European Athletics Championships 1954 / Women's high jump

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Participants	14 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 26th (qualification) August 29th (final)
Medalists
gold	Thelma Hopkins ( GBR )
silver	Iolanda Balaș ( ROM )
bronze	Olga Modrachová ( TCH )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The women's high jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 26, 1954 in the Neufeld stadium in Bern .

European champion was the Briton Thelma Hopkins . She won in front of the Romanian Iolanda Balaş . Bronze went to the Czechoslovakian Olga Modrachová .

Records

Existing records

World record	1.73 m	Alexandra Tschudina	Kiev , then Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	May 22, 1954
European record
EM record	1.64 m	Ibolya Csák	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938
		Nelly van Balen-Blanken
		Feodora to Solms

Record improvement

European champion Thelma Hopkins improved the EM record in the final by three centimeters to 1.67 m.  

qualification

August 25, 1954

The fourteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification level for direct entry into the final was not sufficiently selective at 1.50 m. All athletes reached this mark and qualified for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
-	Olga Modrachová	Czechoslovakia	1.50
-	Liduska Ajglova	Czechoslovakia	1.50
-	Thelma Hopkins	Great Britain	1.50
-	Sheila Lerwill	Great Britain	1.50
-	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	1.50
-	Iolanda Balaș	Romania	1.50
-	Gunhild Larking	Sweden	1.50
-	Ludmila Motschilina	Soviet Union	1.50
-	Ursula Schmückle	BR Germany	1.50
-	Simone Peironne	France	1.50
-	Renate Kramer	BR Germany	1.50
-	Anka Abajeva	Bulgaria	1.50 SB
-	Reinelde Knapp	Austria	1.50
-	Berta Sablatnig	Austria	1.50 PB

final

Vice European Champion Iolanda Balaș, who rose to be the world's best high jumper for many years from 1957

August 28, 1954, 4 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Thelma Hopkins	Great Britain	1.67 CR
2	Iolanda Balaș	Romania	1.65 NO
3	Olga Modrachová	Czechoslovakia	1.63 SB
4th	Gunhild Larking	Sweden	1.63 NO
5	Sheila Lerwill	Great Britain	1.60 SB
6th	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	1.60
7th	Liduska Ajglova	Czechoslovakia	1.55 PB
8th	Renate Kramer	BR Germany	1.55 PB
9	Ursula Schmückle	BR Germany	1.55 PB
10	Ludmila Motschilina	Soviet Union	1.55 PB
	Reinelde Knapp	Austria	1.55 SB
12	Simone Peironne	France	1.55 PB
13	Berta Sablatnig	Austria	1.50 PBe
14th	Anka Abajeva	Bulgaria	1.50 SBe

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  Gunhild Larking came in fourth

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  The Olympic bronze medalist from 1952 and world record holder of Alexandra Tschudina had to settle for sixth place - before she was fifth in the javelin throw , vice European champion in the long jump and European champion in pentathlon become

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 20, 2019
• Women High Jump European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 20, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 20, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed April 20, 2019