European Athletics Championships 1954/50 km men's walk

5th European Athletics Championships
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 )

Top view of Bern's old town in 1954

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)
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

1. ↑ 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