European Athletics Championships 1954/800 m women

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 25th (preliminary) August 27th (final)
Medalists
gold	Nina Otkalenko ( URS )
silver	Diane Leather ( GBR )
bronze	Lyudmila Lysenko ( URS )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

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	Nina Otkalenko	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)
1	Nina Otkalenko	Soviet Union	2: 09.9 CR
2	Anne Oliver	Great Britain	2: 11.8 PB
3	Bedriska Müllerová	Czechoslovakia	2: 11.8 NO
4th	Ágnes Oros	Hungary	2: 11.8 PB
5	Inga Nyqvist	Finland	2: 17.2 PB
DNF	Nicole Goullieux	France

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Aranka Kazi	Hungary	2: 11.8 PB
2	Bozena Pestka	Poland	2: 12.0 NO
3	Valerie Winn	Great Britain	2: 12.4 PB
4th	Nina Cernoscek	Soviet Union	2: 12.7 NO
5	Marianne Weiss	BR Germany	2: 15.6 PB
6th	Odile Monguillon	France	2: 17.3 PB
7th	Maria Kessels	Belgium	2: 33.7 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lyudmila Lysenko	Soviet Union	2: 08.8 CR
2	Diane Leather	Great Britain	2: 08.9 SB
3	Anna Bácskai	Hungary	2: 12.5 PB
4th	Claude Laurent	France	2: 14.2 SB
5	Loredana Simonetti	Italy	2: 15.5 PB
6th	Isolde Beichler	BR Germany	2: 17.6 PB
7th	Ludmila Dunst	Austria	2: 24.7 PB

final

Bronze medalist Lyudmilla Lysenko - in the photo during her Olympic victory in  1960

August 27, 1954, 5 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nina Otkalenko	Soviet Union	2: 08.8 CRe
2	Diane Leather	Great Britain	2: 09.8
3	Lyudmila Lysenko	Soviet Union	2: 11.2
4th	Aranka Kazi	Hungary	2: 11.9
5	Bozena Pestka	Poland	2: 12.6
6th	Valerie Winn	Great Britain	2: 13.3
7th	Anne Oliver	Great Britain	2: 13.3
8th	Bedriska Müllerová	Czechoslovakia	2: 13.6
9	Anna Bácskai	Hungary	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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed April 17, 2019