URS) | 11.0 CR | Anneliese Seonbuchner (FRG) | 11.2 | Pam Seaborne (GBR) | 11.3 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Rimma Uliskina Maria Itkina Irina Turova | 45.8 CR | West Germany Irmgard Egert Charlotte Bohmer Irene Brutting Maria Sander | 46.3 | Italy Maria Musso Giuseppina Leone Letizia Bertoni Milena Greppi | 46.6 |
| High jump |
Thelma Hopkins (GBR) | 1.67 m CR | .svg.png){kind=small} Iolanda Balaş (ROU) | 1.65 m | Olga Modrachová (TCH) | 1.63 m |
| Long jump |
Jean Desforges (GBR) | 6.04 m CR | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 5.93 m | Elżbieta Duńska (POL) | 5.83 m |
| Shot put |
Galina Zybina (URS) | 15.65 m CR | Maria Kuznetsova (URS) | 14.99 m | Tamara Tyshkevich (URS) | 14.78 m |
| Discus throw |
Nina Ponomaryeva (URS) | 48.02 m | Irina Beglyakova (URS) | 45.79 m | Galina Zybina (URS) | 44.77 m |
| Javelin throw |
Dana Zátopková (TCH) | 52.91 m CR | Virve Roolaid (URS) | 49.94 m | Nadezhda Konyayeva (URS) | 49.49 m |
| Pentathlon |
Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 4526 pts CR | Maria Sander (FRG) | 4485 pts | Maria Sturm (FRG) | 4357 pts |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Soviet Union | 16 | 11 | 8 | 35 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | Hungary | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 5 | West Germany | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Finland | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | Sweden | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8= | France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8= | Poland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8= | Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12= | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12= |  Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12= | Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12= | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 689 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 686 as published.[7]
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References
- ↑ European Games Start Today - Russia Favorites, Glasgow Herald, August 25, 1954, p. 9, retrieved August 27, 2014
- ↑ Upset in Berne Marathon - European Games, Glasgow Herald, August 26, 1954, p. 9, retrieved August 27, 2014
- ↑ Britain's First Gold Medal - European Athletics, Glasgow Herald, August 27, 1954, p. 4, retrieved August 27, 2014
- ↑ Russian Athletes' Day, Glasgow Herald, August 28, 1954, p. 2, retrieved August 27, 2014
- ↑ European Games Win for Bannister _ Russia's Three World Records, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1954, p. 9, retrieved August 27, 2014
- ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
- "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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