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

Medalists

Gold	Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau  France
Silver	Hans Geister Helmut Dreher Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas  West Germany
Bronze	Sven-Oswald Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellsten  Finland

Results

Final

29 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau	3:08.7	CR NR
	West Germany	Hans Geister Helmut Dreher Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:08.8
	Finland	Sven-Oswald Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellsten	3:11.5
4	Sweden	Gösta Brännström Uno Elofsson Tage Ekfeldt Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	3:12.5
5	Hungary	Péter Karádi Lajos Szentgáli Egon Solymossy Zoltán Adamik	3:26.1
	Great Britain	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 Uno Elofsson Tage Ekfeldt Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	3:12.8	Q
3	Soviet Union	Oleg Ageyev Edmunds Pīlāgs Timofey Shevchenko Yuriy Bitter	3:14.1
4	Austria	Gerald Wicher Rudolf Haidegger Hans Muchitsch Ernst Suppan	3:25.7

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	West Germany	Hans Geister Helmut Dreher Heinz Ulzheimer Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:09.7	CR Q
2	France	Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau	3:11.2	Q
3	Switzerland	René Weber Josef Steger Ernst Vogel Jean-Jacques Hegg	3:13.4

Heat 3

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	Derek Johnson	3:10.8	Q
2	Finland	Sven-Oswald Mildh Rolf Back Voitto Hellsten	3:11.3	NR Q
3	Poland	Stanisław Swatowski Zbigniew Makomaski Lech Sierek Gerard Mach	3:13.1	NR
4	Belgium	Charles Cuvelier Roger Moens Lucien De Muynck Dirk Stoclet	3:15.9

Participation

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