1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25, 27, and 28 August 1954.[1]

Medalists edit

Gold Lajos Szentgáli
  Hungary
Silver Lucien De Muynck
  Belgium
Bronze Audun Boysen
  Norway

Results edit

Final edit

28 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Lajos Szentgáli   Hungary 1:47.1 CR NR
  Lucien De Muynck   Belgium 1:47.3 NR
  Audun Boysen   Norway 1:47.4 NR
4 Derek Johnson   Great Britain 1:47.4
5 Roger Moens   Belgium 1:47.8
6 Gérard Rasquin   Luxembourg 1:51.4
7 Tage Ekfeldt   Sweden 1:53.8
8 Ron Delany   Ireland 2:03.5

Semi-finals edit

27 August

Semi-final 1 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Lajos Szentgáli   Hungary 1:50.0 CR Q
2 Ron Delany   Ireland 1:50.2 NR Q
3 Lucien De Muynck   Belgium 1:50.3 Q
4 Tage Ekfeldt   Sweden 1:50.3 Q
5 Edmund Potrzebowski   Poland 1:51.2
6 Brian Hewson   Great Britain 1:51.2
7 Olaf Lawrenz   West Germany 1:51.4
8 Urpo Vähäranta   Finland 1:51.4

Semi-final 2 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Audun Boysen   Norway 1:50.6 Q
2 Roger Moens   Belgium 1:50.7 Q
3 Derek Johnson   Great Britain 1:51.0 Q
4 Gérard Rasquin   Luxembourg 1:51.5 Q
5 René Djian   France 1:51.8
6 Friedel Stracke   West Germany 1:52.3
7 Oleg Ageyev   Soviet Union 1:52.5
8 István Bárkányi   Hungary 1:52.8

Heats edit

25 August

Heat 1 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Olaf Lawrenz   West Germany 1:52.0 Q
2 Lucien De Muynck   Belgium 1:52.2 Q
3 István Bárkányi   Hungary 1:52.4 Q
4 Tage Ekfeldt   Sweden 1:52.4 Q
5 Tauno Kontio   Finland 1:52.8
6 Ludvík Liška   Czechoslovakia 1:53.2
7 Alfred Lasch   Austria 1:55.4
8 Manuel Macías   Spain 1:56.7

Heat 2 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Lajos Szentgáli   Hungary 1:51.8 Q
2 Derek Johnson   Great Britain 1:51.8 Q
3 Edmund Potrzebowski   Poland 1:52.3 Q
4 René Djian   France 1:52.8 Q
5 Josef Steger    Switzerland 1:53.5
6 Ekrem Koçak   Turkey 1:56.2

Heat 3 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Brian Hewson   Great Britain 1:50.2 CR Q
2 Audun Boysen   Norway 1:50.3 Q
3 Gérard Rasquin   Luxembourg 1:51.6 Q
4 Oleg Ageyev   Soviet Union 1:51.7 Q
5 Evangelos Depastas   Greece 1:52.7
6 Hugo Wallkamm    Switzerland 1:55.1
7 Patrick El Mabrouk   France 1:56.0
8 Ernst Suppan   Austria 1:58.4
9 Ünal Somuncuoğlu   Turkey 2:02.6

Heat 4 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Roger Moens   Belgium 1:51.5 Q
2 Ron Delany   Ireland 1:51.8 Q
3 Friedel Stracke   West Germany 1:52.1 Q
4 Urpo Vähäranta   Finland 1:52.2 Q
5 Hans Ring   Sweden 1:52.7
6 Georgiy Ivakin   Soviet Union 1:53.9
7 Dušan Čikel   Czechoslovakia 1:54.2
8 Miloje Grujić   Yugoslavia 1:55.7

Participation edit

According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

References edit

  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014