Torfi Bryngeirsson

Torfi Bryngeirsson (born November 11, 1926 in Búastaðar , Vestmannaeyjar , † July 15, 1995 in Reykjavík ) was an Icelandic athlete . With a height of 1.78 m, his competition weight was 72 kg.

Torfi Bryngeirsson took part in the Olympic Games twice. In 1948 in London he failed in the pole vault qualification. In 1952 in Helsinki he finished 14th with a skipped 3.95 meters.

At the European Championships in Brussels in 1950 and in Bern in 1954 , he was able to qualify for the final in the pole vault, but did not take part in the final on both occasions.

He increased the Icelandic pole vault record in 1952 to 4.35 meters. He also set a national record in 1950 in the long jump . He also qualified for the final in the long jump at the European Championships. In the final he jumped the national record with 7.32 meters. With this jump he became European champion ahead of the Dutchman Gerard Wessels with 7.22 meters.

Icelandic athletes won a total of three titles at European Championships, next to Torfi Bryngeirsson the shot putter Gunnar Huseby , who won in 1946 and 1950, was the only European champion.

literature

• EAA (Ed.): Statistics Manual . published for the European Championships 2002 in Munich
• Peter Matthews (ed): Athletics 1996 . Surbiton 1996 ISBN 1-899807-01-2
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics . Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Web links

• Profile at rzutyiskoki.pl Leszek Albiniak
• Torfi Bryngeirsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .