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1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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Men's 4 x 400 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 28 and 29 August 1954.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Pierre Haarhoff
Jacques Degats
Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard
Jean-Pierre Goudeau
 France
Silver Hans Geister
Helmut Dreher
Heinz Ulzheimer
Karl-Friedrich Haas
 West Germany
Bronze Ragnar Graeffe
Sven-Oswald Mildh
Rolf Back
Voitto Hellsten
 Finland

Results

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Final

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29 August

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France Pierre Haarhoff
Jacques Degats
Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard
Jean-Pierre Goudeau
3:08.7 CR NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  West Germany Hans Geister
Helmut Dreher
Heinz Ulzheimer
Karl-Friedrich Haas
3:08.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Finland Ragnar Graeffe
Sven-Oswald Mildh
Rolf Back
Voitto Hellsten
3:11.5
4  Sweden Gösta Brännström
Uno Elofsson
Tage Ekfeldt
Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
3:12.5
5  Hungary Péter Karádi
Lajos Szentgáli
Egon Solymossy
Zoltán Adamik
3:26.1
 Great Britain Peter Higgins
Alan Dick
Peter Fryer
Derek Johnson
DQ

Heats

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28 August

Heat 1

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  Hungary Péter Karádi
Lajos Szentgáli
Egon Solymossy
Zoltán Adamik
3:12.0 Q
2  Sweden Gösta Brännström
Uno Elofsson
Tage Ekfeldt
Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
3:12.8 Q
3  Soviet Union Oleg Ageyev
Edmunds Pīlāgs
Timofey Shevchenko
Yuriy Bitter
3:14.1
4  Austria Gerald Wicher
Rudolf Haidegger
Hans Muchitsch
Ernst Suppan
3:25.7

Heat 2

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  West Germany Hans Geister
Helmut Dreher
Heinz Ulzheimer
Karl-Friedrich Haas
3:09.7 CR Q
2  France Pierre Haarhoff
Jacques Degats
Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard
Jean-Pierre Goudeau
3:11.2 Q
3   Switzerland René Weber
Josef Steger
Ernst Vogel
Jean-Jacques Hegg
3:13.4

Heat 3

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  Great Britain Peter Higgins
Alan Dick
Peter Fryer
Derek Johnson
3:10.8 Q
2  Finland Ragnar Graeffe
Sven-Oswald Mildh
Rolf Back
Voitto Hellsten
3:11.3 NR Q
3  Poland Stanisław Swatowski
Zbigniew Makomaski
Lech Sierek
Gerard Mach
3:13.1 NR
4  Belgium Charles Cuvelier
Roger Moens
Lucien De Muynck
Dirk Stoclet
3:15.9

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 44 athletes from 11 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