European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's pole vault
4. European Athletics Championships | |
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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 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) |
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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
August 26, 1950
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Pole Vault Men , accessed March 30, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Pole Vault at rfea.es, p. 22 (PDF), accessed April 7, 2019