1954 European Athletics Championships
| 5th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | 25 – 29 August |
| Host city | Bern, Switzerland |
| Venue | Stadion Neufeld |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 35 |
| Participation | 686 athletes from 28 nations |
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
[edit]Complete results were published.[6]
Men
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |  Zoltán Adamik (HUN) | 47.6 |
| 800 metres | Lajos Szentgáli (HUN) | 1:47.1 CR |  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 | Hungary László 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 |
| Jukka Piironen (FIN) | 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
[edit]Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 16 | 11 | 8 | 35 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG) | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Finland (FIN) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 11 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Romania (ROM) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 35 | 35 | 36 | 106 | |
Participation
[edit]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]
Austria (25)
Belgium (29)
Bulgaria (9)
Czechoslovakia (42)
Denmark (7)
Finland (31)
France (49)
Greece (7)
Hungary (41)
Iceland (7)
Ireland (3)
Italy (24)
Liechtenstein (4)
Luxembourg (2)
Netherlands (12)
Norway (13)
Poland (35)
Portugal (9)
Romania (24)
Saar (9)
Soviet Union (68)
Spain (4)
Sweden (37)
Switzerland (50)
Turkey (16)
Great Britain (46)
West Germany (62)
Yugoslavia (24)
References
[edit]- ^ 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.