European Athletics Championships 1954/200 m men

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	30 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalist
gold	Heinz Fütterer ( FRG )
silver	Ardalion Ignatiev ( URS )
bronze	George Ellis ( GBR )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's 200-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1954 was held on August 28 and 29, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

The European champion was the German Heinz Fütterer , who won his second gold medal at these European championships. Second place went to the 400-meter European champion Ardalion Ignatiev from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to the Briton George Ellis .

Records

Existing records

World record	20.6 s	Andy Stanfield	Los Angeles , USA	June 28, 1952
European record	21.2 s	Martinus Osendarp	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938
Championship record

Comment on world and European
records : Since 1951, only those records have been recognized that were set on tracks with a full curve. The two Americans Jesse Owens (1935) and Mel Patton (1948) achieved 20.3 s on straight lanes . The European record holder on a straight track was the German Helmut Körnig with 20.9 s from 1928.

Record improvement

European champion Heinz Fütterer improved the existing European record and thus also the EM record twice:  

• 21.1s - semi-finals on August 28th
• 20.9 s - final on August 29th

Preliminary round

August 28, 1954, 3:15 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	George Ellis	Great Britain	21.3
2	Jan Carlsson	Sweden	21.3 NO
3	Zdobysław Stawczyk	Poland	21.5
4th	Gert Lemmes	Saarland	22.0
5	Todori Yordanidis	Greece	22.5

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ardalion Ignatiev	Soviet Union	21.5
2	Ilarie Magdas	Romania	21.9
3	Kaj Månsson	Sweden	21.9
4th	Angel Gavrilov	Bulgaria	22.3
5	Kurt Heidrich	Saarland	22.5
DSQ	Leonhard Pohl	BR Germany

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Fütterer	BR Germany	21.4
2	Aad van Hardeveld	Netherlands	21.6
3	Carlos Germonprez	Belgium	22.0
4th	Josef Wimmer	Austria	22.1

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.6
2	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	21.8
3	Angel Kolev	Bulgaria	21.9
4th	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	22.2
5	Daniel Meneux	France	22.3
6th	Muzaffer Selvi	Turkey	22.5

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	21.7
2	Václav Janeček	Czechoslovakia	21.7
3	József Senkei	Hungary	22.0
4th	Jacques Vercruysse	Belgium	22.0
5	Pierre Coelembier	France	22.1
6th	Willy Eichenberger	Switzerland	22.4

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Theo Saat	Netherlands	21.8
2	Hans Wehrli-Frei	Switzerland	21.9
3	Alexandru Stoenescu	Romania	22.4

Semifinals

August 28, 1954, 5:20 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Yuri Konovalov was not strong enough here to survive the semi-finals and was eliminated as fifth of his run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	George Ellis	Great Britain	21.3
2	Ardalion Ignatiev	Soviet Union	21.3
3	Václav Janecek	Czechoslovakia	21.4
4th	Aad van Hardeveld	Netherlands	21.4
5	Hans Wehrli-Frei	Switzerland	21.6
6th	Ilarie Magdas	Romania	21.8

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Fütterer	BR Germany	21.1 ER
2	Jan Carlsson	Sweden	21.4
3	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.4
4th	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	21.6
5	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	21.7
6th	Theo Saat	Netherlands	22.1

final

Heinz Fütterer - double European champion with a European record

August 29, 1954, 3:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Fütterer	BR Germany	20.9 ER
2	Ardalion Ignatiev	Soviet Union	21.1
3	George Ellis	Great Britain	21.2
4th	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.3
5	Jan Carlsson	Sweden	21.5
6th	Václav Janecek	Czechoslovakia	21.9

• 

  For defending champion Brian Shenton - here with his success four years earlier - it was enough to finish fourth this time

• 

  Jan Carlsson - with a national record in the run-up - was fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 4, 2019
• Men 200m European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 4, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 4, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 4, 2019

Video

• Interview with Heinz Fütterer - Current Sports Studio 80s , published on June 2, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on April 4, 2019

References and comments