European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's hammer throw

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	27 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 28 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalist
gold	Mikhail Krivonosov ( GBR )
silver	Sverre Strandli ( NOR )
bronze	József Csermák ( HUN )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's hammer throw at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 28 and 29, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

The European champion was the Soviet thrower Mikhail Krivonossow , who set a new world record with 63.34 m . Second place went to the Norwegian defending champion Sverre Strandli . Bronze went to the 1952 Olympic champion József Csermák from Hungary.

Records

Existing records

World record	62.36 m	Sverre Strandli	Oslo , Norway	5th September 1953
European record
Championship record	58.77 m	Karl Hein	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

Record improvement

The existing EM record was improved twice at these European Championships:

• 59.33 m - József Csermák , qualification, August 26th 
• 63.34 m - Mikhail Krivonossow , final, August 28 

The last improvement by the European champion Mikhail Krivonossow was also a new world record .

qualification

August 28, 1954, 10:30 a.m.

The 27 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was set clearly too low at 51.00 m. Only five athletes did not reach this mark and were eliminated, while 22 throwers qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	József Csermák	Hungary	59.33 CR
2	Sverre Strandli	Norway	58.52
3	Mikhail Krivonosov	Soviet Union	58.41
4th	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	56.30
5	Mykola Redkin	Soviet Union	56.11
6th	Miloš Máca	Czechoslovakia	54.93
7th	Boris Popov	Bulgaria	54.49 PB
8th	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	54.47
9	Constantin Dumitru	Romania	54.29
10	Teseo Taddia	Italy	53.93
11	Oiva Halmetoja	Finland	53.63
12	Hugo Ziermann	BR Germany	53.53
13	Krešimir Račić	Yugoslavia	53.32 SB
14th	Guy Husson	France	53.13 SB
15th	Birger Asplund	Sweden	52.21
16	Jiří Dadák	Czechoslovakia	52.11
17th	Poul Cederqvist	Denmark	51.93 SB
18th	Imre Németh	Hungary	51.75
19th	Ewan Douglas	Great Britain	51.49
20th	Pierre Legrain	France	51.33 PB
21st	Karl Storch	BR Germany	51.12 SB
22nd	Henrik Haest	Belgium	51.06
23	Roger Veeser	Switzerland	49.36 PB
24	Þorður Sigurðsson	Iceland	48.98 PB
25th	Willy Druyts	Belgium	47.47 PB
26th	Josef Hirsch	Switzerland	46.96 PB
NM	Nicolae Rascanescu	Romania	without space

final

Defending champion Sverre Strandli came in second this time

August 29, 1954, 3:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Mikhail Krivonosov	Soviet Union	63.34 WR
2	Sverre Strandli	Norway	61.07 SB
3	József Csermák	Hungary	59.72 SB
4th	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	57.70 NO
5	Miloš Máca	Czechoslovakia	57.05 PB
6th	Imre Németh	Hungary	56.86 SB
7th	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	56.75 PB
8th	Mykola Redkin	Soviet Union	56.35 SB
9	Jiří Dadák	Czechoslovakia	55.66 SB
10	Teseo Taddia	Italy	55.12 PB
11	Constantin Dumitru	Romania	54.59 PB
12	Hugo Ziermann	BR Germany	54.25 PB
13	Boris Popov	Bulgaria	54.18
14th	Oiva Halmetoja	Finland	53.66 PB
15th	Ewan Douglas	Great Britain	53.47 PB
16	Birger Asplund	Sweden	52.72 SB
17th	Guy Husson	France	52.43
18th	Krešimir Račić	Yugoslavia	51.87
19th	Henrik Haest	Belgium	51.26 PB
20th	Poul Cederqvist	Denmark	51.19
21st	Pierre Legrain	France	48.97
DNS	Karl Storch	BR Germany

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  Tadeusz Rut started his career with a fourth place in an international championship

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  After his fourth place at the European Championships in 1950 , Ivan Gubijan was now seventh

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  Jiří Dadák finished ninth

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  Guy Husson finished seventeenth

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  Krešimir Račić came in eighteen

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 11, 2019
• Men Hammer 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, men's hammer throw 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. Hammer Throw Men , accessed April 11, 2019