1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 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 1500 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26 and 29 August 1954.[1]

Medalists

Gold Roger Bannister
 United Kingdom
Silver Gunnar Nielsen
 Denmark
Bronze Stanislav Jungwirth
 Czechoslovakia

Results

Final

29 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Roger Bannister  United Kingdom 3:43.8 CR NR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Gunnar Nielsen  Denmark 3:44.4 NR
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Stanislav Jungwirth  Czechoslovakia 3:45.4
4 Ingvar Ericsson  Sweden 3:46.2
5 Werner Lueg  West Germany 3:46.4
6 Sándor Iharos  Hungary 3:47.0
7 Denis Johansson  Finland 3:47.4
8 Günter Dohrow  West Germany 3:48.2
9 Ian Boyd  United Kingdom 3:49.2
10 Jorma Kakko  Finland 3:51.8
11 Veliša Mugoša  Yugoslavia DNF
12 Alfred Langenus  Belgium DNS

Heats

26 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Günter Dohrow  West Germany 3:51.0 Q
2 Stanislav Jungwirth  Czechoslovakia 3:51.2 Q
3 Roger Bannister  United Kingdom 3:51.8 Q
4 Alfred Langenus  Belgium 3:51.8 Q
5 Andrej Vipotnik  Yugoslavia 3:52.2
6 Edmund Potrzebowski  Poland 3:52.2
7 Vladimir Bagreyev  Soviet Union 3:53.0
8 August Sutter   Switzerland 3:54.4
9 Ekrem Koçak  Turkey 3:57.4
10 Richard Badet  France 3:57.8

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Veliša Mugoša  Yugoslavia 3:51.0 Q
2 Sándor Iharos  Hungary 3:51.2 Q
3 Ingvar Ericsson  Sweden 3:51.4 Q
4 Jorma Kakko  Finland 3:51.4 Q
5 Roger Müller  Luxembourg 3:52.0
6 Gaston Reiff  Belgium 3:57.0
7 Evangelos Depastas  Greece 3:58.2
8 Heinz Thoet   Switzerland 4:01.0
9 Manuel Macías  Spain 4:10.6

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Werner Lueg  West Germany 3:53.2 Q
2 Ian Boyd  United Kingdom 3:53.2 Q
3 Gunnar Nielsen  Denmark 3:53.6 Q
4 Denis Johansson  Finland 3:53.8 Q
5 Antoine Vincendon  France 3:54.6
6 István Rózsavölgyi  Hungary 3:54.6
7 Alexander Zvolensky  Czechoslovakia 3:55.2
8 Kazimierz Żbikowski  Poland 3:56.6
9 Dimitrios Konstantinidis  Greece 3:57.6
10 Turhan Göker  Turkey 4:01.2

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

References

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