European Athletics Championships 1954 / 10,000 m men

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 10,000-meter run
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 25
Medalist
gold	Emil Zátopek ( TCH )
silver	József Kovács ( HUN )
bronze	Frank Sando ( GBR )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25, 1954 in the Neufeld stadium in Bern .

The European champion was the Czechoslovak defending champion Emil Zátopek , who won his third gold medal at European championships. He won before the Hungarian József Kovács . Bronze went to the Briton Frank Sando .

Records

Existing records

World record	28: 54.2 min	Emil Zatopek	Brussels , Belgium	June 1, 1954
European record
Championship record	29: 12.0 min		EM in Brussels , Belgium	23rd August 1950

Record improvement

European champion Emil Zátopek improved the championship record by fourteen seconds to 28: 58.0 min.  

execution

There were no preliminary runs, 23 runners started the race together.

final

Emil Zátopek defended his title by a margin of 27.8 seconds

August 25, 1954, 7:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Emil Zatopek	Czechoslovakia	28: 58.0 CR
2	József Kovács	Hungary	29: 25.8 SB
3	Frank Sando	Great Britain	29: 27.6 PB
4th	Herbert Schade	BR Germany	29: 32.8 PB
5	Franjo Mihalic	Yugoslavia	29: 59.6 PB
6th	Peter Driver	Great Britain	30: 03.6 PB
7th	Øistein Saksvik	Norway	30: 04.4 SB
8th	Alexander Anufrijew	Soviet Union	30: 19.4 SB
9	Thomas Nilsson	Sweden	30: 22.4 PB
10	Dimitar Vachkov	Bulgaria	30: 25.2 NO
11	Emil Schudel	Switzerland	30: 26.4 NO
12	Grigory Basalaev	Soviet Union	30: 29.4 PB
13	Stanisław Ożóg	Poland	30: 37.2 SB
14th	Hannu Posti	Finland	30: 39.4 SB
15th	Thyge Thøgersen	Denmark	30: 53.4 SB
16	Júlio Silva	Portugal	30: 59.0 NO
17th	Rudolf Morgenthaler	Switzerland	31: 10.4 PB
18th	Jiří Šantrůček	Czechoslovakia	31: 11.2 PB
19th	Lucien Theys	Belgium	31: 26.6 PB
20th	Mustafa Ozcan	Turkey	31: 42.4 PB
21st	Antonio Amorós	Spain	31: 50.8 SB
DNF	Juhász Béla	Hungary
	Jan Miecznikowski	Poland
DNS	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium

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  Bronze medalist Frank Sando

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  Herbert Schade - here in third place in his 5000 m bronze race in the 1952 Olympic final - came fourth

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  Franjo Mihalić finished fifth

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  Thomas Nilsson finished ninth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 5, 2019
• Men 10000m European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 5, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, 10,000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 5, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men , accessed April 5, 2019