1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's high jump

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
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The men's high jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 27 and 29 August 1954.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Bengt Nilsson  Sweden
Silver	Jiří Lanský  Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Jaroslav Kovář  Czechoslovakia

Results

Final

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Bengt Nilsson	Sweden	2.02	CR
02 !	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	1.98
03 !	Jaroslav Kovář	Czechoslovakia	1.96
4	Bertil Holmgren	Sweden	1.96
5	Yuriy Stepanov	Soviet Union	1.93
6	Todor Belchev	Bulgaria	1.93
7	Werner Bahr	West Germany	1.93
8	Zbigniew Lewandowski	Poland	1.90
9	Hans-Jürgen Jenss	West Germany	1.90
10	Vlado Marjanović	Yugoslavia	1.90
11	Hans Wähli	Switzerland	1.90
12	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.85

Qualification

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Jaroslav Kovář	Czechoslovakia	1.90	Q
2	Hans Wähli	Switzerland	1.90	Q
3	Bengt Nilsson	Sweden	1.90	Q
4	Todor Belchev	Bulgaria	1.90	Q
5	Bertil Holmgren	Sweden	1.90	Q
6	Zbigniew Lewandowski	Poland	1.90	Q
7	Hans-Jürgen Jenss	West Germany	1.90	Q
8	Werner Bahr	West Germany	1.90	Q
9	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.90	Q
10	Yuriy Stepanov	Soviet Union	1.90	Q
11	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	1.90	Q
12	Vlado Marjanović	Yugoslavia	1.90	Q
13	Vladimir Sitkin	Soviet Union	1.85
14	Erdal Akkan	Turkey	1.85
15	Brendan O'Reilly	Ireland	1.85
16	Etienne Roques	France	1.85
17	Wolfgang Weiss	Switzerland	1.80
18	Walter Herssens	Belgium	1.80

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References