1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

Events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
10,000 m track walk	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's pole vault at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26 and 28 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Eeles Landström Finland
Silver	Ragnar Lundberg Sweden
Bronze	Geoffrey Elliott United Kingdom
Bronze	Jukka Piironen Finland

Results

Final

28 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Eeles Landström	Finland	4.40	CR NR
02 !	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.40	CR
03 !	Geoffrey Elliott	United Kingdom	4.30	NR
03 !	Jukka Piironen	Finland	4.30
5	Tamás Homonnay	Hungary	4.30
6	Georgios Roubanis	Greece	4.25
7	Victor Sillon	France	4.25
8	Vitaliy Chernobay	Soviet Union	4.25
9	Edward Adamczyk	Poland	4.25
10	Lennart Lindberg	Finland	4.20
11	Zenon Ważny	Poland	4.15
12	Edmondo Ballotta	Italy	4.10
13	Viktor Knyazev	Soviet Union	4.10
13	Jiří Krejcar	Czechoslovakia	4.10
15	Richard Larsen	Denmark	4.10
16	Julius Schneider	West Germany	4.10
17	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.10	NR
18	Walter Hofstetter	Switzerland	4.10
19	Milan Milakov	Yugoslavia	4.00
20	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	DNS

Qualification

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Tamás Homonnay	Hungary	4.05	Q
2	Zenon Ważny	Poland	4.05	Q
3	Julius Schneider	West Germany	4.05	Q
4	Edward Adamczyk	Poland	4.05	Q
5	Victor Sillon	France	4.05	Q
6	Richard Larsen	Denmark	4.05	Q
7	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.05	Q
8	Walter Hofstetter	Switzerland	4.05	Q
9	Jiří Krejcar	Czechoslovakia	4.05	Q
10	Milan Milakov	Yugoslavia	4.05	Q
11	Edmondo Ballotta	Italy	4.05	Q
12	Eeles Landström	Finland	4.05	Q
13	Geoffrey Elliott	United Kingdom	4.05	Q
14	Lennart Lindberg	Finland	4.05	Q
15	Vitaliy Chernobay	Soviet Union	4.05	Q
16	Jukka Piironen	Finland	4.05	Q
17	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.05	Q
18	Viktor Knyazev	Soviet Union	4.05	Q
19	Georgios Roubanis	Greece	4.05	Q
20	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	4.05	Q
21	Zenon Dragomir	Romania	3.95
22	Giulio Chiesa	Italy	3.80
23	Jacques Pirlot	Belgium	3.80
24	Fredy Bossert	Switzerland	3.80

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

France (1)
Greece (1)
Hungary (1)
Iceland (1)
Italy (2)

Poland (2)
Romania (1)
Soviet Union (2)
Sweden (1)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014

Pole vault at the European Athletics Championships

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