1958 European Athletics Championships / men's pole vault
6th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's pole vault |
city | Stockholm |
Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Attendees | 26 athletes from 16 countries |
Competition phase | August 20 (qualifying) August 21 (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Eeles Landström ( FIN ) |
silver | Manfred Preussger ( GER ) |
bronze | Vladimir Bulatov ( URS ) |
The men's pole vault at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 21, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.
European champion was the Finnish defending champion Eeles Landström . He won ahead of the GDR athlete Manfred Preußger . Bronze went to Vladimir Bulatov from the Soviet Union.
Records
Existing records
World record | 4.78 m | Bob Gutowski | Palo Alto , USA | April 27, 1957 |
European record | 4.60 m | Georgios Roumbanis | Munich , then FR Germany (now Germany ) | July 12, 1958 |
EM record | 4.40 m | Eeles Landström | EM in Bern , Switzerland | August 28, 1954 |
Ragnar Lundberg |
Record improvement
The top three athletes of these European championships improved the championship record in the final by ten centimeters to 4.50 meters:
- Eeles Landström - European Champion
- Ragnar Lundberg - Vice European Champion
- Vladimir Bulatov - EM third
qualification
August 21, 1958, 1:30 p.m.
The 26 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 4.15 m. 21 athletes jumped this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final together the next day. Only five participants failed in the qualification and it is not clear why qualifications were even carried out with this constellation, which existed in almost all jumping and throwing disciplines.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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- | Valbjörn Þorláksson | Iceland | 4.15 |
Zenon Ważny | Poland | 4.15 | |
Georgios Roumbanis | Greece | 4.15 | |
Edmondo Ballotta | Italy | 4.15 | |
Manfred Preussger | Germany | 4.15 | |
Lennart Lind | Sweden | 4.15 | |
Eeles Landström | Finland | 4.15 | |
Roman Lešek | Yugoslavia | 4.15 | |
Victor Sillon | France | 4.15 | |
Andrzej Krzesiński | Poland | 4.15 | |
Ragnar Lundberg | Sweden | 4.15 | |
Paul Coppejans | Belgium | 4.15 SB | |
Peter Laufer | Germany | 4.15 | |
Vladimir Bulatov | Soviet Union | 4.15 | |
Vitaly Chernobai | Soviet Union | 4.15 | |
Leon Lukman | Yugoslavia | 4.15 | |
Geoff Elliott | Great Britain | 4.15 SB | |
Matti Sutinen | Finland | 4.15 | |
Andreas Larsen-Nyhus | Norway | 4.15 | |
János Horváth | Hungary | 4.15 | |
Rigas Efstatiadis | Greece | 4.15 PB | |
22nd | Richard Larsen | Denmark | 4.00 |
23 | Josef Bauer | Austria | 3.80 PB |
Raymond Van Dijck | Belgium | 3.80 PB | |
Heiðar Georgsson | Iceland | 3.80 PB | |
Bernard Balastre | France | 3.80 PB |
final
August 22, 1958, 2 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Eeles Landström | Finland | 4.50 CR |
2 | Manfred Preussger | Germany | 4.50 CR |
3 | Vladimir Bulatov | Soviet Union | 4.50 CR |
4th | Lennart Lind | Sweden | 4.40 PB |
5 | Zenon Ważny | Poland | 4.30 PB |
6th | Vitaly Chernobai | Soviet Union | 4.30 PB |
7th | Leon Lukman | Yugoslavia | 4.30 PB |
8th | Peter Laufer | Germany | 4.30 PB |
9 | Roman Lešek | Yugoslavia | 4.30 SB |
10 | Andrzej Krzesiński | Poland | 4.20 PB |
Ragnar Lundberg | Sweden | 4.20 SB | |
12 | János Horváth | Hungary | 4.20 PB |
13 | Edmondo Ballotta | Italy | 4.20 PB |
14th | Valbjörn Þorláksson | Iceland | 4.20 PB |
15th | Victor Sillon | France | 4.20 PB |
Andreas Larsen-Nyhus | Norway | 4.20 PB | |
17th | Geoff Elliott | Great Britain | 4.15 SBe |
18th | Georgios Roumbanis | Greece | 4.10 |
19th | Matti Sutinen | Finland | 4.00 |
Rigas Efstatiadis | Greece | 4.00 | |
21st | Paul Coppejans | Belgium | 4.00 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 27, 2019
- Men Pole Vault European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 27, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 27, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, men's pole vault on sportschau.de, accessed on April 27, 2019
- 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 27, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed April 27, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Pole Vault at rfea.es, p. 22 (PDF), accessed April 27, 2019