1958 European Athletics Championships / men's pole vault

6th European Athletics Championships
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 )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

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)
-	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

Defending champion Eeles Landström was also successful here in Stockholm

August 22, 1958, 2 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
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

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  Vice European Champion Manfred Preußger

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  Lennart Lind came in fourth

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  Roman Lešek finished ninth

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  Ragnar Lundberg - European Champion from 1950 and Vice European Champion from 1954 - finished tenth in this final

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed April 27, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Pole Vault at rfea.es, p. 22 (PDF), accessed April 27, 2019