1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the
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
10,000 m track walk 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

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 28 and 29 August 1954.[1]

Medalists

Gold Pierre Haarhoff
Jacques Degats
Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard
Jean-Pierre Goudeau
 France
Silver Hans Geister
Helmut Dreher
Heinz Ulzheimer
Karl-Friedrich Haas
 West Germany
Bronze Ragnar Graeffe
Sven-Oswald Mildh
Rolf Back
Voitto Hellstén
 Finland

Results

Final

29 August

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s)  France Pierre Haarhoff
Jacques Degats
Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard
Jean-Pierre Goudeau
3:08.7 CR NR
2nd, silver medalist(s)  West Germany Hans Geister
Helmut Dreher
Heinz Ulzheimer
Karl-Friedrich Haas
3:08.8
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Finland Ragnar Graeffe
Sven-Oswald Mildh
Rolf Back
Voitto Hellstén
3:11.5
4  Sweden Gösta Brännström
Uno Elofsson
Tage Ekfeldt
Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
3:12.5
5  Hungary Péter Karádi
Lajos Szentgáli
Egon Solymossy
Zoltán Adámik
3:26.1
6  United Kingdom Peter Higgins
Alan Dick
Peter Fryer
Derek Johnson
DQ

Heats

28 August

Heat 1

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  Hungary Péter Karádi
Lajos Szentgáli
Egon Solymossy
Zoltán Adámik
3:12.0 Q
2  Sweden Gösta Brännström
Uno Elofsson
Tage Ekfeldt
Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
3:12.8 Q
3  Soviet Union Oleg Ageyev
Edmunds Pīlāgs
Timofey Shevchenko
Yuriy Bitter
3:14.1
4  Austria Gerald Wicher
Rudolf Haidegger
Hans Muchitsch
Ernst Suppan
3:25.7

Heat 2

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  West Germany Hans Geister
Helmut Dreher
Heinz Ulzheimer
Karl-Friedrich Haas
3:09.7 CR Q
2  France Pierre Haarhoff
Jacques Degats
Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard
Jean-Pierre Goudeau
3:11.2 Q
3   Switzerland René Weber
Josef Steger
Ernst Vogel
Jean-Jacques Hegg
3:13.4

Heat 3

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  United Kingdom Peter Higgins
Alan Dick
Peter Fryer
Derek Johnson
3:10.8 Q
2  Finland Ragnar Graeffe
Sven-Oswald Mildh
Rolf Back
Voitto Hellstén
3:11.3 NR Q
3  Poland Stanisław Swatowski
Zbigniew Makomaski
Lech Sierek
Gerard Mach
3:13.1 NR
4  Belgium Charles Cuvelier
Roger Moens
Lucien De Muynck
Dirk Stoclet
3:15.9

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 44 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

References

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