1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

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

The men's marathon at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, on 25 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Veikko Karvonen  Finland
Silver	Boris Grishayev  Soviet Union
Bronze	Ivan Filin  Soviet Union

Results

Final

25 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Veikko Karvonen	Finland	2:24:51.6	CR
	Boris Grishayev	Soviet Union	2:24:55.6
	Ivan Filin	Soviet Union	2:25:26.6
4	Erkki Puolakka	Finland	2:26:45.6
5	Gustaf Jansson	Sweden	2:27:27.8
6	Geoff Iden	United Kingdom	2:28:02.8
7	Janus van der Zande	Netherlands	2:29:19.2
8	José Araujo	Portugal	2:29:45.0
9	Victor Olsen	Norway	2:33:49.4
10	Cristea Dinu	Romania	2:35:07.4
11	Eric Smith	United Kingdom	2:35:22.2
12	Bengt Rehnvall	Sweden	2:35:48.6
13	Walter Bednář	Czechoslovakia	2:36:41.4
14	Hans Vollbach	West Germany	2:40:02.4
15	Claudino Martins	Portugal	2:41:01.4
16	Adolf Gruber	Austria	2:41:59.6
17	Franjo Škrinjar	Yugoslavia	2:42:11.8
18	August Blumensaat	West Germany	2:42:32.2
19	Jules Zehnder	Switzerland	2:45:27.8
20	Guillaume Marquet	Belgium	2:48:47.2
21	Michel Pressencé	France	2:55:52.4
22	Hans Studer	Switzerland	2:58:22.0

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

References