The 5th European Athletics Championships were held at Stadion Neufeld from 25–29 August 1954 in the Swiss capital Bern. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.

Medal summary

Complete results were published.

Men

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|||10.5 =

|||10.6

|||10.7

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|||20.9

|||21.1

|||21.2

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|||46.6

|||47.0

|||47.6

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|||1:47.1

|||1:47.3

|||1:47.4

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|||3:43.8

|||3:44.4

|||3:45.4

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|||13:56.6

|||14:08.8

|||14:10.2

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|||28:58.0

|||29:25.8

|||29:27.6

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|||14.4

|||14.6

|||14.7

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|||50.5

|||50.8

|||51.5

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|||8:49.6

|||8:52.4

|||8:53.2

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|<br>László Zarándi<br>Géza Varasdi<br>György Csányi<br>Béla Goldoványi||40.6

|<br>Kenneth Box<br>George Ellis<br>Ken Jones<br>Brian Shenton||40.8

|<br>Boris Tokarev<br>Viktor Ryabov<br>Levan Sanadze<br>Leonid Bartenev||40.9

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|<br>Claude Haarhoff<br>Jacques Degats<br>Jean-Paul Martin du Gard<br>Jean-Pierre Goudeau||3:08.7

|<br>Hans Geister<br>Helmut Drehen<br>Heinz Ulzheimer<br>Karl-Friedrich Haas||3:08.8

|<br>Raimo Graeffe<br>Ossi Mildh<br>Rolf Back<br>Voitto Hellstén||3:11.5

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|||45:01.8

|||45:53.0

|||46:21.8

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|||4:22:11.2

|||4:25:07.4

|||4:31:32.2

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|||2:24:51.6

|||2:24:55.8

|||2:25:26.6

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|||2.02 m

|||1.98 m

|||1.96 m

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|rowspan=2|

|rowspan=2|||rowspan=2|4.40 m

|rowspan=2|||rowspan=2|4.40 m

|||4.30 m

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|||4.30 m

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|||7.51 m

|||7.46 m

|||7.41 m

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|||15.90 m

|||15.17 m

|||15.10 m

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|||17.20 m

|||16.69 m

|||16.27 m

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|||53.44 m

|||53.34 m

|||51.58 m

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|||76.35 m

|||74.61 m

|||73.38 m

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|||63.34 m

|||61.07 m

|||59.72 m

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|||6752 pts

|||6424 pts

|||6263 pts

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Women

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|||11.8

|||11.9

|||11.9

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|||24.3

|||24.4

|||24.4

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|||2:08.8

|||2:09.8

|||2:11.2

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|||11.0

|||11.2

|||11.3

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|<br>Vera Krepkina<br>Rimma Uliskina<br>Maria Itkina<br>Irina Turova||45.8

|<br>Irmgard Egert<br>Charlotte Bohmer<br>Irene Brutting<br>Maria Sander||46.3

|<br>Maria Musso<br>Giuseppina Leone<br>Letizia Bertoni<br>Milena Greppi||46.6

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|||1.67 m

|||1.65 m

|||1.63 m

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|||6.04 m

|||5.93 m

|||5.83 m

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|||15.65 m

|||14.99 m

|||14.78 m

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|||48.02 m

|||45.79 m

|||44.77 m

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|||52.91 m

|||49.94 m

|||49.49 m

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|||4526 pts

|||4485 pts

|||4357 pts

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Medal table

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 689 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 686 as published.

  • (25)
  • (29)
  • (9)
  • (42)
  • (7)
  • (31)
  • (49)
  • (7)
  • (41)
  • (7)
  • (3)
  • (24)
  • (4)
  • (2)
  • (12)
  • (13)
  • (35)
  • (9)
  • (24)
  • (9)
  • (68)
  • Spain (4)
  • (37)
  • (50)
  • (16)
  • (46)
  • (62)
  • (24)

References

  • EAA