1958 European Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

6th European Athletics Championships

Dates| 19 – 24 August
Host city| Stockholm, Sweden
Venue| Stockholms Olympiastadion
Level| Senior
Type| Outdoor
Events| 36
Participation| 626 athletes from
26 nations

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The 6th European Athletics Championships were held from 19–24 August 1958 in the Olympic Stadium of Stockholm, Sweden. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

## Medal summary

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Complete results were published.[7]

### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details |  Armin Hary (FRG) | 10.3 CR |  Manfred Germar (FRG) | 10.4  |  Peter Radford (GBR) | 10.4
200 metres
details |  Manfred Germar (FRG) | 21.0  |  David Segal (GBR) | 21.3  |  Jocelyn Delecour (FRA) | 21.3
400 metres
details |  John Wrighton (GBR) | 46.3 CR |  John Salisbury (GBR) | 46.5  |  Karl-Friedrich Haas (FRG) | 47.0
800 metres
details |  Mike Rawson (GBR) | 1:47.8  |  Audun Boysen (NOR) | 1:47.9  |  Paul Schmidt (FRG) | 1:47.9
1500 metres
details |  Brian Hewson (GBR) | 3:41.9 CR |  Dan Waern (SWE) | 3:42.1  |  Ron Delany (IRL) | 3:42.3
5000 metres
details |  Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL) | 13:53.4 CR |  Kazimierz Zimny (POL) | 13:55.2  |  Gordon Pirie (GBR) | 14:01.6
10,000 metres
details |  Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL) | 28:56.0 CR |  Yevgeni Zhukov (URS) | 28:58.6  |  Nikolay Pudov (URS) | 29:02.2
110 metres hurdles
details |  Martin Lauer (FRG) | 13.7 CR |  Stanko Lorger (YUG) | 14.1  |  Anatoly Mikhailov (URS) | 14.4
400 metres hurdles
details |  Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 51.1  |  Per-Ove Trollsås (SWE) | 51.6  |  Bruno Galliker (SUI) | 51.8
3000 metres steeplechase
details |  Jerzy Chromik (POL) | 8:38.2 CR |  Semyon Rzhishchin (URS) | 8:38.8  |  Hans Huneke (FRG) | 8:43.6
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  West Germany
Walter Mahlendorf
Armin Hary
Heinz Fütterer
Manfred Germar | 40.2 CR |  Great Britain
Peter Radford
Roy Sandstrom
David Segal
Adrian Breacker | 40.2  |  Soviet Union
Boris Tokarev
Edvin Ozolin
Yuriy Konovalov
Leonid Bartenev | 40.2
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  Great Britain
Ted Sampson
John MacIsaac
John Wrighton
John Salisbury | 3:07.9 CR |  West Germany
Carl Kaufmann
Manfred Poerschke
Johannes Kaiser
Karl-Friedrich Haas | 3:08.2  |  Sweden
Nils Holmberg
Hans Lindgren
Lennart Johnssson
Alf Petersson | 3:10.7
Marathon
details |  Sergei Popov (URS) | 2:15:17.0 CR |  Ivan Filin (URS) | 2:20:50.6  |  Frederick Norris (GBR) | 2:21:15.0
20 kilometres walk
details |  Stan Vickers (GBR) | 1:33:09.0  |  Leonid Spirin (URS) | 1:35:04.2  |  Lennart Back (SWE) | 1:35:22.2
50 kilometres walk
details |  Yevgeniy Maskinskov (URS) | 4:17:15.4 CR |  Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:18:00.0  |  Max Weber (GDR) | 4:19:58.6
High jump
details |  Rickard Dahl (SWE) | 2.12 m CR |  Jiří Lanský (TCH) | 2.10 m  |  Stig Pettersson (SWE) | 2.10 m
Pole vault
details |  Eeles Landström (FIN) | 4.50 m CR |  Manfred Preussger (GDR) | 4.50 m  |  Vladimir Bulatov (URS) | 4.50 m
Long jump
details |  Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 7.81 m CR |  Kazimierz Kropidłowski (POL) | 7.67 m  |  Henryk Grabowski (POL) | 7.51 m
Triple jump
details |  Józef Schmidt (POL) | 16.43 m CR |  Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS) | 16.02 m  |  Vilhjálmur Einarsson (ISL) | 16.00 m
Shot put
details |  Arthur Rowe (GBR) | 17.78 m CR |  Viktor Lipsnis (URS) | 17.47 m  |  Jiří Skobla (TCH) | 17.12 m
Discus throw
details |  Edmund Piątkowski (POL) | 53.92 m CR |  Todor Artarski (BUL) | 53.82 m  |  Vladimir Trusenyev (URS) | 53.74 m
Javelin throw
details |  Janusz Sidło (POL) | 80.16 m CR |  Egil Danielsen (NOR) | 78.27 m  |  Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) | 75.25 m
Hammer throw
details |  Tadeusz Rut (POL) | 64.78 m CR |  Mikhail Krivonosov (URS) | 63.78 m  |  Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) | 63.68 m
Decathlon
details |  Vasili Kuznetsov (URS) | 7865 pts CR |  Uno Palu (URS) | 7329 pts  |  Walter Meier (GDR) | 7249 pts

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details |  Heather Young (GBR) | 11.7 =CR |  Vera Krepkina (URS) | 11.7  |  Christa Stubnick (GDR) | 11.8
200 metres
details |  Barbara Janiszewska (POL) | 24.1  |  Hannelore Sadau (GDR) | 24.3  |  Maria Itkina (URS) | 24.3
400 metres
details |  Maria Itkina (URS) | 53.7 CR |  Yekaterina Parlyuk (URS) | 54.8  |  Moyra Hiscox (GBR) | 55.7
800 metres
details |  Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS) | 2:06.3 CR |  Diane Leather (GBR) | 2:06.6  |  Dzidra Levitska (URS) | 2:06.6
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  Soviet Union
Vera Krepkina
Linda Kepp
Nina Polyakova
Valentina Maslovskaya | 45.3 CR |  Great Britain
Madeleine Weston
Dorothy Hyman
Marianne Dew
Carole Quinton | 46.0  |  Poland
Maria Chojnacka
Barbara Janiszewska
Celina Jesionowska
Maria Bibro | 46.0
80 metres hurdles
details |  Galina Bystrova (URS) | 10.9 CR |  Zenta Kopp (FRG) | 10.9  |  Gisela Birkemeyer (GDR) | 11.0
Long jump
details |  Liesel Jakobi (FRG) | 6.14 m CR |  Valentina Lituyeva (URS) | 6.00 m  |  Nina Protchenko (URS) | 5.99 m
High jump
details |  Iolanda Balaş (ROU) | 1.77 m CR |  Taisia Chenchik (URS) | 1.70 m  |  Dorothy Shirley (GBR) | 1.67 m
Shot put
details |  Marianne Werner (FRG) | 15.74 m CR |  Tamara Tyshkevich (URS) | 15.54 m  |  Tamara Press (URS) | 15.53 m
Discus throw
details |  Tamara Press (URS) | 53.32 m CR |  Štěpánka Mertová (TCH) | 52.19 m  |  Kriemhild Hausmann (FRG) | 50.99 m
Javelin throw
details |  Dana Zátopková (TCH) | 56.02 m CR |  Birutė Zalogaitytė (URS) | 51.30 m  |  Jutta Neumann (FRG) | 50.50 m
Pentathlon
details |  Galina Bystrova (URS) | 4733 pts CR |  Nina Vinogradova (URS) | 4627 pts  |  Edeltraud Eiberle (FRG) | 4545 pts

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union (URS)| 11| 15| 9| 35
2|  Poland (POL)| 8| 2| 2| 12
3|  Great Britain (GBR)| 7| 5| 5| 17
4|  West Germany (FRG)| 6| 3| 6| 15
5|  Sweden (SWE)| 1| 2| 3| 6
6|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 1| 2| 1| 4
7|  Finland (FIN)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Romania (ROM)| 1| 0| 0| 1
9|  East Germany (GDR)| 0| 2| 4| 6
10|  Norway (NOR)| 0| 2| 0| 2
11|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Italy (ITA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia)| 0| 1| 0| 1
14|  Hungary (HUN)| 0| 0| 2| 2
15|  France (FRA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Iceland (ISL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Ireland (IRL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Switzerland (SUI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (18 entries)| 36| 36| 36| 108

## Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 629 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 626 as published.[8] A joint German team comprising athletes from both East and West Germany was competing. Assignment of the athletes to East or West Germany was accomplished using the database of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V.[9]

* Austria (15)
* Belgium (13)
* Bulgaria (8)
* Czechoslovakia (24)
* Denmark (9)
* Finland (29)
* France (38)
* Germany (76)
* East Germany (25)
* West Germany (51)
* Greece (14)
* Hungary (22)
* Iceland (9)
* Ireland (4)
* Italy (35)
* Malta (1)
* Netherlands (21)
* Norway (25)
* Poland (49)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (7)
* Soviet Union (68)
* Spain (7)
* Sweden (48)
* Switzerland (23)
* Turkey (5)
* Great Britain (55)
* Yugoslavia (23)

## References

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1. ^ Athletics - European Games in Sweden, Glasgow Herald, August 19, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
2. ^ Athletics - Gold Medal for Britain in European Games, Glasgow Herald, August 20, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
3. ^ Athletics - European Championships, Glasgow Herald, August 21, 1958, p. 9, retrieved August 29, 2014
4. ^ Athletics - Gold Medal for Rawson - Disqualification Overruled, Glasgow Herald, August 22, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
5. ^ Athletics - No medals for Britain - Three Fourth Places, Glasgow Herald, August 23, 1958, p. 8, retrieved August 29, 2014
6. ^ Fine Win by Hewson at Stockholm, Glasgow Herald, August 25, 1958, p. 8, retrieved August 29, 2014
7. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014
8. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
9. ^ Ausgewählte LA-Statistiken der DGLD - deutsche Athleten/Innen: Endkampfteilnahme: OS, WM, EM (in German), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V., retrieved 30 August 2014

* "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
* "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

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