European Athletics Championships 1954/80 m hurdles for women

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	80-meter hurdles for women
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Participants	25 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 28th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Marija Golubnitschaja ( URS )
silver	Anneliese Seonbuchner ( FRG )
bronze	Pam Seaborne ( GBR )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 28, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

The European champion was the Soviet runner Marija Golubnitschaja . The German Anneliese Seonbuchner won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Briton Pam Seaborne .

Records

Existing records

World record	10.9 s	Shirley Strickland	Olympic Games Helsinki , Finland	July 24, 1952
		Maria Golubnichaya	Kiev , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	3rd August 1954
European record	10.9 s	Maria Golubnichaya	Kiev , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	3rd August 1954
Championship record	11.1 s	Fanny Blankers-Koen	EM in Brussels , Belgium	August 26, 1950

Record improvement

The European champion Marija Golubnitschaja improved the EM record in the final by a tenth of a second to 11.0 seconds.

Preliminary round

August 27, 1954, 4:30 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	Jean Desforges	Great Britain	11.4
2	Elzbieta Bocian	Poland	11.4
3	Jorun Tangen	Norway	11.9

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maria Golubnichaya	Soviet Union	11.2
2	Elżbieta Duńska	Poland	11.6
3	Yvette Monginou	France	11.9
4th	Grete Jenny	Austria	12.0

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Denise Laborie	France	11.5
2	Elfriede Steurer	Austria	11.6
3	Stina Cronholm	Sweden	12.2
4th	Trudy Hanseler	Switzerland	12.5
DNF	Maria Sander	BR Germany

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anna Alexandrowa	Soviet Union	11.3
2	Milka Babović	Yugoslavia	11.3
3	Miroslava Trkalová	Czechoslovakia	11.6
4th	Hilde De Cort	Belgium	12.5

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pam Seaborne	Great Britain	11.4
2	Anneliese Seonbuchner	BR Germany	11.4
3	Milena Greppi	Italy	11.5
4th	Ana Serban	Romania	11.8
DNF	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Zenta Gastl	BR Germany	11.5
2	Yevgenia Gurwitsch	Soviet Union	11.5
3	Claudie Flament	France	11.7
4th	Thelma Hopkins	Great Britain	11.7

Semifinals

August 28, 1954

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

Run 1

Elżbieta Duńska (here in 2008) - two years later as Elżbieta Krzesińska long jump Olympic champion - did not reach the finals with her sixth place in the first semifinals

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maria Golubnichaya	Soviet Union	11.2
2	Pam Seaborne	Great Britain	11.3
3	Milka Babović	Yugoslavia	11.4
4th	Zenta Gastl	BR Germany	11.5
5	Yevgenia Gurwitsch	Soviet Union	11.5
6th	Elżbieta Duńska	Poland	11.6

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anneliese Seonbuchner	BR Germany	11.4
2	Denise Laborie	France	11.4
3	Jean Desforges	Great Britain	11.5
4th	Anna Alexandrowa	Soviet Union	11.5
5	Elżbieta Bocian	Poland	11.5
6th	Elfriede Steurer	Austria	11.7

final

Milka Babović, who later worked as a journalist, took fifth place

August 28, 1954

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maria Golubnichaya	Soviet Union	11.0 CR
2	Anneliese Seonbuchner	BR Germany	11.2
3	Pam Seaborne	Great Britain	11.2
4th	Denise Laborie	France	11.3 NO
5	Milka Babović	Yugoslavia	11.5
6th	Jean Desforges	Great Britain	11.5

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 17, 2019
• Women 80m Hurdles 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, 80 m hurdles 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. ↑ ^{a b} World Records Progression 80 m Hurdles Women , accessed April 1, 2019