1950 European Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

4th European Athletics Championships

Dates| 23 – 27 August
Host city| Brussels, Belgium
Venue| Stade du Heysel
Level| Senior
Type| Outdoor
Events| 34
Participation| 454 athletes from
24 nations

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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]

## Men's results

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Complete results were published.[4]

### Track

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details |  Étienne Bally (FRA) | 10.7  |  Franco Leccese (ITA) | 10.7  |  Vladimir Sukharev (URS) | 10.7
200 metres
details |  Brian Shenton (GBR) | 21.5  |  Étienne Bally (FRA) | 21.8  |  Jan Lammers (NED) | 22.1
400 metres
details |  Derek Pugh (GBR) | 47.3 CR |  Jacques Lunis (FRA) | 47.6  |  Lars Wolfbrandt (SWE) | 47.9
800 metres
details |  John Parlett (GBR) | 1:50.5 CR |  Marcel Hansenne (FRA) | 1:50.7  |  Roger Bannister (GBR) | 1:50.7
1500 metres
details |  Wim Slijkhuis (NED) | 3:47.2 CR |  Patrick El Mabrouk (FRA) | 3:47.8  |  Bill Nankeville (GBR) | 3:48.0
5000 metres
details |  Emil Zátopek (TCH) | 14:03.0 CR |  Alain Mimoun (FRA) | 14:26.0  |  Gaston Reiff (BEL) | 14:26.2
10,000 metres
details |  Emil Zátopek (TCH) | 29:12.0 CR |  Alain Mimoun (FRA) | 30:21.0  |  Väinö Koskela (FIN) | 30:30.8
Marathon
details |  Jack Holden (GBR) | 2:32:13 CR |  Veikko Karvonen (FIN) | 2:32:45  |  Feodosy Vanin (URS) | 2:33:47
110 metres hurdles
details |  André-Jacques Marie (FRA) | 14.6  |  Ragnar Lundberg (SWE) | 14.7  |  Peter Hildreth (GBR) | 15.0
400 metres hurdles
details |  Armando Filiput (ITA) | 51.9 CR |  Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 52.4  |  Harry Whittle (GBR) | 52.7
3000 metres steeplechase
details |  Jindřich Roudný (TCH) | 9:05.4  |  Petar Šegedin (YUG) | 9:07.4  |  Erik Blomster (FIN) | 9:08.8
10,000 metres track walk
details |  Fritz Schwab (SUI) | 46:01.8 CR |  Emile Maggi (FRA) | 46:16.8  |  John Mikaelsson (SWE) | 46:48.2
50 kilometres walk
details |  Pino Dordoni (ITA) | 4:40:43  |  John Ljunggren (SWE) | 4:43:25  |  Verner Ljunggren (SWE) | 4:49:28
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  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
details |  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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

## Women's results

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### Track

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details |  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 11.7 CR |  Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 12.3  |  June Foulds (GBR) | 12.4
200 metres
details |  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 24.0  |  Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 24.8  |  Dorothy Hall (GBR) | 25.0
80 metres hurdles
details |  Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 11.1 CR |  Maureen Gardner (GBR) | 11.6  |  Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA) | 11.7
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Great Britain (GBR)| 8| 3| 6| 17
2|  Soviet Union (URS)| 6| 5| 6| 17
3|  France (FRA)| 4| 8| 3| 15
4|  Netherlands (NED)| 4| 3| 1| 8
5|  Italy (ITA)| 3| 5| 1| 9
6|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 3| 0| 3| 6
7|  Iceland (ISL)| 2| 1| 0| 3
8|  Sweden (SWE)| 1| 4| 7| 12
9|  Finland (FIN)| 1| 3| 5| 9
10|  Norway (NOR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Switzerland (SUI)| 1| 0| 0| 1
12|  Austria (AUT)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Yugoslavia (YUG)| 0| 1| 0| 1
14|  Belgium (BEL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Turkey (TUR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (15 entries)| 34| 34| 34| 102

## Participation

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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]

* Austria (11)
* Belgium (48)
* Czechoslovakia (15)
* Denmark (10)
* Finland (20)
* France (56)
* Greece (12)
* Iceland (10)
* Italy (33)
* Luxembourg (5)
* Netherlands (21)
* Norway (17)
* Poland (3)
* Portugal (3)
* Soviet Union (34)
* Spain (2)
* Sweden (38)
* Switzerland (19)
* Turkey (10)
* Great Britain (48)
* Yugoslavia (39)

## References

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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

Results

* "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 25 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
* "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.

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