1954 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres at the European Athletics Championships

The women's 800 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25 and 27 August 1954.

Medalists

Gold	Nina Otkalenko Soviet Union
Silver	Diane Leather Great Britain
Bronze	Lyudmila Lysenko Soviet Union

Results

Final

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nina Otkalenko	Soviet Union	2:08.8	CR
	Diane Leather	Great Britain	2:09.8
	Lyudmila Lysenko	Soviet Union	2:11.2
4	Aranka Kazi	Hungary	2:11.9
5	Bożena Pestka	Poland	2:12.6
6	Valerie Winn	Great Britain	2:13.3
7	Anne Oliver	Great Britain	2:13.3
8	Bedřiška Müllerová	Czechoslovakia	2:13.6
9	Anna Bácskai	Hungary	2:14.6

Heats

25 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nina Otkalenko	Soviet Union	2:09.9	Q
2	Anne Oliver	Great Britain	2:11.8	Q
3	Bedřiška Müllerová	Czechoslovakia	2:11.8	NR Q
4	Ágnes Oros	Hungary	2:11.8
5	Inga Nyqvist	Finland	2:17.2

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aranka Kazi	Hungary	2:11.8	Q
2	Bożena Pestka	Poland	2:12.0	NR Q
3	Valerie Winn	Great Britain	2:12.4	Q
4	Nina Cernoscek	Soviet Union	2:12.7
5	Marianne Weiss	West Germany	2:15.6	NR
6	Odile Monguillon	France	2:17.3
7	Maria Kessels	Belgium	2:33.7

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lyudmila Lysenko	Soviet Union	2:08.8	CR Q
2	Diane Leather	Great Britain	2:08.9	Q
3	Anna Bácskai	Hungary	2:12.5	Q
4	Claude Laurent	France	2:14.7
5	Loredana Simonetti	Italy	2:16.5	NR
6	Isolde Beichler	West Germany	2:17.6
7	Ludmila Dunst	Austria	2:24.7

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

• Austria (1)
• Belgium (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• Finland (1)
• France (2)
• Hungary (3)
• Italy (1)
• Poland (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Great Britain (3)
• West Germany (2)