European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's hammer throw
5th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's hammer throw |
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Stadion | Neufeld Stadium |
Attendees | 27 athletes from 18 countries |
Competition phase | August 28 (qualifying) August 29 (final) |
Medalist | |
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Mikhail Krivonosov ( GBR )
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Sverre Strandli ( NOR )
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József Csermák ( HUN )
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The men's hammer throw at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 28 and 29, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .
The European champion was the Soviet thrower Mikhail Krivonossow , who set a new world record with 63.34 m . Second place went to the Norwegian defending champion Sverre Strandli . Bronze went to the 1952 Olympic champion József Csermák from Hungary.
Records
Existing records
World record | 62.36 m |
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Oslo , Norway | 5th September 1953 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 58.77 m |
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EM Paris , France | September 4, 1938 |
Record improvement
The existing EM record was improved twice at these European Championships:
- 59.33 m - József Csermák , qualification, August 26th
- 63.34 m - Mikhail Krivonossow , final, August 28
The last improvement by the European champion Mikhail Krivonossow was also a new world record .
qualification
August 28, 1954, 10:30 a.m.
The 27 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was set clearly too low at 51.00 m. Only five athletes did not reach this mark and were eliminated, while 22 throwers qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | József Csermák |
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59.33 CR |
2 | Sverre Strandli |
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58.52 |
3 | Mikhail Krivonosov |
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58.41 |
4th | Ivan Gubijan |
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56.30 |
5 | Mykola Redkin |
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56.11 |
6th | Miloš Máca |
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54.93 |
7th | Boris Popov |
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54.49 PB |
8th | Tadeusz Ruth |
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54.47 |
9 | Constantin Dumitru |
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54.29 |
10 | Teseo Taddia |
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53.93 |
11 | Oiva Halmetoja |
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53.63 |
12 | Hugo Ziermann |
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53.53 |
13 | Krešimir Račić |
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53.32 SB |
14th | Guy Husson |
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53.13 SB |
15th | Birger Asplund |
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52.21 |
16 | Jiří Dadák |
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52.11 |
17th | Poul Cederqvist |
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51.93 SB |
18th | Imre Németh |
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51.75 |
19th | Ewan Douglas |
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51.49 |
20th | Pierre Legrain |
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51.33 PB |
21st | Karl Storch |
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51.12 SB |
22nd | Henrik Haest |
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51.06 |
23 | Roger Veeser |
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49.36 PB |
24 | Þorður Sigurðsson |
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48.98 PB |
25th | Willy Druyts |
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47.47 PB |
26th | Josef Hirsch |
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46.96 PB |
NM | Nicolae Rascanescu |
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final
August 29, 1954, 3:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Mikhail Krivonosov |
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63.34 WR |
2 | Sverre Strandli |
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61.07 SB |
3 | József Csermák |
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59.72 SB |
4th | Tadeusz Ruth |
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57.70 NO |
5 | Miloš Máca |
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57.05 PB |
6th | Imre Németh |
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56.86 SB |
7th | Ivan Gubijan |
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56.75 PB |
8th | Mykola Redkin |
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56.35 SB |
9 | Jiří Dadák |
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55.66 SB |
10 | Teseo Taddia |
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55.12 PB |
11 | Constantin Dumitru |
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54.59 PB |
12 | Hugo Ziermann |
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54.25 PB |
13 | Boris Popov |
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54.18 |
14th | Oiva Halmetoja |
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53.66 PB |
15th | Ewan Douglas |
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53.47 PB |
16 | Birger Asplund |
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52.72 SB |
17th | Guy Husson |
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52.43 |
18th | Krešimir Račić |
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51.87 |
19th | Henrik Haest |
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51.26 PB |
20th | Poul Cederqvist |
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51.19 |
21st | Pierre Legrain |
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48.97 |
DNS | Karl Storch |
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After his fourth place at the European Championships in 1950 , Ivan Gubijan was now seventh
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 11, 2019
- Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 11, 2019
- V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 11, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, men's hammer throw on sportschau.de, accessed on April 11, 2019
- 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 11, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed April 11, 2019