1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26 and 29 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Roger Bannister Great Britain
Silver	Gunnar Nielsen Denmark
Bronze	Stanislav Jungwirth Czechoslovakia

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Roger Bannister	Great Britain	3:43.8	CR NR
	Gunnar Nielsen	Denmark	3:44.4	NR
	Stanislav Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	3:45.4
4	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3:46.2
5	Werner Lueg	West Germany	3:46.4
6	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	3:47.0
7	Denis Johansson	Finland	3:47.4
8	Günter Dohrow	West Germany	3:48.2
9	Ian Boyd	Great Britain	3:49.2
10	Jorma Kakko	Finland	3:51.8
	Veliša Mugoša	Yugoslavia	DNF
	Alfred Langenus	Belgium	DNS

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Günter Dohrow	West Germany	3:51.0	Q
2	Stanislav Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	3:51.2	Q
3	Roger Bannister	Great Britain	3:51.8	Q
4	Alfred Langenus	Belgium	3:51.8	Q
5	Andrej Vipotnik	Yugoslavia	3:52.2
6	Edmund Potrzebowski	Poland	3:52.2
7	Vladimir Bagreyev	Soviet Union	3:53.0
8	August Sutter	Switzerland	3:54.4
9	Ekrem Koçak	Turkey	3:57.4
10	Richard Badet	France	3:57.8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Veliša Mugoša	Yugoslavia	3:51.0	Q
2	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	3:51.2	Q
3	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3:51.4	Q
4	Jorma Kakko	Finland	3:51.4	Q
5	Roger Müller	Luxembourg	3:52.0
6	Gaston Reiff	Belgium	3:57.0
7	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	3:58.2
8	Heinz Thoet	Switzerland	4:01.0
9	Manuel Macías	Spain	4:10.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Werner Lueg	West Germany	3:53.2	Q
2	Ian Boyd	Great Britain	3:53.2	Q
3	Gunnar Nielsen	Denmark	3:53.6	Q
4	Denis Johansson	Finland	3:53.8	Q
5	Antoine Vincendon	France	3:54.6
6	István Rózsavölgyi	Hungary	3:54.6
7	Alexander Zvolensky	Czechoslovakia	3:55.2
8	Kazimierz Żbikowski	Poland	3:56.6
9	Dimitrios Konstantinidis	Greece	3:57.6
10	Turhan Göker	Turkey	4:01.2

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.