European Athletics Championships 1954 / men's long jump

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 27th (qualification) August 28th (final)
Medalist
gold	Ödön Földessy ( HUN )
silver	Zbigniew Iwański ( POL )
bronze	Ernest Wanko ( FRA )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The men's long jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 28, 1954 in the Neufeld Stadium in Bern .

The Hungarian Ödön Földessy was European champion . He won ahead of Poland's Zbigniew Iwański. The French Ernest Wanko came in third.

Existing records

World record	8.13 m	Jesse Owens	Ann Arbor , USA	May 25, 1935
European record	7.90 m	Luz Long	Berlin , Germany	August 1, 1937
Championship record	7.65 m	Wilhelm Leichum	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938

The second since the European Championships in 1938 existing EM -record remained untouched this year.

qualification

Jorma Valkama scored 7.04 m and was eliminated from the qualification

August 27, 1954, 10:30 a.m.

The 25 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.10 m. Twelve athletes qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ödön Földessy	Hungary	7.39
2	Václav Martinek	Czechoslovakia	7.36 PB
3	Attilio Bravi	Italy	7.30 SB
4th	Heinz Oberbeck	BR Germany	7.27
5	Ernest Wanko	France	7.25
6th	Vilhelm Porrassalmi	Finland	7.21
7th	Jaroslav Fikejz	Czechoslovakia	7.20 PBe / SB
8th	Zbigniew Iwański	Poland	7.18
9	Janusz Ratajczak	Poland	7.17
10	Leonid Grigoryev	Soviet Union	7.15 PB
11	Günther Jobst	BR Germany	7.11
12	Roar Berthelsen	Norway	7.11
13	Viktor Leskevich	Soviet Union	7.07 PB
14th	Jorma Valkama	Finland	7.04 PB
15th	Rade Radovanović	Yugoslavia	7.02 PB
16	Ioan Sorin	Romania	6.93 PB
17th	Roy Cruttenden	Great Britain	6.89 PB
18th	Manuel González	Spain	6.83 PB
19th	Hanspeter Bichsel	Switzerland	6.82 PB
20th	Hans Muchitsch	Austria	6.73 PB
21st	Fritz Pingl	Austria	6.71 PB
22nd	Jules Maser	Switzerland	6.70 PB
23	Tony Mooy	Netherlands	6.66 PB
24	Erich Ladwein	Saarland	6.56 PB
NM	Ion Wiesenmayer	Romania	without space

final

European champion Ödön Földessy in 2013

August 28, 1954

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ödön Földessy	Hungary	7.51 PB
2	Zbigniew Iwański	Poland	7.46 PB
3	Ernest Wanko	France	7.41 PB
4th	Günther Jobst	BR Germany	7.38 PB
5	Vilhelm Porrassalmi	Finland	7.36 PB
6th	Václav Martinek	Czechoslovakia	7.32
7th	Attilio Bravi	Italy	7.25
8th	Janusz Ratajczak	Poland	7.23 PB
9	Heinz Oberbeck	BR Germany	7.20
10	Jaroslav Fikejz	Czechoslovakia	7.18
11	Roar Berthelsen	Norway	7.16 PB
12	Leonid Grigoryev	Soviet Union	7.09

The series of tests by Václav Martinek, who placed sixth, was as follows: x - x - 6.93 - 7.32 - 7.30 - 7.16

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 9, 2019
• Men Long Jump European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 9, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 9, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 9, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 9, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed April 9, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Long Jump Men , p. 25 (PDF), accessed April 9, 2019