European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's pole vault
5th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's pole vault |
city | Bern |
Stadion | Neufeld Stadium |
Attendees | 24 athletes from 18 countries |
Competition phase | August 26th (qualification) August 28th (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Eeles Landström ( FIN ) |
silver | Ragnar Lundberg ( SWE ) |
bronze | Geoff Elliott ( GBR ) |
Jukka Piironen ( FIN ) |
The men's pole vault at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 26 and 28, 1954 in the Neufeld stadium in Bern .
European champion was Eeles Landström from Finland . The silver medal went to the Swedish defending champion and European record holder Ragnar Lundberg . Third place went to the Briton Geoff Elliott and the Finn Jukka Piironen.
Records
Existing records
World record | 4.77 m | Cornelius Warmerdam | Modesto , USA | May 23, 1942 |
European record | 4.44 m | Ragnar Lundberg | Gävle , Sweden | August 1, 1952 |
Petro Denyssenko | Kiev , then Soviet Union (now Ukraine ) | June 21, 1953 | ||
Championship record | 4.30 m | Allan Lindberg | EM in Brussels , Belgium | August 26, 1950 |
Record improvement
Both European champion Eeles Landström and vice-European champion Ragnar Lundberg improved the EM record in the final by ten centimeters to 4.40 meters.
qualification
August 26, 1954, 3 p.m.
The 24 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification level for the direct entry into the final was probably set a little low at 4.05 m. Twenty jumpers qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue), only four athletes were eliminated.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Jiří Krejcar | Czechoslovakia | 4.05 |
Eeles Landström | Finland | 4.05 | |
Vitaly Chernobai | Soviet Union | 4.05 | |
Viktor Knyazev | Soviet Union | 4.05 | |
Tamás Homonnay | Hungary | 4.05 | |
Edward Adamczyk | Poland | 4.05 | |
Victor Sillon | France | 4.05 | |
Ragnar Lundberg | Sweden | 4.05 | |
Milan Milakov | Yugoslavia | 4.05 PB | |
Geoff Elliott | Great Britain | 4.05 | |
Jukka Piironen | Finland | 4.05 | |
Georgios Roumbanis | Greece | 4.05 | |
Zenon Ważny | Poland | 4.05 | |
Julius Schneider | BR Germany | 4.05 | |
Richard Larsen | Denmark | 4.05 | |
Walter Hofstetter | Switzerland | 4.05 | |
Edmondo Ballotta | Italy | 4.05 | |
Lennart Lindberg | Finland | 4.05 | |
Dimitar Khlebarov | Bulgaria | 4.05 | |
Torfi Bryngeirsson | Iceland | 4.05 | |
21st | Zenon Dragomir | Romania | 3.95 PB |
22nd | Giulio Chiesa | Italy | 3.80 PB |
23 | Jacques Pirlot | France | 3.80 PB |
24 | Fredy Bossert | Switzerland | 3.80 PB |
final
August 28, 1954, 3:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Eeles Landström | Finland | 4.40 CR / NR |
2 | Ragnar Lundberg | Sweden | 4.40 CR |
3 | Geoff Elliott | Great Britain | 4.30 NO |
Jukka Piironen | Finland | 4.30 PB | |
5 | Tamás Homonnay | Hungary | 4.30 PB |
6th | Georgios Roumbanis | Greece | 4.25 SB |
7th | Victor Sillon | France | 4.25 PB |
8th | Vitaly Chernobai | Soviet Union | 4.25 SB |
9 | Edward Adamczyk | Poland | 4.25 PB |
10 | Lennart Lindberg | Finland | 4.20 PB |
11 | Zenon Ważny | Poland | 4.15 SB |
12 | Edmondo Ballotta | Italy | 4.10 SB |
13 | Viktor Knyazev | Soviet Union | 4.10 SB |
Jiří Krejcar | Czechoslovakia | 4.10 PB | |
15th | Richard Larsen | Denmark | 4.10 SB |
16 | Julius Schneider | BR Germany | 4.10 PB |
17th | Dimitar Khlebarov | Bulgaria | 4.10 NO |
18th | Walter Hofstetter | Switzerland | 4.10 PB |
19th | Milan Milakov | Yugoslavia | 4.00 |
DNS | Torfi Bryngeirsson | Iceland |
Eeles Landström became European Champion and later defended his title at the 1958 European Championships
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 8, 2019
- Men Pole Vault European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed April 8, 2019
- V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 8, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, men's pole vault 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. Pole vault men , accessed April 8, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Pole Vault at rfea.es, p. 22 (PDF), accessed April 8, 2019