1950 European Athletics Championships

The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgian capital Brussels. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2][3]

4th European Athletics Championships
Dates23 – 27 August 1950
Host cityBrussels, Belgium
VenueStade du Heysel
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events34
Participation454 athletes from
24 nations

Men's results

Complete results were published.[4]

Track
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
  Étienne Bally (FRA)10.7  Franco Leccese (ITA)10.7  Vladimir Sukharev (URS)10.7
200 metres
  Brian Shenton (GBR)21.5  Étienne Bally (FRA)21.8  Jan Lammers (NED)22.1
400 metres
  Derek Pugh (GBR)47.3 CR  Jacques Lunis (FRA)47.6  Lars Wolfbrandt (SWE)47.9
800 metres
  John Parlett (GBR)1:50.5 CR  Marcel Hansenne (FRA)1:50.7  Roger Bannister (GBR)1:50.7
1500 metres
  Wim Slijkhuis (NED)3:47.2 CR  Patrick El Mabrouk (FRA)3:47.8  Bill Nankeville (GBR)3:48.0
5000 metres
  Emil Zátopek (TCH)14:03.0 CR  Alain Mimoun (FRA)14:26.0  Gaston Reiff (BEL)14:26.2
10,000 metres
  Emil Zátopek (TCH)29:12.0 CR  Alain Mimoun (FRA)30:21.0  Väinö Koskela (FIN)30:30.8
Marathon
  Jack Holden (GBR)2:32:13 CR  Veikko Karvonen (FIN)2:32:45  Feodosy Vanin (URS)2:33:47
110 metres hurdles
  André-Jacques Marie (FRA)14.6  Ragnar Lundberg (SWE)14.7  Peter Hildreth (GBR)15.0
400 metres hurdles
  Armando Filiput (ITA)51.9 CR  Yuriy Lituyev (URS)52.4  Harry Whittle (GBR)52.7
3000 metres steeplechase
  Jindřich Roudný (TCH)9:05.4  Petar Šegedin (YUG)9:07.4  Erik Blomster (FIN)9:08.8
10,000 metres track walk
  Fritz Schwab (SUI)46:01.8 CR  Emile Maggi (FRA)46:16.8  John Mikaelsson (SWE)46:48.2
50 kilometres walk
  Pino Dordoni (ITA)4:40:43  John Ljunggren (SWE)4:43:25  Verner Ljunggren (SWE)4:49:28
4 × 100 metres relay
  Soviet Union
Vladimir Sukharev
Levan Kalyayev
Levan Sanadze
Nikolay Karakulov		41.5  France
Étienne Bally
Jacques Perlot
Yves Camus
Jean-Pierre Guillon		41.8  Sweden
Göte Kjellberg
Leif Christersson
Stig Danielsson
Hans Rydén		41.9
4 × 400 metres relay
  Great Britain
Martin Pike
Leslie Lewis
Angus Scott
Derek Pugh		3:10.2 CR  Italy
Baldasare Porto
Armando Filiput
Luigi Paterlini
Antonio Siddi		3:11.0  Sweden
Gösta Brännström
Tage Ekfeldt
Rune Larsson
Lars Wolfbrandt		3:11.6

Field
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
  Alan Paterson (GBR)1.96  Arne Åhman (SWE)1.93  Claude Bénard (FRA)1.93
Long jump
  Torfi Bryngeirsson (ISL)7.32  Gerard Wessels (NED)7.22  Jaroslav Fikejz (TCH)7.20
Pole vault
  Ragnar Lundberg (SWE)4.30 CR  Valto Olenius (FIN)4.25  Juho Piironen (FIN)4.25
Triple jump
  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS)15.39 CR  Valdemar Rautio (FIN)14.96  Ruhi Sarıalp (TUR)14.53
Shot put
  Gunnar Huseby (ISL)16.74 CR  Angiolo Profeti (ITA)15.16  Oto Grigalka (URS)15.14
Discus throw
  Adolfo Consolini (ITA)53.75 CR  Giuseppe Tosi (ITA)52.31  Olli Partanen (FIN)48.69
Javelin throw
  Toivo Hyytiäinen (FIN)71.26  Per-Arne Berglund (SWE)70.06  Ragnar Ericzon (SWE)69.82
Hammer throw
  Sverre Strandli (NOR)55.71  Teseo Taddia (ITA)54.73  Jiří Dadák (TCH)53.64
Decathlon
  Ignace Heinrich (FRA)7364 CR  Örn Clausen (ISL)7297  Kjell Tånnander (SWE)7175

Women's results

Track
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)11.7 CR  Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS)12.3  June Foulds (GBR)12.4
200 metres
  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)24.0  Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS)24.8  Dorothy Hall (GBR)25.0
80 metres hurdles
  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)11.1 CR  Maureen Gardner (GBR)11.6  Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA)11.7
4 × 100 metres relay
  Great Britain
Elspeth Hay
Jean Desforges
Dorothy Hall
June Foulds		47.4  Netherlands
Xenia Stad-de Jong
Bertha Brouwer
Gré de Jongh
Fanny Blankers-Koen		47.4  Soviet Union
Elene Gokieli
Sofya Malshina
Zoya Dukhovich
Yevgeniya Sechenova		47.5

Field
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
  Sheila Lerwill (GBR)1.63  Dorothy Tyler-Odam (GBR)1.63  Galina Ganeker (URS)1.63
Long jump
  Valentina Bogdanova (URS)5.82  Wilhelmina Lust (NED)5.63  Maire Osterdahl (FIN)5.57
Shot put
  Anna Andreyeva (URS)14.32 CR  Klavdiya Tochenova (URS)13.92  Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA)13.37
Discus throw
  Nina Dumbadze (URS)48.03 CR  Rimma Shumskaya (URS)42.25  Edera Cordiale (ITA)41.57
Javelin throw
  Natalya Smirnitskaya (URS)47.55 CR  Herma Bauma (AUT)43.87  Galina Zybina (URS)42.75
Pentathlon
  Arlette Ben Hamo (FRA)3204  Bertha Crowther (GBR)3048  Olga Modrachová (TCH)3026

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain (GBR)83617
2 Soviet Union (URS)65516
3 France (FRA)48315
4 Netherlands (NED)4329
5 Italy (ITA)3519
6 Czechoslovakia (TCH)3036
7 Iceland (ISL)2103
8 Sweden (SWE)14712
9 Finland (FIN)1359
10 Norway (NOR)1001
  Switzerland (SUI)1001
12 Austria (AUT)0101
 Yugoslavia (YUG)0101
14 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Turkey (TUR)0011
Totals (15 nations)343434102

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 454 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event, in agreement with the official number of athletes, but three countries less than the official number of 24 as published.[5]

References
  1. Holden Wins Marathon - European Games Open, Glasgow Herald, August 24, 1950, p. 9, retrieved August 24, 2014
  2. Britain Lose Title - Athletics in Brussels, Glasgow Herald, August 25, 1950, p. 9, retrieved August 24, 2014
  3. Britain's Eight Gold Medals, Glasgow Herald, August 28, 1950, p. 2, retrieved August 24, 2014
  4. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 372–377, retrieved 13 August 2014
  5. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
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