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1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

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
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
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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[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.

 Belgium (2)

 Czechoslovakia (2)

 Finland (2)

 France (2)

 Greece (1)

 Hungary (2)

 Ireland (1)

 Luxembourg (1)

 Norway (1)

 Poland (1)

 Soviet Union (2)

 Spain (1)

 Sweden (2)

  Switzerland (2)

 Turkey (2)

 Great Britain (2)

 West Germany (2)

 Yugoslavia (1)

References[edit]