1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

None Men's 1500 metres European Athletics Championships 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. 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 Roger Bannister GBRSilver Gunnar Nielsen DENBronze Stanislav Jungwirth TCH Results Final 29 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Roger Bannister GBR 3:43.8 CR NR Gunnar Nielsen DEN 3:44.4 NR Stanislav Jungwirth TCH 3:45.4 4 Ingvar Ericsson SWE 3:46.2 5 Werner Lueg FRG 3:46.4 6 Sándor Iharos HUN 1949 3:47.0 7 Denis Johansson FIN 3:47.4 8 Günter Dohrow FRG 3:48.2 9 Ian Boyd GBR 3:49.2 10 Jorma Kakko FIN 3:51.8 11 Veliša Mugoša SFR Yugoslavia DNF 12 Alfred Langenus BEL DNS Heats 26 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Günter Dohrow FRG 3:51.0 Q 2 Stanislav Jungwirth TCH 3:51.2 Q 3 Roger Bannister GBR 3:51.8 Q 4 Alfred Langenus BEL 3:51.8 Q 5 Andrej Vipotnik SFR Yugoslavia 3:52.2 6 Edmund Potrzebowski POL 3:52.2 7 Vladimir Bagreyev URS 1936 3:53.0 8 August Sutter SUI 3:54.4 9 Ekrem Koçak TUR 3:57.4 10 Richard Badet FRA 3:57.8 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Veliša Mugoša SFR Yugoslavia 3:51.0 Q 2 Sándor Iharos HUN 1949 3:51.2 Q 3 Ingvar Ericsson SWE 3:51.4 Q 4 Jorma Kakko FIN 3:51.4 Q 5 Roger Müller LUX 3:52.0 6 Gaston Reiff BEL 3:57.0 7 Evangelos Depastas GRE old 3:58.2 8 Heinz Thoet SUI 4:01.0 9 Manuel Macías ESP 1945 4:10.6 Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Werner Lueg FRG 3:53.2 Q 2 Ian Boyd GBR 3:53.2 Q 3 Gunnar Nielsen DEN 3:53.6 Q 4 Denis Johansson FIN 3:53.8 Q 5 Antoine Vincendon FRA 3:54.6 6 István Rózsavölgyi HUN 1949 3:54.6 7 Alexander Zvolensky TCH 3:55.2 8 Kazimierz Żbikowski POL 3:56.6 9 Dimitrios Konstantinidis GRE old 3:57.6 10 Turhan Göker TUR 4:01.2 Participation According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event. 22em BEL (2) TCH (2) DEN (1) FIN (2) FRA (2) GRE old (2) HUN 1949 (2) LUX (1) POL (2) URS 1936 (1) ESP 1945 (1) SWE (1) SUI (2) TUR (2) GBR (2) FRG (2) SFR Yugoslavia (2) References Category:1500 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships