Misplaced Pages

1954 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

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.

Medalists

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

Results

Final

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

25 August

Heat 1

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

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

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

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

•  Austria (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (2)
•  Hungary (3)
•  Italy (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Great Britain (3)
•  West Germany (2)

References

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

• Events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships
• 800 metres at the European Athletics Championships
• 1954 in women's athletics