European Athletics Championships 1954 / Men's discus throw

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 26th (qualification) August 28th (final)
Medalist
gold	Adolfo Consolini ( ITA )
silver	Giuseppe Tosi ( ITA )
bronze	József Szécsényi ( HUN )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's discus throw at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 26 and 28, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

In this competition, the results of the European Championships in 1946 , the Olympic Games in 1948 and the European Championships in 1950 were repeated in the first two places . There was a double win for Italy. European champion was Adolfo Consolini ahead of Giuseppe Tosi . Bronze went to the Hungarian József Szécsényi.

Existing records

World record	59.28 m	Fortune Gordia	Pasadena , USA	August 22, 1953
European record	55.79 m	Ferenc Klics	Budapest , Hungary	4th July 1954
Championship record	53.75 m	Adolfo Consolini	EM Brussels , Belgium	August 26, 1950

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 26, 1954, 4.15 p.m.

The 23 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 45.00 m. Thirteen athletes who had exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	50.93
2	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	50.50
3	József Szécsényi	Hungary	50.15
4th	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	49.23
5	Heino Heinaste	Soviet Union	48.78 SB
6th	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	48.40
7th	Jan Vrábel	Czechoslovakia	47.91
8th	Vitomir Krivokapić	Yugoslavia	47.74
9	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	47.38
10	Karl Oweger	BR Germany	46.93
11	Mark Pharaoh	Great Britain	46.32
12	Günther Noack	BR Germany	46.25 PB
13	Carol Lindroos	Finland	45.05
14th	Jean Darot	France	44.49 PB
15th	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	44.31 PB
16	Oskar Hafliger	Switzerland	43.85 PB
17th	Joop Fikkert	Netherlands	43.52 PB
18th	Manuel Silva	Portugal	42.99 PB
19th	Hallgrímur Jónsson	Iceland	42.90 PB
20th	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	42.79 PB
21st	Nuri Turan	Turkey	42.05 PB
22nd	Mathias More	Switzerland	41.14 SB
23	Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein	33.14 SB

final

Adolfo Consolini won his third title in a row

August 28, 1954, 5:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	53.44 SB
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	52.34 PB
3	József Szécsényi	Hungary	51.58 SB
4th	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	51.43 SB
5	Roland Nilsson	Sweden	50.97 PB
6th	Oto Grigalka	Soviet Union	50.60 SB
7th	Vitomir Krivokapić	Yugoslavia	48.79 PB
8th	Jan Vrábel	Czechoslovakia	48.76 PB
9	Karl Oweger	BR Germany	48.23 PB
10	Mark Pharaoh	Great Britain	47.79 SB
11	Carol Lindroos	Finland	46.21 SB
12	Heino Heinaste	Soviet Union	46.09
13	Günther Noack	BR Germany	44.94

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  Giuseppe Tosi - for the third time Vice European Champion behind Adolfo Consolini

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  Roland Nilsson - fifth in the discus throw / fourth in the shot put

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 11, 2019
• Men Discus 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, discus throw men 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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed April 11, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Discus Throw on rfea.es, p. 29 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on April 11, 2019