The men's 800 metres at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 25, 27, and 28 August 1954.

Medalists Gold Lajos Szentgáli Silver Lucien De Muynck Bronze Audun Boysen

Results Final 28 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Lajos Szentgáli 1:47.1 CR NR Lucien De Muynck 1:47.3 NR Audun Boysen 1:47.4 NR 4 Derek Johnson 1:47.4 5 Roger Moens 1:47.8 6 Gérard Rasquin 1:51.4 7 Tage Ekfeldt 1:53.8 8 Ron Delany 2:03.5

Semi-finals 27 August

Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Lajos Szentgáli 1:50.0 CR Q 2 Ron Delany 1:50.2 NR Q 3 Lucien De Muynck 1:50.3 Q 4 Tage Ekfeldt 1:50.3 Q 5 Edmund Potrzebowski 1:51.2 6 Brian Hewson 1:51.2 7 Olaf Lawrenz 1:51.4 8 Urpo Vähäranta 1:51.4

Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Audun Boysen 1:50.6 Q 2 Roger Moens 1:50.7 Q 3 Derek Johnson 1:51.0 Q 4 Gérard Rasquin 1:51.5 Q 5 René Djian 1:51.8 6 Friedel Stracke 1:52.3 7 Oleg Ageyev 1:52.5 8 István Bárkányi 1:52.8

Heats 25 August

Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Olaf Lawrenz 1:52.0 Q 2 Lucien De Muynck 1:52.2 Q 3 István Bárkányi 1:52.4 Q 4 Tage Ekfeldt 1:52.4 Q 5 Tauno Kontio 1:52.8 6 Ludvík Liška 1:53.2 7 Alfred Lasch 1:55.4 8 Manuel Macías 1:56.7

Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Lajos Szentgáli 1:51.8 Q 2 Derek Johnson 1:51.8 Q 3 Edmund Potrzebowski 1:52.3 Q 4 René Djian 1:52.8 Q 5 Josef Steger 1:53.5 6 Ekrem Koçak 1:56.2

Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Brian Hewson 1:50.2 CR Q 2 Audun Boysen 1:50.3 Q 3 Gérard Rasquin 1:51.6 Q 4 Oleg Ageyev 1:51.7 Q 5 Evangelos Depastas 1:52.7 6 Hugo Wallkamm 1:55.1 7 Patrick El Mabrouk 1:56.0 8 Ernst Suppan 1:58.4 9 Ünal Somuncuoğlu 2:02.6

Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Roger Moens 1:51.5 Q 2 Ron Delany 1:51.8 Q 3 Friedel Stracke 1:52.1 Q 4 Urpo Vähäranta 1:52.2 Q 5 Hans Ring 1:52.7 6 Georgiy Ivakin 1:53.9 7 Dušan Čikel 1:54.2 8 Miloje Grujić 1:55.7

Participation According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

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