1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

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 hurdles at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26, 28, and 29 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Anatoliy Yulin Soviet Union
Silver	Yuriy Lituyev Soviet Union
Bronze	Sven-Oswald Mildh Finland

Results

Final

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Anatoliy Yulin	Soviet Union	50.5	CR
02 !	Yuriy Lituyev	Soviet Union	50.8
03 !	Sven-Oswald Mildh	Finland	51.5	NR
4	Guy Cury	France	51.8
5	Bob Shaw	United Kingdom	52.3	NR
6	Antal Lippay	Hungary	52.4	NR

Semi-finals

28 August

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anatoliy Yulin	Soviet Union	51.6	Q
2	Guy Cury	France	51.7	Q
3	Sven-Oswald Mildh	Finland	51.8	NR Q
4	Sven Olov Eriksson	Sweden	52.0
5	Armando Filiput	Italy	52.3
6	Kurt Bonah	West Germany	53.4

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yuriy Lituyev	Soviet Union	52.3	Q
2	Bob Shaw	United Kingdom	52.5	Q
3	Antal Lippay	Hungary	52.6	Q
4	Robert Bart	France	52.7
5	Ilie Savel	Romania	53.3
6	Lars Ylander	Sweden	54.9

Heats

26 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sven Olov Eriksson	Sweden	53.1	Q
2	Armando Filiput	Italy	54.0	Q
3	Jan Borgersen	Norway	54.8
4	José Fórmiga	Spain	55.3

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yuriy Lituyev	Soviet Union	51.1	CR Q
2	Kurt Bonah	West Germany	54.0	Q
3	Gerald Wicher	Austria	55.9
4	Aydin Tunali	Turkey	60.2

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anatoliy Yulin	Soviet Union	52.1	Q
2	Robert Bart	France	52.7	Q
3	Harry Kane	United Kingdom	52.7
4	Karl Borgula	Switzerland	55.3

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bob Shaw	United Kingdom	53.4	Q
2	Ilie Savel	Romania	54.0	Q
3	Josef Kost	Switzerland	54.4
4	Gianfranco Fantuzzi	Italy	55.2

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sven-Oswald Mildh	Finland	53.6	Q
2	Lars Ylander	Sweden	53.8	Q
3	Wolfgang Fischer	West Germany	53.9
4	Gheorghe Stanel	Romania	55.3

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Guy Cury	France	52.9	Q
2	Antal Lippay	Hungary	53.2	Q
3	Dirk Stoclet	Belgium	54.5
4	Rudolf Haidegger	Austria	55.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

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

Hungary (1)
Italy (2)
Norway (1)
Romania (2)

References

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

400 metres hurdles at the European Athletics Championships

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