5th European Athletics Championships
Dates	25 – 29 August
Host city	Bern, Switzerland
Venue	Stadion Neufeld
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	35
Participation	686 athletes from 28 nations
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The 5th European Athletics Championships were held at Stadion Neufeld from 25–29 August 1954 in the Swiss capital Bern. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Complete results were published.^[6]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Heinz Fütterer (FRG)	10.5 =CR	René Bonino (FRA)	10.6	George Ellis (GBR)	10.7
200 metres details	Heinz Fütterer (FRG)	20.9 CR	Ardalion Ignatyev (URS)	21.1	George Ellis (GBR)	21.2
400 metres details	Ardalion Ignatyev (URS)	46.6 CR	Voitto Hellstén (FIN)	47.0	Zoltán Adamik (HUN)	47.6
800 metres details	Lajos Szentgáli (HUN)	1:47.1 CR	Lucien De Muynck (BEL)	1:47.3	Audun Boysen (NOR)	1:47.4
1500 metres details	Roger Bannister (GBR)	3:43.8 CR	Gunnar Nielsen (DEN)	3:44.4	Stanislav Jungwirth (TCH)	3:45.4
5000 metres details	Vladimir Kuts (URS)	13:56.6 CR	Chris Chataway (GBR)	14:08.8	Emil Zátopek (TCH)	14:10.2
10,000 metres details	Emil Zátopek (TCH)	28:58.0 CR	József Kovács (HUN)	29:25.8	Frank Sando (GBR)	29:27.6
110 metres hurdles details	Yevgeniy Bulanchik (URS)	14.4	Jack Parker (GBR)	14.6	Berthold Steines (FRG)	14.7
400 metres hurdles details	Anatoliy Yulin (URS)	50.5 CR	Yuriy Lituyev (URS)	50.8	Ossi Mildh (FIN)	51.5
3000 metres steeplechase details	Sándor Rozsnyói (HUN)	8:49.6 CR	Olavi Rinteenpää (FIN)	8:52.4	Ernst Larsen (NOR)	8:53.2
4 × 100 metres relay details	Hungary László Zarándi Géza Varasdi György Csányi Béla Goldoványi	40.6 CR	Great Britain Kenneth Box George Ellis Kenneth Jones Brian Shenton	40.8	Soviet Union Boris Tokarev Viktor Ryabov Levan Sanadze Leonid Bartenev	40.9
4 × 400 metres relay details	France Claude Haarhoff Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau	3:08.7 CR	West Germany Hans Geister Helmut Drehen Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:08.8	Finland Raimo Graeffe Ossi Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellstén	3:11.5
10,000 metres track walk details	Josef Doležal (TCH)	45:01.8 CR	Anatoliy Yegorov (URS)	45:53.0	Sergey Lobastov (URS)	46:21.8
50 kilometres walk details	Vladimir Ukhov (URS)	4:22:11.2 CR	Josef Doležal (TCH)	4:25:07.4	Antal Róka (HUN)	4:31:32.2
Marathon details	Veikko Karvonen (FIN)	2:24:51.6 CR	Boris Grishayev (URS)	2:24:55.8	Ivan Filin (URS)	2:25:26.6
High jump details	Bengt Nilsson (SWE)	2.02 m CR	Jiří Lanský (TCH)	1.98 m	Jaroslav Kovář (TCH)	1.96 m
Pole vault details	Eeles Landström (FIN)	4.40 m CR	Ragnar Lundberg (SWE)	4.40 m CR	Jeff Elliott (GBR)	4.30 m
					Jukka Piironen (FIN)	4.30 m
Long jump details	Ödön Földessy (HUN)	7.51 m	Zbigniew Iwański (POL)	7.46 m	Ernest Wanko (FRA)	7.41 m
Triple jump details	Leonid Shcherbakov (URS)	15.90 m CR	Roger Norman (SWE)	15.17 m	Martin Řehák (TCH)	15.10 m
Shot put details	Jiří Skobla (TCH)	17.20 m CR	Oto Grigalka (URS)	16.69 m	Heino Heinaste (URS)	16.27 m
Discus throw details	Adolfo Consolini (ITA)	53.44 m	Giuseppe Tosi (ITA)	53.34 m	József Szécsényi (HUN)	51.58 m
Javelin throw details	Janusz Sidło (POL)	76.35 m	Vladimir Kuznetsov (URS)	74.61 m	Soini Nikkinen (FIN)	73.38 m
Hammer throw details	Mikhail Krivonosov (URS)	63.34 m CR	Sverre Strandli (NOR)	61.07 m	József Csermák (HUN)	59.72 m
Decathlon details	Vasili Kuznetsov (URS)	6752 pts	Torbjörn Lassenius (FIN)	6424 pts	Heinz Oberbeck (FRG)	6263 pts

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Irina Turova (URS)	11.8	Bertha van Duyne (NED)	11.9	Anne Pashley (GBR)	11.9
200 metres details	Mariya Itkina (URS)	24.3	Irina Turova (URS)	24.4	Shirley Hampton (GBR)	24.4
800 metres details	Nina Otkalenko (URS)	2:08.8 CR	Diane Leather (GBR)	2:09.8	Lyudmila Lysenko (URS)	2:11.2
80 metres hurdles details	Maria Golubnichaya (URS)	11.0 CR	Anneliese Seonbuchner (FRG)	11.2	Pam Seaborne (GBR)	11.3
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Rimma Uliskina Maria Itkina Irina Turova	45.8 CR	West Germany Irmgard Egert Charlotte Bohmer Irene Brutting Maria Sander	46.3	Italy Maria Musso Giuseppina Leone Letizia Bertoni Milena Greppi	46.6
High jump details	Thelma Hopkins (GBR)	1.67 m CR	Iolanda Balaş (ROU)	1.65 m	Olga Modrachová (TCH)	1.63 m
Long jump details	Jean Desforges (GBR)	6.04 m CR	Aleksandra Chudina (URS)	5.93 m	Elżbieta Duńska (POL)	5.83 m
Shot put details	Galina Zybina (URS)	15.65 m CR	Maria Kuznetsova (URS)	14.99 m	Tamara Tyshkevich (URS)	14.78 m
Discus throw details	Nina Ponomaryeva (URS)	48.02 m	Irina Beglyakova (URS)	45.79 m	Galina Zybina (URS)	44.77 m
Javelin throw details	Dana Zátopková (TCH)	52.91 m CR	Virve Roolaid (URS)	49.94 m	Nadezhda Konyayeva (URS)	49.49 m
Pentathlon details	Aleksandra Chudina (URS)	4526 pts CR	Maria Sander (FRG)	4485 pts	Maria Sturm (FRG)	4357 pts

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	16	11	8	35
2	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	4	2	5	11
3	Hungary (HUN)	4	1	4	9
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	4	7	14
5	West Germany (FRG)	2	4	3	9
6	Finland (FIN)	2	3	4	9
7	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	0	3
8	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
11	Norway (NOR)	0	1	2	3
12	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
Totals (15 entries)		35	35	36	106

According to an unofficial count, 689 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 686 as published.^[7]

• "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
• "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

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