1954 European Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 27 (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Jiří Skobla ( TCH )
silver	Oto Grigalka ( URS )
bronze	Heino Heinaste ( URS )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The shot put men at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was on 27 August 1954 at the Stadium Neufeld in Bern held.

With silver and bronze there were two medals for the Soviet Union in this competition. The European champion was the Czechoslovak European record holder Jiří Skobla . The third of the European Championships in 1950 Oto Grigalka won the silver medal. Bronze went to Heino Heinaste.

Records

Existing records

World record	18.54 m	Parry O'Brien	Los Angeles , USA	June 11, 1956
European record	17.57 m	Jiří Skobla	then East Berlin (now Berlin ), then GDR (now Germany )	August 6, 1950
EM record	16.74 m	Gunnar Huseby	EM Brussels , Belgium	August 25, 1950

Record improvement

European champion Jiří Skobla improved the EM record with his fourth shot in the final by 46 centimeters to 17.20 m, after he had already achieved 17.08 m in the first attempt.  

qualification

August 27, 1954, 10:30 a.m.

The 24 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final was 14.50 m, which turned out to be a bit too small, because sixteen athletes reached or exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). This made the final field a bit too big overall.

With his 14.14 m, Alois Schwabl was 36 centimeters short of the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Heino Heinaste	Soviet Union	15.90
2	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	15.86
3	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	15.52
4th	John Savidge	Great Britain	15.46
5	Gabriel Georgescu	Romania	15.27
6th	Reijo Koivisto	Finland	15.15
7th	Petar Šarčević	Yugoslavia	15.12
8th	Josef Stoklasa	Czechoslovakia	15.09
9	Raymond Thomas	France	15.09
10	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	14.92
11	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	14.83
12	Ferenc Kövesdi	Hungary	14.82
13	János Mihályfi	Hungary	14.72
14th	Yrjö Puntti	Finland	14.67
15th	Edouard Vandezande	Belgium	14.51
16	Mark Pharaoh	Great Britain	14.50
17th	Lucien Guillier	France	14.43 PB
18th	Skúli Thorarensen	Iceland	14.35 PB
19th	Alois Schwabl	Austria	14.14 PB
20th	Max Hubacher	Switzerland	14.13 PB
21st	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	14.01 PB
22nd	Nuri Turan	Turkey	13.74 PB
23	Willy Senn	Switzerland	13.70 SB
24	Willy Wuyts	Belgium	13.64 PB

final

European record holder Jiří Skobla won the European Championship title

August 27, 1954

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Jiří Skobla	Czechoslovakia	17.20 CR
2	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	16.69 SB
3	Heino Heinaste	Soviet Union	16.27 SB
4th	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	16.17 SB
5	John Savidge	Great Britain	16.10 SB
6th	Ferenc Kövesdi	Hungary	15.70 PB
7th	Gabriel Georgescu	Romania	15.48 PB
8th	Petar Šarčević	Yugoslavia	15.43 PB
9	Reijo Koivisto	Finland	15.39 SB
10	Raymond Thomas	France	15.35 PB
11	János Mihályfi	Hungary	15.18 PB
12	Josef Stoklasa	Czechoslovakia	15.13 PB
13	Yrjö Puntti	Finland	15.02 PB
14th	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	15.01 SB
15th	Edouard Vandezande	Belgium	14.94 PB
16	Mark Pharaoh	Great Britain	14.65 PB

Trial series of the European champion Jiří Skobla : 17.08 m ( CR ) - 16.64 m - 16.76 m - 17.20 m ( CR ) - 17.05 m - 16.96 m  

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 10, 2019
• Men Shot Put European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 10, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on April 10, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed April 10, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 27 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on April 10, 2019