# 1954 European Athletics Championships

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.

## Medal summary

Complete results were published.

### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Heinz Fütterer (FRG) | 10.5 =CR | René Bonino (FRA) | 10.6 | George Ellis (GBR) | 10.7 |
| 200 metres details | Heinz Fütterer (FRG) | 20.9 CR | Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) | 21.1 | George Ellis (GBR) | 21.2 |
| 400 metres details | Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) | 46.6 CR | Voitto Hellstén (FIN) | 47.0 | Zoltán Adamik (HUN) | 47.6 |
| 800 metres details | Lajos Szentgáli (HUN) | 1:47.1 CR | Lucien De Muynck (BEL) | 1:47.3 | Audun Boysen (NOR) | 1:47.4 |
| 1500 metres details | Roger Bannister (GBR) | 3:43.8 CR | Gunnar Nielsen (DEN) | 3:44.4 | Stanislav Jungwirth (TCH) | 3:45.4 |
| 5000 metres details | Vladimir Kuts (URS) | 13:56.6 CR | Chris Chataway (GBR) | 14:08.8 | Emil Zátopek (TCH) | 14:10.2 |
| 10,000 metres details | Emil Zátopek (TCH) | 28:58.0 CR | József Kovács (HUN) | 29:25.8 | Frank Sando (GBR) | 29:27.6 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS) | 14.4 | Jack Parker (GBR) | 14.6 | Berthold Steines (FRG) | 14.7 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Anatoliy Yulin (URS) | 50.5 CR | Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 50.8 | Ossi Mildh (FIN) | 51.5 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Sándor Rozsnyói (HUN) | 8:49.6 CR | Olavi Rinteenpää (FIN) | 8:52.4 | Ernst Larsen (NOR) | 8:53.2 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | 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 details | 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 details | Josef Doležal (TCH) | 45:01.8 CR | Anatoliy Yegorov (URS) | 45:53.0 | Sergey Lobastov (URS) | 46:21.8 |
| 50 kilometres walk details | Vladimir Ukhov (URS) | 4:22:11.2 CR | Josef Doležal (TCH) | 4:25:07.4 | Antal Róka (HUN) | 4:31:32.2 |
| Marathon details | Veikko Karvonen (FIN) | 2:24:51.6 CR | Boris Grishayev (URS) | 2:24:55.8 | Ivan Filin (URS) | 2:25:26.6 |
| High jump details | Bengt Nilsson (SWE) | 2.02 m CR | Jiří Lanský (TCH) | 1.98 m | Jaroslav Kovář (TCH) | 1.96 m |
| Pole vault details | Eeles Landström (FIN) | 4.40 m CR | Ragnar Lundberg (SWE) | 4.40 m CR | Jeff Elliott (GBR) | 4.30 m |
| Pole vault details | Eeles Landström (FIN) | 4.40 m CR | Ragnar Lundberg (SWE) | 4.40 m CR | Jukka Piironen (FIN) | 4.30 m |
| Long jump details | Ödön Földessy (HUN) | 7.51 m | Zbigniew Iwański (POL) | 7.46 m | Ernest Wanko (FRA) | 7.41 m |
| Triple jump details | Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) | 15.90 m CR | Roger Norman (SWE) | 15.17 m | Martin Řehák (TCH) | 15.10 m |
| Shot put details | Jiří Skobla (TCH) | 17.20 m CR | Oto Grigalka (URS) | 16.69 m | Heino Heinaste (URS) | 16.27 m |
| Discus throw details | Adolfo Consolini (ITA) | 53.44 m | Giuseppe Tosi (ITA) | 53.34 m | József Szécsényi (HUN) | 51.58 m |
| Javelin throw details | Janusz Sidło (POL) | 76.35 m | Vladimir Kuznetsov (URS) | 74.61 m | Soini Nikkinen (FIN) | 73.38 m |
| Hammer throw details | Mikhail Krivonosov (URS) | 63.34 m CR | Sverre Strandli (NOR) | 61.07 m | József Csermák (HUN) | 59.72 m |
| Decathlon details | Vasili Kuznetsov (URS) | 6752 pts | Torbjörn Lassenius (FIN) | 6424 pts | Heinz Oberbeck (FRG) | 6263 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Irina Turova (URS) | 11.8 | Bertha van Duyne (NED) | 11.9 | Anne Pashley (GBR) | 11.9 |
| 200 metres details | Mariya Itkina (URS) | 24.3 | Irina Turova (URS) | 24.4 | Shirley Hampton (GBR) | 24.4 |
| 800 metres details | Nina Otkalenko (URS) | 2:08.8 CR | Diane Leather (GBR) | 2:09.8 | Lyudmila Lysenko (URS) | 2:11.2 |
| 80 metres hurdles details | Maria Golubnichaya (URS) | 11.0 CR | Anneliese Seonbuchner (FRG) | 11.2 | Pam Seaborne (GBR) | 11.3 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Rimma Uliskina Maria Itkina Irina Turova | 45.8 CR | West Germany Irmgard Egert Charlotte Bohmer Irene Brutting Maria Sander | 46.3 | Italy Maria Musso Giuseppina Leone Letizia Bertoni Milena Greppi | 46.6 |
| High jump details | Thelma Hopkins (GBR) | 1.67 m CR | Iolanda Balaş (ROU) | 1.65 m | Olga Modrachová (TCH) | 1.63 m |
| Long jump details | Jean Desforges (GBR) | 6.04 m CR | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 5.93 m | Elżbieta Duńska (POL) | 5.83 m |
| Shot put details | Galina Zybina (URS) | 15.65 m CR | Maria Kuznetsova (URS) | 14.99 m | Tamara Tyshkevich (URS) | 14.78 m |
| Discus throw details | Nina Ponomaryeva (URS) | 48.02 m | Irina Beglyakova (URS) | 45.79 m | Galina Zybina (URS) | 44.77 m |
| Javelin throw details | Dana Zátopková (TCH) | 52.91 m CR | Virve Roolaid (URS) | 49.94 m | Nadezhda Konyayeva (URS) | 49.49 m |
| Pentathlon details | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 4526 pts CR | Maria Sander (FRG) | 4485 pts | Maria Sturm (FRG) | 4357 pts |

## Medal table

| 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 |
| 8 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 35 | 35 | 36 | 106 |

## Participation

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.
* 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)