European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's triple jump

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's triple jump
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 25 (qualifying) August 26 (final)
Medalist
gold	Leonid Shcherbakov ( URS )
silver	Roger Norman ( SWE )
bronze	Martin Řehák ( TCH )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's triple jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1954 was held on August 25 and 26, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

The world record holder Leonid Shcherbakov from the Soviet Union became European champion . He won ahead of the Swede Roger Norman . Bronze went to the Czechoslovak Martin Řehák .

Records

Existing records

World record	16.23 m	Leonid Shcherbakov	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 19, 1953
European record
Championship record	15.39 m		EM Brussels , Belgium	23rd August 1950

Record improvement

European champion Leonid Shcherbakov improved the EM record by 51 centimeters to 15.90 m.

qualification

August 25, 1954, 4:35 p.m.

The 22 participants took part in a joint qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.50 m. Nine jumpers exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and reached the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.06 SB
2	Fritz Portmann	Switzerland	14.86 PB
3	Martin Řehák	Czechoslovakia	14.84
4th	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	14.79
5	Roger Norman	Sweden	14.67
6th	Zygfryd vineyard	Poland	14.67
7th	Theo Strohschnieder	BR Germany	14.66 PB
8th	Jerzy Gizelewski	Poland	14.62 PB
9	Rui Ramos	Portugal	14.56 PB
10	Rade Radovanović	Yugoslavia	14.42 PB
11	István Bolyki	Hungary	14.42 PB
12	Erwin Müller	Switzerland	14.34 PB
13	Tapio Lehto	Finland	14.30 PB
14th	Ioan Sorin	Romania	14.29 PB
15th	Ferhan Devekuşuoğlu	Turkey	14.18 PB
16	Virgil Zavadescu	Romania	14.16 PB
17th	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	14.10 SB
18th	Pierre Thiolon	France	14.05 PB
19th	Walter Herssens	Belgium	13.97 PB
20th	Jacques Boulanger	France	13.91 PB
21st	Herbert Pfeffer	BR Germany	13.90 PB
NM	Wasilij Dementjew	Soviet Union	without space

final

August 26, 1954

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	15.90 CR
2	Roger Norman	Sweden	15.17 PB
3	Martin Řehák	Czechoslovakia	15.10 SB
4th	Zygfryd vineyard	Poland	14.98 SB
5	Fritz Portmann	Switzerland	14.82
6th	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	14.73
7th	Jerzy Gizelewski	Poland	14.20
8th	Theo Strohschnieder	BR Germany	14.15
9	Rui Ramos	Portugal	13.97

• 

  Roger Norman - Vice European Champion with a clear gap to the winner

• 

  Bronze medalist Martin Řehák

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 9, 2019
• Men Triple Jump European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 9, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 9, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, triple jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 9, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 9, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed April 9, 2019