1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

Events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
10,000 m track walk	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 400 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25, 26, and 27 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Ardalion Ignatyev Soviet Union
Silver	Voitto Hellstén Finland
Bronze	Zoltán Adámik Hungary

Results

Final

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Ardalion Ignatyev	Soviet Union	46.6	CR NR
02 !	Voitto Hellstén	Finland	47.0	NR
03 !	Zoltán Adámik	Hungary	47.6	NR
4	Karl-Friedrich Haas	West Germany	47.6
5	Jean-Jacques Hegg	Switzerland	47.8
6	Jacques Degats	France	DQ

Semi-finals

26 August

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ardalion Ignatyev	Soviet Union	47.0	CR Q
2	Voitto Hellstén	Finland	47.1	NR Q
3	Jacques Degats	France	47.8	Q
4	Vincenzo Lombardo	Italy	48.4
5	Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	Sweden	48.8
6	Hans Geister	West Germany	DQ

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karl-Friedrich Haas	West Germany	47.9	Q
2	Zoltán Adámik	Hungary	48.1	Q
3	Jean-Jacques Hegg	Switzerland	48.1	Q
4	Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard	France	48.2
5	Alan Dick	United Kingdom	48.3
6	Rolf Back	Finland	48.9

Heats

25 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ardalion Ignatyev	Soviet Union	47.9	Q
2	Vincenzo Lombardo	Italy	48.2	Q
3	Gerard Mach	Poland	48.9
4	José Fórmiga	Spain	50.3
5	Gerald Wicher	Austria	51.8

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans Geister	West Germany	47.9	Q
2	Rolf Back	Finland	48.4	Q
3	Edmunds Pīlāgs	Soviet Union	48.8
4	Charles Cuvelier	Belgium	50.3

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Voitto Hellstén	Finland	47.7	Q
2	Karl-Friedrich Haas	West Germany	47.8	Q
3	Peter Fryer	United Kingdom	48.0
4	Rudolf Haidegger	Austria	51.4

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard	France	48.4	Q
2	Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	Sweden	48.7	Q
3	Vasilios Syllis	Greece	48.8
4	Lech Sierek	Poland	49.6

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Zoltán Adámik	Hungary	47.9	Q
2	Alan Dick	United Kingdom	48.4	Q
3	Gösta Brännström	Sweden	48.7
4	René Weber	Switzerland	49.3

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Jacques Hegg	Switzerland	47.7	Q
2	Jacques Degats	France	48.5	Q
3	Marcello Dani	Italy	49.1
4	Egon Solymossy	Hungary	49.4

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

Austria (2)
Belgium (1)
Finland (2)
France (2)

Greece (1)
Hungary (2)
Italy (2)
Poland (2)

Soviet Union (2)
Spain (1)
Sweden (2)

References

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

400 metres at the European Athletics Championships

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