# 1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25 and 26 August 1954.

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.
* Austria (1)
* Belgium (2)
* Bulgaria (2)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* France (2)
* Greece (1)
* Hungary (2)
* Iceland (2)
* Netherlands (2)
* Poland (2)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (2)
* Saar (2)
* Soviet Union (2)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (2)
* Turkey (2)
* Great Britain (2)
* West Germany (2)
* Yugoslavia (2)

## Results
### Heats

25 August

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | George Ellis | Great Britain | 10.9 | Q |
| 2 | Jan Carlsson | Sweden | 10.9 | Q |
| 3 | Angel Kolev | Bulgaria | 10.9 | |
| 4 | Kurt Heidrich | Saar | 11.2 | |
| 5 | József Senkei | Hungary | 11.2 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Heinz Fütterer | West Germany | 10.7 | Q |
| 2 | Jacques Derderian | France | 11.0 | Q |
| 3 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 11.0 | |
| 4 | Aleksandar Benjak | Yugoslavia | 11.1 | |
| | Nikodem Goździalski | Poland | DQ | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Leonhard Pohl | West Germany | 10.8 | Q |
| 2 | Ken Jones | Great Britain | 10.9 | Q |
| 3 | Levan Sanadze | Soviet Union | 11.0 | |
| 4 | Jacques Vercruysse | Belgium | 11.1 | |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Theo Saat | Netherlands | 10.9 | Q |
| 2 | Ilarie Magdas | Romania | 11.0 | Q |
| | Gert Lemmes | Saar | DQ | |

#### Heat 5

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | László Zarándi | Hungary | 10.8 | Q |
| 2 | Hayo Rulander | Netherlands | 11.0 | Q |
| 3 | Roland Vercruysse | Belgium | 11.2 | |
| 4 | Angel Gavrilov | Bulgaria | 11.2 | |
| 5 | Tomas Paquete | Portugal | 11.2 | |

#### Heat 6

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | René Bonino | France | 10.8 | Q |
| 2 | Hans Wehrli | Switzerland | 10.9 | Q |
| 3 | Guðmundur Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 11.2 | |
| 4 | Alexandru Stoenescu | Romania | 11.2 | |

#### Heat 7

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Zdobysław Stawczyk | Poland | 11.0 | Q |
| 2 | Viktor Ryabov | Soviet Union | 11.0 | Q |
| 3 | Josef Wimmer | Austria | 11.1 | |
| | Muzaffer Selvi | Turkey | DQ | |

#### Heat 8

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Václav Janeček | Czechoslovakia | 11.0 | Q |
| 2 | Ásmundur Bjarnason | Iceland | 11.1 | Q |
| 3 | Milovan Jovančić | Yugoslavia | 11.2 | |
| 4 | Joseph Huber | Switzerland | 11.3 | |
| 5 | Todori Yordanidis | Turkey | 11.5 | |

### Semi-finals

26 August

#### Semi-final 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Heinz Fütterer | West Germany | 10.5 | Q |
| 2 | Jan Carlsson | Sweden | 10.7 | Q |
| 3 | Hayo Rulander | Netherlands | 10.7 | |
| 4 | Ken Jones | Great Britain | 10.7 | |
| 5 | Ásmundur Bjarnason | Iceland | 10.9 | |
| | Jacques Derderian | France | DNS | |

#### Semi-final 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Leonhard Pohl | West Germany | 10.7 | Q |
| 2 | George Ellis | Great Britain | 10.7 | Q |
| 3 | Viktor Ryabov | Soviet Union | 10.7 | |
| 4 | Hans Wehrli | Switzerland | 10.7 | |
| 5 | Ilarie Magdas | Romania | 10.9 | |

#### Semi-final 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | René Bonino | France | 10.7 | Q |
| 2 | Theo Saat | Netherlands | 10.8 | Q |
| 3 | László Zarándi | Hungary | 10.9 | |
| 4 | Václav Janeček | Czechoslovakia | 10.9 | |
| 5 | Zdobysław Stawczyk | Poland | 11.0 | |

### Final

26 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Heinz Fütterer | West Germany | 10.5 |
| | René Bonino | France | 10.6 |
| | George Ellis | Great Britain | 10.7 |
| 4 | Leonhard Pohl | West Germany | 10.7 |
| 5 | Jan Carlsson | Sweden | 10.7 |
| 6 | Theo Saat | Netherlands | 11.1 |