1950 European Athletics Championships
International athletics championship event
4th European Athletics Championships | |
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Dates | 23 – 27 August |
Host city | Brussels, Belgium |
Venue | Stade du Heysel |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
Events | 34 |
Participation | 454 athletes from 24 nations |
← 1946 Oslo 1954 Bern → |
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
Complete results were published.[4]
Track
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres details | ![]() | 10.7 | ![]() | 10.7 | ![]() | 10.7 |
200 metres details | ![]() | 21.5 | ![]() | 21.8 | ![]() | 22.1 |
400 metres details | ![]() | 47.3 CR | ![]() | 47.6 | ![]() | 47.9 |
800 metres details | ![]() | 1:50.5 CR | ![]() | 1:50.7 | ![]() | 1:50.7 |
1500 metres details | ![]() | 3:47.2 CR | ![]() | 3:47.8 | ![]() | 3:48.0 |
5000 metres details | ![]() | 14:03.0 CR | ![]() | 14:26.0 | ![]() | 14:26.2 |
10,000 metres details | ![]() | 29:12.0 CR | ![]() | 30:21.0 | ![]() | 30:30.8 |
Marathon details | ![]() | 2:32:13 CR | ![]() | 2:32:45 | ![]() | 2:33:47 |
110 metres hurdles details | ![]() | 14.6 | ![]() | 14.7 | ![]() | 15.0 |
400 metres hurdles details | ![]() | 51.9 CR | ![]() | 52.4 | ![]() | 52.7 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | ![]() | 9:05.4 | ![]() | 9:07.4 | ![]() | 9:08.8 |
10,000 metres track walk details | ![]() | 46:01.8 CR | ![]() | 46:16.8 | ![]() | 46:48.2 |
50 kilometres walk details | ![]() | 4:40:43 | ![]() | 4:43:25 | ![]() | 4:49:28 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | ![]() Vladimir Sukharev Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Nikolay Karakulov | 41.5 | ![]() Étienne Bally Jacques Perlot Yves Camus Jean-Pierre Guillon | 41.8 | ![]() Göte Kjellberg Leif Christersson Stig Danielsson Hans Rydén | 41.9 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | ![]() Martin Pike Leslie Lewis Angus Scott Derek Pugh | 3:10.2 CR | ![]() Baldasare Porto Armando Filiput Luigi Paterlini Antonio Siddi | 3:11.0 | ![]() Gösta Brännström Tage Ekfeldt Rune Larsson Lars Wolfbrandt | 3:11.6 |
Field
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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High jump details | ![]() | 1.96 | ![]() | 1.93 | ![]() | 1.93 |
Long jump details | ![]() | 7.32 | ![]() | 7.22 | ![]() | 7.20 |
Pole vault details | ![]() | 4.30 CR | ![]() | 4.25 | ![]() | 4.25 |
Triple jump details | ![]() | 15.39 CR | ![]() | 14.96 | ![]() | 14.53 |
Shot put details | ![]() | 16.74 CR | ![]() | 15.16 | ![]() | 15.14 |
Discus throw details | ![]() | 53.75 CR | ![]() | 52.31 | ![]() | 48.69 |
Javelin throw details | ![]() | 71.26 | ![]() | 70.06 | ![]() | 69.82 |
Hammer throw details | ![]() | 55.71 | ![]() | 54.73 | ![]() | 53.64 |
Decathlon details | ![]() | 7364 CR | ![]() | 7297 | ![]() | 7175 |
Women's results
Track
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 metres details | ![]() | 11.7 CR | ![]() | 12.3 | ![]() | 12.4 |
200 metres details | ![]() | 24.0 | ![]() | 24.8 | ![]() | 25.0 |
80 metres hurdles details | ![]() | 11.1 CR | ![]() | 11.6 | ![]() | 11.7 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | ![]() Elspeth Hay Jean Desforges Dorothy Hall June Foulds | 47.4 | ![]() Xenia Stad-de Jong Bertha Brouwer Gré de Jongh Fanny Blankers-Koen | 47.4 | ![]() Elene Gokieli Sofya Malshina Zoya Dukhovich Yevgeniya Sechenova | 47.5 |
Field
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High jump details | ![]() | 1.63 | ![]() | 1.63 | ![]() | 1.63 |
Long jump details | ![]() | 5.82 | ![]() | 5.63 | ![]() | 5.57 |
Shot put details | ![]() | 14.32 CR | ![]() | 13.92 | ![]() | 13.37 |
Discus throw details | ![]() | 48.03 CR | ![]() | 42.25 | ![]() | 41.57 |
Javelin throw details | ![]() | 47.55 CR | ![]() | 43.87 | ![]() | 42.75 |
Pentathlon details | ![]() | 3204 | ![]() | 3048 | ![]() | 3026 |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 8 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 8 | 3 | 15 |
4 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
5 | ![]() | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
6 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
7 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
8 | ![]() | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 |
9 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
10 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
14 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (15 entries) | 34 | 34 | 34 | 102 |
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]
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
- ^ Holden Wins Marathon - European Games Open, Glasgow Herald, August 24, 1950, p. 9, retrieved August 24, 2014
- ^ Britain Lose Title - Athletics in Brussels, Glasgow Herald, August 25, 1950, p. 9, retrieved August 24, 2014
- ^ Britain's Eight Gold Medals, Glasgow Herald, August 28, 1950, p. 2, retrieved August 24, 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 372–377, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ^ 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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