1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

1950 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
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
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 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 24 and 26 August 1950.^[1]

Gold	Ragnar Lundberg  Sweden
Silver	Valto Olenius  Finland
Bronze	Jukka Piironen  Finland

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.30	CR
	Valto Olenius	Finland	4.25
	Jukka Piironen	Finland	4.25
4	Victor Sillon	France	4.10
5	Erling Kaas	Norway	4.10
6	Armin Scheurer	Switzerland	4.00
7	Birger Hultqvist	Sweden	4.00
8	Rudy Stjernild	Denmark	3.80
9	Georges Breitman	France	3.80
	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	DNS

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Valto Olenius	Finland	4.00	Q
	Erling Kaas	Norway	4.00	Q
	Jukka Piironen	Finland	4.00	Q
	Rudy Stjernild	Denmark	4.00	Q
	Birger Hultqvist	Sweden	4.00	Q
	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	4.00	Q
	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	4.00	Q
	Armin Scheurer	Switzerland	4.00	Q
	Victor Sillon	France	4.00	Q
	Georges Breitman	France	4.00	Q
	Muhittin Akın	Turkey	3.90
	Milan Milakov	Yugoslavia	3.90
	Rigas Efstatiadis	Greece	3.80
	Ferdinand Degens	Belgium	3.60
	Albert Van Herck	Belgium	NH

According to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.