European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's pole vault

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (qualification) August 26th (final)
Medalist
gold	Ragnar Lundberg ( SWE )
silver	Valto Olenius ( FIN )
bronze	Jukka Piironen ( FIN )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's pole vault at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 26, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

In this discipline Finland has two medals with silver and bronze. The European champion was the Swede Ragnar Lundberg . He won ahead of Valto Olenius and Jukka Piironen.

Records

Existing records

World record	4.77 m	Cornelius Warmerdam	Modesto , USA	May 23, 1942
European record	4.40 m	Ragnar Lundberg	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 10, 1950
Championship record	4.17 m	Allan Lindberg	EM in Oslo , Norway	August 25, 1946

Record improvement

 Ragnar Lundberg improved the EM record in the final by 13 centimeters to 4.30 meters.

qualification

August 24, 1950

The sixteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 4.00 m. Since ten jumpers jumped this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Valto Olenius	Finland	4.00
	Jukka Piironen	Finland	4.00
	Birger Hultqvist	Sweden	4.00 PB
	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.00
	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	4.00 SB
	Armin Scheurer	Switzerland	4.00
	Victor Sillon	France	4.00
	Georges Breitman	France	4.00 PB
	Erling Kaas	Norway	4.00
	Rudy Stjernild	Denmark	4.00 PB
11	Muhittin Akın	Turkey	3.90 PB
	Walter Hofstetter	Switzerland	3.90 SB
	Milan Milakov	Yugoslavia	3.90 SB
14th	Rigas Efstatiadis	Greece	3.80 SB
15th	Ferdinand Degens	Belgium	3.60 PB
NM	Albert Van Herck	Belgium	without height

final

European Champion Ragnar Lundberg - two days earlier also Vice European Champion in the 110 meter hurdles

August 26, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.30 CR
2	Valto Olenius	Finland	4.25 SB
3	Jukka Piironen	Finland	4.25 SB
4th	Victor Sillon	France	4.10 SB
5	Erling Kaas	Norway	4.10 PBe
6th	Armin Scheurer	Switzerland	4.00
7th	Birger Hultqvist	Sweden	4.00 PBe
8th	Rudy Stjernild	Denmark	3.80
9	Georges Breitman	France	3.80
DNS	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 30, 2019
• Men Pole Vault European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 30, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 30, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, men's pole vault on sportschau.de, accessed on March 30, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 30, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole Vault Men , accessed March 30, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Pole Vault at rfea.es, p. 22 (PDF), accessed April 7, 2019