Armin Scheurer

Armin Scheurer (born December 24, 1917 ; † August 27, 1990 ) was a Swiss athlete who reached top positions in the decathlon and pole vault at the European Championships in 1946 and 1950 .

At the European Championships in Oslo in 1946 , Scheurer had reported in the decathlon and the pole vault. After completing the decathlon, he withdrew his entry for the pole vault. In the decathlon he reached 6,655 points, which corresponds to 6,458 points according to the 1985 point table. According to the scoring at the time, he was only six points short of the bronze medal winner, the Swede Göran Waxberg .

In 1948 Scheurer gave up after the first discipline at the Olympic Games in London . At the European Championships in Brussels in 1950 , Scheurer achieved 6944 points (= 6637) in the decathlon and came in fifth. On the first day of the decathlon he qualified for the final in the pole vault with a jump of 4.00 m. The day after the decathlon he jumped 4.00 m again and finished sixth in the pole vault. At the end of 1950, Armin Scheurer was voted Sportsman of the Year .

From 1942 to 1951 Scheurer achieved a total of 15 Swiss championship titles in athletics, six each in the pole vault and six in the decathlon, two in the triple jump and one in the long jump. He set nine national records in the pole vault, increasing the record from 4.03 m to 4.30 m. He improved the national record in the triple jump twice, most recently to 14.58 m. The triple jump record was improved by Fritz Portmann in 1954 and the pole vault record was improved by Gérard Barras in 1960 .

Scheurer started as a track and field athlete for BTV Biel . With a height of 1.84 m, Scheurer had a competition weight of 82 kg.

In addition to his athletics career, Scheurer also played football. As an amateur, he was part of the FC Biel-Bienne squad in the 1946/1947 season when the Bielers won their only championship title.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1991 . Windsor 1991 ISBN 1-873057-03-2