European Athletics Championships 1954 / Women's high jump
5th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's high jump |
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Stadion | Neufeld Stadium |
Participants | 14 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | August 26th (qualification) August 29th (final) |
Medalists | |
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Thelma Hopkins ( GBR )
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Iolanda Balaș ( ROM )
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Olga Modrachová ( TCH )
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The women's high jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 26, 1954 in the Neufeld stadium in Bern .
European champion was the Briton Thelma Hopkins . She won in front of the Romanian Iolanda Balaş . Bronze went to the Czechoslovakian Olga Modrachová .
Records
Existing records
World record | 1.73 m |
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Kiev , then Soviet Union (now Ukraine ) | May 22, 1954 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 1.64 m |
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EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria ) | September 18, 1938 |
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Record improvement
European champion Thelma Hopkins improved the EM record in the final by three centimeters to 1.67 m.
qualification
August 25, 1954
The fourteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification level for direct entry into the final was not sufficiently selective at 1.50 m. All athletes reached this mark and qualified for the final.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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- | Olga Modrachová |
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1.50 |
- | Liduska Ajglova |
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1.50 |
- | Thelma Hopkins |
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1.50 |
- | Sheila Lerwill |
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1.50 |
- | Alexandra Tschudina |
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1.50 |
- | Iolanda Balaș |
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1.50 |
- | Gunhild Larking |
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1.50 |
- | Ludmila Motschilina |
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1.50 |
- | Ursula Schmückle |
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1.50 |
- | Simone Peironne |
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1.50 |
- | Renate Kramer |
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1.50 |
- | Anka Abajeva |
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1.50 SB |
- | Reinelde Knapp |
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1.50 |
- | Berta Sablatnig |
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1.50 PB |
final
August 28, 1954, 4 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Thelma Hopkins |
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1.67 CR |
2 | Iolanda Balaș |
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1.65 NO |
3 | Olga Modrachová |
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1.63 SB |
4th | Gunhild Larking |
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1.63 NO |
5 | Sheila Lerwill |
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1.60 SB |
6th | Alexandra Tschudina |
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1.60 |
7th | Liduska Ajglova |
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1.55 PB |
8th | Renate Kramer |
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1.55 PB |
9 | Ursula Schmückle |
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1.55 PB |
10 | Ludmila Motschilina |
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1.55 PB |
Reinelde Knapp |
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1.55 SB | |
12 | Simone Peironne |
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1.55 PB |
13 | Berta Sablatnig |
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1.50 PBe |
14th | Anka Abajeva |
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1.50 SBe |
The Olympic bronze medalist from 1952 and world record holder of Alexandra Tschudina had to settle for sixth place - before she was fifth in the javelin throw , vice European champion in the long jump and European champion in pentathlon become
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 20, 2019
- Women High Jump European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 20, 2019
- V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 20, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 20, 2019
- 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 20, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed April 20, 2019