1954 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

The women's 800 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25 and 27 August 1954.[1]

Women's 800 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

Medalists

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Gold Nina Otkalenko
  Soviet Union
Silver Diane Leather
  Great Britain
Bronze Lyudmila Lysenko
  Soviet Union

Results

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Final

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27 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Nina Otkalenko   Soviet Union 2:08.8 CR
  Diane Leather   Great Britain 2:09.8
  Lyudmila Lysenko   Soviet Union 2:11.2
4 Aranka Kazi   Hungary 2:11.9
5 Bożena Pestka   Poland 2:12.6
6 Valerie Winn   Great Britain 2:13.3
7 Anne Oliver   Great Britain 2:13.3
8 Bedřiška Müllerová   Czechoslovakia 2:13.6
9 Anna Bácskai   Hungary 2:14.6

Heats

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25 August

Heat 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Nina Otkalenko   Soviet Union 2:09.9 Q
2 Anne Oliver   Great Britain 2:11.8 Q
3 Bedřiška Müllerová   Czechoslovakia 2:11.8 NR Q
4 Ágnes Oros   Hungary 2:11.8
5 Inga Nyqvist   Finland 2:17.2

Heat 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Aranka Kazi   Hungary 2:11.8 Q
2 Bożena Pestka   Poland 2:12.0 NR Q
3 Valerie Winn   Great Britain 2:12.4 Q
4 Nina Cernoscek   Soviet Union 2:12.7
5 Marianne Weiss   West Germany 2:15.6 NR
6 Odile Monguillon   France 2:17.3
7 Maria Kessels   Belgium 2:33.7

Heat 3

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Lyudmila Lysenko   Soviet Union 2:08.8 CR Q
2 Diane Leather   Great Britain 2:08.9 Q
3 Anna Bácskai   Hungary 2:12.5 Q
4 Claude Laurent   France 2:14.7
5 Loredana Simonetti   Italy 2:16.5 NR
6 Isolde Beichler   West Germany 2:17.6
7 Ludmila Dunst   Austria 2:24.7

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014