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1954 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

[edit] American football

1954 World Championships
- Men's all-around champion – Viktor Chukarin, USSR
- Women's all-around champion – Galina Rud'ko, USSR
- Team competition champions – men's - USSR; women's - USSR

England

Other events

May 6 – Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile barrier with a time of 3:59.4
August 25 to 29 August – European Championships held at Berne, capital of Switzerland

Footscray wins the 58th VFL Premiership (Footscray 15.12 (102) d Melbourne 7.9 (51))
Brownlow Medal awarded to Roy Wright (Richmond)

January 14 – Former Yankees great Joe DiMaggio marries legendary actress Marilyn Monroe in a union of heavily publicized media stars.
World Series – New York Giants win 4 games to 0 over the Cleveland Indians

FIBA World Championship –
- Gold: United States of America
- Silver: Brazil
- Bronze: Philippines
NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- La Salle wins 92-76 over Bradley
NBA Finals|NBA Finals –
- Minneapolis Lakers win 4-3 over the Syracuse Nationals
March 13 – Milan High School, enrollment 161, defeated Muncie Central High School (enrollment over 1,600) 32-30 to win the Indiana state title. The 1986 movie classic Hoosiers was very loosely based on the story of this Milan team.

September 17 in New York City, Rocky Marciano retained his World Heavyweight title with an 8th round knockout of Ezzard Charles
December 12 – death of Ed Sanders (30), American heavyweight soon after a fight with Willie James in which he lost consciousness

The BC Lions started play in the Western Interprovincial Football Union as the ninth professional team.
The Ontario Rugby Football Union stops challenging for the Grey Cup, permanently establishing that trophy as one to be awarded only to professional teams.
These changes result in the Grey Cup being an East vs. West competition. Although the Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late 1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football. It is also considered to be the year the CFL was founded in substance if not in name.
In the Grey Cup, the Edmonton Eskimos win 26-25 over the Montreal Alouettes.
The Canadian Intermediate-Senior championship was awarded to the Winnipeg Rams. The team consisted of [1] Rich Kolisnyk (quarterback), Mel Kotch, Bob Jones, Tom Brisson, Bill Ritchie, Len Sigurdson, Walt Van Wynsberg, Lorne Miller, Gerry Duguid, Harry Makin, Art Makin, Jerry Lavitt, John Thorney, Bill Barrett, Jim Thorney, Al McBride, Bill Senyk, Bob Bouchard, Ray Charambura, Nick Miller, Dick Hebertson, Ron Stephenson, Al Passman, Mort Corrin, Bill Yee, Norm Lampe, Dede Brown, Joe Sawchuk, Art Brockhill, Lew Miles, Ken Freeman, Bill Thomas, Ron Cooke, Pete Sawchuk, Harry Snider, Harold Neufeld and their mascot Ken Kolisnyk.

Men's professional

Men's amateur

Women's professional

Steeplechases

Flat races

May 5 – 1953–54 Challenge Cup final replay is won 8–4 by Warrington against Halifax before a world record crowd for a rugby football match of either code of over 120,000 at Odsal Stadium.^[1]
May 8 – 1953–54 Northern Rugby Football League season culminates in Warrington's 8–7 win over Halifax in the Championship Final at Maine Road before 36,519.
September 18 – NSWRFL season 1954 culminates in South Sydney's 23–15 win over Newtown in the grand final.
November 13 – first World Cup tournament culminates in Great Britain's 16 – 12 win over France in the final.
December 13 – the final match of the 1953–54 European Championship was played, with England finishing on top of the tournament ladder to claim the championship.