1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

None Men's 800 metres European Athletics Championships 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. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 377–384 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold Lajos Szentgáli HUN 1949Silver Lucien De Muynck BELBronze Audun Boysen NOR Results Final 28 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Lajos Szentgáli HUN 1949 1:47.1 CR NR Lucien De Muynck BEL 1:47.3 NR Audun Boysen NOR 1:47.4 NR 4 Derek Johnson GBR 1:47.4 5 Roger Moens BEL 1:47.8 6 Gérard Rasquin LUX 1:51.4 7 Tage Ekfeldt SWE 1:53.8 8 Ron Delany IRL 2:03.5 Semi-finals 27 August Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Lajos Szentgáli HUN 1949 1:50.0 CR Q 2 Ron Delany IRL 1:50.2 NR Q 3 Lucien De Muynck BEL 1:50.3 Q 4 Tage Ekfeldt SWE 1:50.3 Q 5 Edmund Potrzebowski POL 1:51.2 6 Brian Hewson GBR 1:51.2 7 Olaf Lawrenz FRG 1:51.4 8 Urpo Vähäranta FIN 1:51.4 Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Audun Boysen NOR 1:50.6 Q 2 Roger Moens BEL 1:50.7 Q 3 Derek Johnson GBR 1:51.0 Q 4 Gérard Rasquin LUX 1:51.5 Q 5 René Djian FRA 1:51.8 6 Friedel Stracke FRG 1:52.3 7 Oleg Ageyev URS 1936 1:52.5 8 István Bárkányi HUN 1949 1:52.8 Heats 25 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Olaf Lawrenz FRG 1:52.0 Q 2 Lucien De Muynck BEL 1:52.2 Q 3 István Bárkányi HUN 1949 1:52.4 Q 4 Tage Ekfeldt SWE 1:52.4 Q 5 Tauno Kontio FIN 1:52.8 6 Ludvík Liška TCH 1:53.2 7 Alfred Lasch AUT 1:55.4 8 Manuel Macías ESP 1945 1:56.7 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Lajos Szentgáli HUN 1949 1:51.8 Q 2 Derek Johnson GBR 1:51.8 Q 3 Edmund Potrzebowski POL 1:52.3 Q 4 René Djian FRA 1:52.8 Q 5 Josef Steger SUI 1:53.5 6 Ekrem Koçak TUR 1:56.2 Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Brian Hewson GBR 1:50.2 CR Q 2 Audun Boysen NOR 1:50.3 Q 3 Gérard Rasquin LUX 1:51.6 Q 4 Oleg Ageyev URS 1936 1:51.7 Q 5 Evangelos Depastas GRE old 1:52.7 6 Hugo Wallkamm SUI 1:55.1 7 Patrick El Mabrouk FRA 1:56.0 8 Ernst Suppan AUT 1:58.4 9 Ünal Somuncuoğlu TUR 2:02.6 Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Roger Moens BEL 1:51.5 Q 2 Ron Delany IRL 1:51.8 Q 3 Friedel Stracke FRG 1:52.1 Q 4 Urpo Vähäranta FIN 1:52.2 Q 5 Hans Ring SWE 1:52.7 6 Georgiy Ivakin URS 1936 1:53.9 7 Dušan Čikel TCH 1:54.2 8 Miloje Grujić SFR Yugoslavia 1:55.7 Participation According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event. 22em AUT (2) BEL (2) TCH (2) FIN (2) FRA (2) GRE old (1) HUN 1949 (2) IRL (1) LUX (1) NOR (1) POL (1) URS 1936 (2) ESP 1945 (1) SWE (2) SUI (2) TUR (2) GBR (2) FRG (2) SFR Yugoslavia (1) References Category:800 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships