European Athletics Championships 1954/800 m women
5th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's 800-meter run |
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Stadion | Neufeld Stadium |
Participants | 20 athletes from 11 countries |
Competition phase | August 25th (preliminary) August 27th (final) |
Medalists | |
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Nina Otkalenko ( URS )
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Diane Leather ( GBR )
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Lyudmila Lysenko ( URS )
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The women's 800-meter run at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 27, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .
In this discipline there were two medals for runners from the USSR, gold and bronze. The European champion was the world record holder Nina Otkalenko . She won ahead of the British Diane Leather . Lyudmila Lysenko came in third .
Records
Existing records
World record | 2: 07.3 min |
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Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia ) | August 27, 1953 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | This competition was held for the first time at European championships. |
New championship record
There was a new championship record twice, the record was equalized a third time:
- 2: 09.9 min - Nina Otkalenko , 1st preliminary, August 25th
- 2: 08.8 min - Lyudmila Lysenko , 3rd preliminary, August 25th
- 2: 08.8 min - Nina Otkalenko , final, August 27
After the final, the European champion Nina Otkalenko and the bronze medalist Lyudmila Lysenko were joint EM record holders with 2: 08.8 minutes.
Preliminary round
August 25, 1954, 6:30 p.m.
The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Nina Otkalenko |
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2: 09.9 CR |
2 | Anne Oliver |
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2: 11.8 PB |
3 | Bedriska Müllerová |
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2: 11.8 NO |
4th | Ágnes Oros |
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2: 11.8 PB |
5 | Inga Nyqvist |
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2: 17.2 PB |
DNF | Nicole Goullieux |
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Forward 2
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1 | Aranka Kazi |
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2: 11.8 PB |
2 | Bozena Pestka |
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2: 12.0 NO |
3 | Valerie Winn |
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2: 12.4 PB |
4th | Nina Cernoscek |
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2: 12.7 NO |
5 | Marianne Weiss |
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2: 15.6 PB |
6th | Odile Monguillon |
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2: 17.3 PB |
7th | Maria Kessels |
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2: 33.7 PB |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Lyudmila Lysenko |
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2: 08.8 CR |
2 | Diane Leather |
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2: 08.9 SB |
3 | Anna Bácskai |
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2: 12.5 PB |
4th | Claude Laurent |
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2: 14.2 SB |
5 | Loredana Simonetti |
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2: 15.5 PB |
6th | Isolde Beichler |
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2: 17.6 PB |
7th | Ludmila Dunst |
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2: 24.7 PB |
final
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Lyudmila_Shevtsova_1960.jpg/180px-Lyudmila_Shevtsova_1960.jpg)
August 27, 1954, 5 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Nina Otkalenko |
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2: 08.8 CRe |
2 | Diane Leather |
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2: 09.8 |
3 | Lyudmila Lysenko |
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2: 11.2 |
4th | Aranka Kazi |
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2: 11.9 |
5 | Bozena Pestka |
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2: 12.6 |
6th | Valerie Winn |
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2: 13.3 |
7th | Anne Oliver |
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2: 13.3 |
8th | Bedriska Müllerová |
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2: 13.6 |
9 | Anna Bácskai |
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2: 14.6 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 17, 2019
- Women 800m European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 17, 2019
- V European Championship, Bern 1954 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 17, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 17, 2019
- 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 17, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed April 17, 2019