The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 28 and 29 August 1954.
Medalists Gold Pierre HaarhoffJacques DegatsJean-Paul Martin-du-GardJean-Pierre GoudeauSilver Hans GeisterHelmut DreherHeinz UlzheimerKarl-Friedrich HaasBronze Ragnar GraeffeSven-Oswald MildhRolf BackVoitto Hellsten
Results Final 29 August Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Pierre HaarhoffJacques DegatsJean-Paul Martin-du-GardJean-Pierre Goudeau 3:08.7 CR NR Hans GeisterHelmut DreherHeinz UlzheimerKarl-Friedrich Haas 3:08.8 Ragnar GraeffeSven-Oswald MildhRolf BackVoitto Hellsten 3:11.5 4 Gösta BrännströmUno ElofssonTage EkfeldtLars-Erik Wolfbrandt 3:12.5 5 Péter KarádiLajos SzentgáliEgon SolymossyZoltán Adamik 3:26.1 Peter HigginsAlan DickPeter FryerDerek Johnson DQ
Heats 28 August
Heat 1 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Péter KarádiLajos SzentgáliEgon SolymossyZoltán Adamik 3:12.0 Q 2 Gösta BrännströmUno ElofssonTage EkfeldtLars-Erik Wolfbrandt 3:12.8 Q 3 Oleg AgeyevEdmunds PīlāgsTimofey ShevchenkoYuriy Bitter 3:14.1 4 Gerald WicherRudolf HaideggerHans MuchitschErnst Suppan 3:25.7
Heat 2 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Hans GeisterHelmut DreherHeinz UlzheimerKarl-Friedrich Haas 3:09.7 CR Q 2 Pierre HaarhoffJacques DegatsJean-Paul Martin-du-GardJean-Pierre Goudeau 3:11.2 Q 3 René WeberJosef StegerErnst VogelJean-Jacques Hegg 3:13.4
Heat 3 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Peter HigginsAlan DickPeter FryerDerek Johnson 3:10.8 Q 2 Ragnar GraeffeSven-Oswald MildhRolf BackVoitto Hellsten 3:11.3 NR Q 3 Stanisław SwatowskiZbigniew MakomaskiLech SierekGerard Mach 3:13.1 NR 4 Charles CuvelierRoger MoensLucien De MuynckDirk Stoclet 3:15.9
Participation According to an unofficial count, 44 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.
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