European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's high jump

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	18 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 27 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalist
gold	Bengt Nilsson ( SWE )
silver	Jiří Lanský ( TCH )
bronze	Jaroslav Kovář ( TCH )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's high jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 29, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

In this competition there were two medals for Czechoslovakia: silver and bronze. The Swedish European record holder Bengt Nilsson became European champion . He won ahead of Jiří Lanský and Jaroslav Kovář.

Records

Existing records

World record	2.12 m	Walter Davis	Dayton , USA	June 27, 1953
European record	2.10 m	Bengt Nilsson	Gothenburg , Sweden	July 15, 1954
Championship record	2.00 m	Kalevi Kotkas	EM Turin , Italy	September 7, 1934

Record improvement

European champion Bengt Nilsson improved the existing EM record in the final by two centimeters to 2.02 m.  

qualification

August 27, 1954, 5 p.m.

The eighteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.90 m. Twelve jumpers qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	1.90
	Jaroslav Kovář	Czechoslovakia	1.90
	Bengt Nilsson	Sweden	1.90
	Bertil Holmgren	Sweden	1.90 PBe
	Hans-Jürgen Jenss	BR Germany	1.90 PB
	Werner Bähr	BR Germany	1.90
	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.90 SB
	Yuri Stepanov	Soviet Union	1.90 PB / SB
	Vlado Marjanović	Yugoslavia	1.90
	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	1.90 PBe / SB
	Todor Beltschew	Bulgaria	1.90
	Zbigniew Lewandowski	Poland	1.90 SB
13	Volodymyr Sitkin	Soviet Union	1.85 SB
14th	Erdal Akkan	Turkey	1.85 PB
15th	Brendan O'Reilly	Ireland	1.85 SB
16	Etienne Roques	France	1.85 PB
17th	Walter Herssens	Belgium	1.80 SB
18th	Wolfgang Weiss	Switzerland	1.80 PB

final

August 29, 1954, 4:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Bengt Nilsson	Sweden	2.02 CR
2	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	1.98 SB
3	Jaroslav Kovář	Czechoslovakia	1.96 PB
4th	Bertil Holmgren	Sweden	1.96 PB
5	Yuri Stepanov	Soviet Union	1.93 SB
6th	Todor Beltschew	Bulgaria	1.93 PB
7th	Werner Bähr	BR Germany	1.93 PB
8th	Zbigniew Lewandowski	Poland	1.90 SBe
9	Hans-Jürgen Jenss	BR Germany	1.90 PBe
10	Vlado Marjanović	Yugoslavia	1.90 SBe
11	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	1.90 PBe
12	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.85

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 8, 2019
• Men High Jump European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 8, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 8, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed March 30, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. High Jump on rfea.es, p. 21 (PDF), accessed on April 8, 2019