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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 high jump at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 27 and 29 August 1954.

Medalists

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

Results

Final

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Bengt Nilsson	Sweden	2.02	CR
	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	1.98
	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 Wahli	Switzerland	1.90
12	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.85

Qualification

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Jaroslav Kovář	Czechoslovakia	1.90	Q
	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	1.90	Q
	Bengt Nilsson	Sweden	1.90	Q
	Todor Belchev	Bulgaria	1.90	Q
	Bertil Holmgren	Sweden	1.90	Q
	Zbigniew Lewandowski	Poland	1.90	Q
	Hans-Jürgen Jenss	West Germany	1.90	Q
	Werner Bahr	West Germany	1.90	Q
	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.90	Q
	Yuriy Stepanov	Soviet Union	1.90	Q
	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	1.90	Q
	Vlado Marjanović	Yugoslavia	1.90	Q
	Volodymyr Sitkin	Soviet Union	1.85
	Erdal Akkan	Turkey	1.85
	Brendan O'Reilly	Ireland	1.85
	Etienne Roques	France	1.85
	Wolfgang Weiss	Switzerland	1.80
	Walter Herssens	Belgium	1.80

Participation

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

•  Belgium (1)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (2)
•  France (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Soviet Union (2)
•  Sweden (2)
•   Switzerland (2)
•  Turkey (1)
•  West Germany (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

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

• Events at the 1954 European Athletics Championships
• High jump at the European Athletics Championships