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1954 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

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Women's 800 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

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]

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nina Otkalenko  Soviet Union 2:08.8 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Diane Leather  Great Britain 2:09.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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