European Athletics Championships 1954/50 km men's walk
5th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 50 km walk |
city | Bern |
venue | Circuit through Bern |
Attendees | 21 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | August 27 |
Medalist | |
gold | Vladimir Uchow ( URS ) |
silver | Josef Doležal ( TCH ) |
bronze | Antal Róka ( HUN ) |
The men's 50 km walk at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27, 1954 in the streets of Bern .
The European champion was the Soviet walker Vladimir Uchow . He won ahead of the Czechoslovak Josef Doležal , who had won the 10,000 m track going the day before . Bronze went to the Hungarian Antal Róka .
Records
Existing records / best performances
World record | 4:20:30 h | Vladimir Uchow | then Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), then Soviet Union today ( Russia ) |
August 29, 1952 |
European best time | ||||
Championship record | 4:38:20 h | John Ljunggren | EM Oslo , Norway | August 23, 1946 |
Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.
Record improvement
European champion Wladimir Uchow improved the EM record by 16: 08.8 min to 4: 22: 11.2 h.
execution
The 21 participants entered the final together.
final
August 27, 1954, 3:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (h) |
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1 | Vladimir Uchow | Soviet Union | 4: 22: 11.2 CR |
2 | Josef Doležal | Czechoslovakia | 4: 25: 07.4 PB |
3 | Antal Róka | Hungary | 4: 31: 32.2 SB |
4th | John Ljunggren | Sweden | 4: 38: 09.6 SB |
5 | János Somogyi | Hungary | 4: 41: 40.4 PB |
6th | Frank Bailey | Great Britain | 4: 46: 06.4 PB |
7th | Abdon Pamich | Italy | 4: 49: 06.4 SB |
8th | Ionescu Baboie | Romania | 4: 49: 30.0 SB |
9 | Edgar Bruun | Norway | 4: 52: 13.0 SB |
10 | Paavo Saira | Finland | 5: 06: 58.0 PB |
11 | René Charrière | Switzerland | 5: 06: 28.0 PB |
12 | Marcel Petitville | France | 5: 12: 02.4 PB |
13 | Trayko Mastagarkov | Bulgaria | 5: 23: 14.4 PB |
14th | Jules Gosse | Belgium | 5: 23: 19.4 PB |
DNF | Giuseppe Dordoni | Italy | |
Roger Chaylat | France | ||
Albert Johnson | Great Britain | ||
Louis Marquis | Switzerland | ||
Åke Söderlund | Sweden | ||
Pavel Kazankov | Soviet Union | ||
Harald Persson | Norway |
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km walk men , accessed April 7, 2019
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 7, 2019
- Men 50km Walk European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 7, 2019
- V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 7, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, 50 km walk men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 7, 2019
- 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 7, 2019