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

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
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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 Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas  West Germany
Bronze	Ragnar Graeffe Sven-Oswald Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellsten  Finland

Results[]

Final[]

29 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Pierre Haarhoff Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau	3:08.7	CR NR
	West Germany	Hans Geister Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:08.8
	Finland	Ragnar Graeffe Sven-Oswald Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellsten	3:11.5
4	Sweden	Gösta Brännström Tage Ekfeldt Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	3:12.5
5	Hungary	Péter Karádi Lajos Szentgáli Egon Solymossy Zoltán Adamik	3:26.1
	Great Britain	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 Adamik	3:12.0	Q
2	Sweden	Gösta Brännström Tage Ekfeldt Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	3:12.8	Q
3	Soviet Union	Edmunds Pīlāgs	3:14.1
4	Austria	Rudolf Haidegger Hans Muchitsch	3:25.7

Heat 2[]

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	West Germany	Hans Geister 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	Josef Steger	3:13.4

Heat 3[]

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	Peter Higgins Alan Dick Peter Fryer Derek Johnson	3:10.8	Q
2	Finland	Ragnar Graeffe Sven-Oswald Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellsten	3:11.3	NR Q
3	Poland	Stanisław Swatowski Zbigniew Makomaski Gerard Mach	3:13.1	NR
4	Belgium	Roger Moens Lucien De Muynck	3:15.9

Participation[]

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

References[]