European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's javelin

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 28 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalist
gold	Janusz Sidło ( POL )
silver	Vladimir Kuznetsov ( URS )
bronze	Soini Nikkinen ( FIN )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

European champion Janusz Sidło

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

European record holder Janusz Sidło from Poland became European champion . He won in front of the Soviet thrower Vladimir Kuznetsov . Bronze went to Soini Nikkinen from Finland .

Existing records

World record	80.41 m	Franklin hero	Pasadena , USA	August 8, 1953
European record	80.15 m	Janusz Sidło	Jena , then GDR (now Germany )	October 2, 1953
Championship record	76.87 m	Matti Järvinen	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938

Matti Järvinen's EM record since the second European Championships remained unchanged.

qualification

August 28, 1954, 4 p.m.

The 21 participants took part in a joint qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was too low at 63.00 m. Sixteen throwers reached or exceeded this value and thus took part in the final. Only five athletes were eliminated.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Soini Nikkinen	Finland	75.06 SB
2	Janusz Sidło	Poland	74.36
3	Gullbrand Sjöström	Sweden	73.49 PB
4th	Viktor Zybulenko	Soviet Union	70.79
5	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	69.86
6th	Mirko Vujačić	Yugoslavia	68.96 PB
7th	Zbigniew Radziwonowicz	Poland	68.23
8th	Egil Danielsen	Norway	68.04 SB
9	Sándor Krasznai	Hungary	66.90
10	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	66.24
11	Gerhard Keller	BR Germany	65.85 PB
12	Joop Fikkert	Netherlands	65.64
13	Herbert Koschel	BR Germany	64.14
14th	Milisav Pavlović	Yugoslavia	63.83 PB
15th	Otto Bengtsson	Sweden	63.73
16	Francesco Ziggiotti	Italy	63.00
17th	Halil Zıraman	Turkey	59.36 SB
18th	Albert Brunner	Switzerland	57.63 PB
19th	Andrei Demeter	Romania	57.15 PB
20th	Alec Syrowatsky	France	54.48 SB
21st	Gebhard Büchel	Liechtenstein	54.30 PB
DNS	Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein
	black	Switzerland

final

August 29, 1954, 4:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Janusz Sidło	Poland	75.05	73.50	76.18	74.06	72.72	76.35	76.35 SB
2	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	70.60	72.00	74.61	74.10	68.35	70.55	74.61 SB
3	Soini Nikkinen	Finland	71.38	66.39	71.93	75.38	69.85	71.33	75.38
4th	Viktor Zybulenko	Soviet Union	70.41	x	69.02	72.39	66.16	x	72.39 SB
5	Otto Bengtsson	Sweden	69.90	71.02	69.69	72.38	x	x	72.38 PB
6th	Gullbrand Sjöström	Sweden	69.36	68.38	70.98	x	71.98	69.54	71.98
7th	Zbigniew Radziwonowicz	Poland	64.48	69.55	69.84	not in the final of the six best throwers			69.84 SB
8th	Sándor Krasznai	Hungary	Trial series not known						68.45 PB
9	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland							69.84 SB
10	Egil Danielsen	Norway							68.45 PB
11	Mirko Vujačić	Yugoslavia							68.24
12	Herbert Koschel	BR Germany							67.78 SB
13	Francesco Ziggiotti	Italy							66.53 PB
14th	Joop Fikkert	Netherlands							66.28 PB
15th	Gerhard Keller	BR Germany							63.89
16	Milisav Pavlović	Yugoslavia							58.21

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 12, 2019
• Men Javelin Throw European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed April 12, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 12, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved April 12, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Javelin Men , p. 33 (PDF), accessed April 12, 2019