1954 European Athletics Championships – Men'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 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

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

Results

Final

28 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Lajos Szentgáli  Hungary 1:47.1 CR NR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Lucien De Muynck  Belgium 1:47.3 NR
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Audun Boysen  Norway 1:47.4 NR
4 Derek Johnson  United Kingdom 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

27 August

Semi-final 1

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  United Kingdom 1:51.2
7 Olaf Lawrenz  West Germany 1:51.4
8 Urpo Vähäranta  Finland 1:51.4

Semi-final 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Audun Boysen  Norway 1:50.6 Q
2 Roger Moens  Belgium 1:50.7 Q
3 Derek Johnson  United Kingdom 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

25 August

Heat 1

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

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Lajos Szentgáli  Hungary 1:51.8 Q
2 Derek Johnson  United Kingdom 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

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Brian Hewson  United Kingdom 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

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

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

References

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