European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's high jump
5th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's high jump |
city | Bern |
Stadion | Neufeld Stadium |
Attendees | 18 athletes from 12 countries |
Competition phase | August 27 (qualifying) August 29 (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Bengt Nilsson ( SWE ) |
silver | Jiří Lanský ( TCH ) |
bronze | Jaroslav Kovář ( TCH ) |
The men's high jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 29, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .
In this competition there were two medals for Czechoslovakia: silver and bronze. The Swedish European record holder Bengt Nilsson became European champion . He won ahead of Jiří Lanský and Jaroslav Kovář.
Records
Existing records
World record | 2.12 m | Walter Davis | Dayton , USA | June 27, 1953 |
European record | 2.10 m | Bengt Nilsson | Gothenburg , Sweden | July 15, 1954 |
Championship record | 2.00 m | Kalevi Kotkas | EM Turin , Italy | September 7, 1934 |
Record improvement
European champion Bengt Nilsson improved the existing EM record in the final by two centimeters to 2.02 m.
qualification
August 27, 1954, 5 p.m.
The eighteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.90 m. Twelve jumpers qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Jiří Lanský | Czechoslovakia | 1.90 |
Jaroslav Kovář | Czechoslovakia | 1.90 | |
Bengt Nilsson | Sweden | 1.90 | |
Bertil Holmgren | Sweden | 1.90 PBe | |
Hans-Jürgen Jenss | BR Germany | 1.90 PB | |
Werner Bähr | BR Germany | 1.90 | |
Kazimierz Fabrykowski | Poland | 1.90 SB | |
Yuri Stepanov | Soviet Union | 1.90 PB / SB | |
Vlado Marjanović | Yugoslavia | 1.90 | |
Hans Wahli | Switzerland | 1.90 PBe / SB | |
Todor Beltschew | Bulgaria | 1.90 | |
Zbigniew Lewandowski | Poland | 1.90 SB | |
13 | Volodymyr Sitkin | Soviet Union | 1.85 SB |
14th | Erdal Akkan | Turkey | 1.85 PB |
15th | Brendan O'Reilly | Ireland | 1.85 SB |
16 | Etienne Roques | France | 1.85 PB |
17th | Walter Herssens | Belgium | 1.80 SB |
18th | Wolfgang Weiss | Switzerland | 1.80 PB |
final
August 29, 1954, 4:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Bengt Nilsson | Sweden | 2.02 CR |
2 | Jiří Lanský | Czechoslovakia | 1.98 SB |
3 | Jaroslav Kovář | Czechoslovakia | 1.96 PB |
4th | Bertil Holmgren | Sweden | 1.96 PB |
5 | Yuri Stepanov | Soviet Union | 1.93 SB |
6th | Todor Beltschew | Bulgaria | 1.93 PB |
7th | Werner Bähr | BR Germany | 1.93 PB |
8th | Zbigniew Lewandowski | Poland | 1.90 SBe |
9 | Hans-Jürgen Jenss | BR Germany | 1.90 PBe |
10 | Vlado Marjanović | Yugoslavia | 1.90 SBe |
11 | Hans Wahli | Switzerland | 1.90 PBe |
12 | Kazimierz Fabrykowski | Poland | 1.85 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 8, 2019
- Men High Jump European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 8, 2019
- V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 8, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 8, 2019
- 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 8, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed March 30, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. High Jump on rfea.es, p. 21 (PDF), accessed on April 8, 2019