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1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

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Men's 1500 metres
at the 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.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Roger Bannister
 Great Britain
Silver Gunnar Nielsen
 Denmark
Bronze Stanislav Jungwirth
 Czechoslovakia

Results

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Final

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29 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Roger Bannister  Great Britain 3:43.8 CR NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gunnar Nielsen  Denmark 3:44.4 NR
3rd place, 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  Great Britain 3:49.2
10 Jorma Kakko  Finland 3:51.8
Veliša Mugoša  Yugoslavia DNF
Alfred Langenus  Belgium DNS

Heats

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26 August

Heat 1

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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  Great Britain 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

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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

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Werner Lueg  West Germany 3:53.2 Q
2 Ian Boyd  Great Britain 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

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

References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014