1954 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

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
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 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  Great Britain
Bronze	Jukka Piironen  Finland

Results[]

Final[]

28 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Eeles Landström	Finland	4.40	CR NR
	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.40	CR
	Geoffrey Elliott	Great Britain	4.30	NR
	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		Finland	4.20
11	Zenon Ważny	Poland	4.15
12	Edmondo Ballotta	Italy	4.10
13	Viktor Knyazev	Soviet Union	4.10
13		Czechoslovakia	4.10
15		Denmark	4.10
16		West Germany	4.10
17	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.10	NR
18	Walter Hofstetter	Switzerland	4.10
19	Milan Milakov	Yugoslavia	4.00
	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	DNS

Qualification[]

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Tamás Homonnay	Hungary	4.05	Q
	Zenon Ważny	Poland	4.05	Q
		West Germany	4.05	Q
	Edward Adamczyk	Poland	4.05	Q
	Victor Sillon	France	4.05	Q
		Denmark	4.05	Q
	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.05	Q
	Walter Hofstetter	Switzerland	4.05	Q
		Czechoslovakia	4.05	Q
	Milan Milakov	Yugoslavia	4.05	Q
	Edmondo Ballotta	Italy	4.05	Q
	Eeles Landström	Finland	4.05	Q
	Geoffrey Elliott	Great Britain	4.05	Q
		Finland	4.05	Q
	Vitaliy Chernobay	Soviet Union	4.05	Q
	Jukka Piironen	Finland	4.05	Q
	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.05	Q
	Viktor Knyazev	Soviet Union	4.05	Q
	Georgios Roubanis	Greece	4.05	Q
	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	4.05	Q
	Zeno Dragomir	Romania	3.95
	Giulio Chiesa	Italy	3.80
	Jacques Pirlot	Belgium	3.80
		Switzerland	3.80

Participation[]

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

References[]