European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's pole vault

5th European Athletics Championships
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 )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

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.

With a skipped 3.80 m, Giulio Chiesa was one of the four athletes who did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
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)
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

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  Eeles Landström became European Champion and later defended his title at the 1958 European Championships

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  Defending champion Ragnar Lundberg was level with the winner and vice-European champion

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed April 8, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Pole Vault at rfea.es, p. 22 (PDF), accessed April 8, 2019