1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

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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 place, gold medalist(s) Lajos Szentgáli  Hungary 1:47.1 CR NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lucien De Muynck  Belgium 1:47.3 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

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  Great Britain 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  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

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  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

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

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

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