European Athletics Championships 1954 / Women's long jump

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Participants	23 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	26th of August
Medalists
gold	Jean Desforges ( GBR )
silver	Alexandra Tschudina ( URS )
bronze	Elżbieta Duńska ( POL )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The women's long jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 26, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

The British Jean Desforges won . Vice European champion was high jump world record holder Alexandra Tschudina from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to Elżbieta Duńska from Poland - two years later as Elżbieta Krzesińska long jump Olympic champion.

Records

Existing records

World record	6.28 m	Yvette Williams	Gisborne , New Zealand	February 20, 1954
European record	6.25 m	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Leiden , Netherlands	September 19, 1943
		Nadezhda Chnykina	Tbilisi , then Soviet Union (now Georgia )	May 16, 1954
Championship record	5.88 m	Irmgard Praetz	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 17, 1938

Record improvement

European champion Jean Desforges improved the EM record by sixteen centimeters to 6.04 m.  

execution

The competition was conducted without prior qualification. All 23 participants competed in the joint final.

final

Alexandra Tschudina - Vice European champion in the long jump after a fifth place in the javelin throw , then European champion in the pentathlon and sixth in the  high jump

August 26, 1954, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Jean Desforges	Great Britain	6.04 CR
2	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	5.93 SB
3	Elżbieta Duńska	Poland	5.83 SB
4th	Erika fish	BR Germany	5.81 SB
5	Galina Vinogradova	Soviet Union	5.79 SB
6th	Maria Ilwicka	Poland	5.73 SB
7th	Shirley Cawley	Great Britain	5.73 SB
8th	Maria Bibro	Poland	5.63 SB
9	Renate Ibert	BR Germany	5.63 PB
10	Lore Fauth	BR Germany	5.53 PB
11	Suzanne Giotin	France	5.53 PB
12	Sanda Grosu	Romania	5.46 PB
13	Galina blessings	Soviet Union	5.46 PB
14th	Helga Hoffmann	Saarland	5.46 SB
15th	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.35 SB
16	Colette Drou	France	5.32 PB
17th	Karin Mårtensson	Sweden	5.26 PB
18th	Ursula Finger	Saarland	5.24 PB
19th	Friedrike Harasek	Austria	5.24 PB
20th	Reinelde Knapp	Austria	5.13 SB
21st	Sheila Hoskin	Great Britain	5.06 SB
22nd	Mieke de Graaf	Netherlands	5.03 PB
23	Inge Eckel	Saarland	4.90 PB

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  Bronze medalist Elżbieta Duńska (here in 2008) - Elżbieta Krzesińska became Olympic champion in 1956

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  Erika Fisch - here second from the left in an indoor sprint in 1964 - took fourth place

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  Maria Ilwicka - here in 1964, later better known under her name Maria Piątkowska - came in sixth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 20, 2019
• Women Long 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, long 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. Long jump women , accessed April 20, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Long Jump Women , p. 61 (PDF), accessed April 20, 2019