European Athletics Championships 1954/100 m men

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	37 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	August 25th (preliminary) August 26th (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Heinz Fütterer ( FRG )
silver	René Bonino ( FRA )
bronze	George Ellis ( GBR )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's 100-meter run at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 26, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

The German runner Heinz Fütterer became European champion . He won ahead of the French René Bonino. Bronze went to the Briton George Ellis .

Existing records

World record	10.2 s	Jesse Owens	Chicago , USA	June 20, 1936
		Harold Davis	Compton , USA	June 6, 1941
		Lloyd LaBeach	Fresno , USA	May 15, 1948
		Barney Ewell	Evanston , USA	July 9, 1948
		McDonald Bailey	Belgrade , then Yugoslavia (now Serbia )	August 25, 1951
European record	10.2 s	McDonald Bailey	Belgrade , then Yugoslavia (now Serbia )	August 25, 1951
Championship record	10.4 s	Orazio Mariani	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938
		Wil van Beveren

The EM record that has existed since the second European Championships remained unchanged this year.

Preliminary round

August 25, 1954, 4:40 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in eight 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	10.9
2	Jan Carlsson	Sweden	10.9
3	Angel Kolev	Bulgaria	10.9
4th	Kurt Heidrich	Saarland	11.2
5	József Senkei	Hungary	11.2

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Fütterer	BR Germany	10.7
2	Jacques Derderian	France	11.0
3	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	11.0
4th	Aleksandar Benjak	Yugoslavia	11.1
DSQ	Nikodem Goździalski	Poland

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leonhard Pohl	BR Germany	10.8
2	Ken Jones	Great Britain	10.9
3	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	11.0
4th	Jacques Vercruysse	Belgium	11.1

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Theo Saat	Netherlands	10.9
2	Ilarie Magdas	Romania	11.0
DSQ	Gert Lemmes	Saarland
	Sangermano	Italy
DNS	Llans	Spain

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	László Zarándi	Hungary	10.8
2	Hayo Rulander	Netherlands	11.0
3	Roland Vercruysse	Belgium	11.2
4th	Angel Gavrilov	Bulgaria	11.2
5	Tomas Paquete	Portugal	11.2

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	René Bonino	France	10.8
2	Hans Wehrli-Frei	Switzerland	10.9
3	Guðmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	11.2
4th	Alexandru Stoenescu	Romania	11.2

Forward 7

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Zdobysław Stawczyk	Poland	11.0
2	Viktor Ryabov	Soviet Union	11.0
3	Josef Wimmer	Austria	11.1
DNS	Muzaffer Selvi	Turkey

Forward 8

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Václav Janeček	Czechoslovakia	11.0
2	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	11.1
3	Milovan Jovančić	Yugoslavia	11.2
4th	Joseph Huber	Switzerland	11.3
5	Todori Yordanidis	Greece	11.5

Semifinals

August 26, 1954, 4:30 p.m.

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Fütterer	BR Germany	10.5
2	Jan Carlsson	Sweden	10.7
3	Hayo Rulander	Netherlands	10.7
4th	Ken Jones	Great Britain	10.7
5	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	10.9
DNS	Jacques Derderian	France

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leonhard Pohl	BR Germany	10.7
2	George Ellis	Great Britain	10.7
3	Viktor Ryabov	Soviet Union	10.7
4th	Hans Wehrli-Frei	Switzerland	10.7
5	Ilarie Magdas	Romania	10.9

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	René Bonino	France	10.7
2	Theo Saat	Netherlands	10.8
3	László Zarándi	Hungary	10.9
4th	Václav Janeček	Czechoslovakia	10.9
5	Zdobysław Stawczyk	Poland	11.0

European champion Heinz Fütterer won his first of two European Championship titles in this competition

final

August 26, 1954, 6.15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Fütterer	BR Germany	10.5
2	René Bonino	France	10.6
3	George Ellis	Great Britain	10.7
4th	Leonhard Pohl	BR Germany	10.7
5	Jan Carlsson	Sweden	10.7
6th	Theo Saat	Netherlands	11.1

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  Jan Carlsson finished fifth

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  Theo Saat finished sixth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 4, 2019
• Men 100m 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, 100 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

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed April 4, 2019