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.

References