1934 European Athletics Championships

The 1st European Championships in Athletics were held in Turin, Italy in 1934.

Results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Chris Berger Netherlands	10.6	Erich Borchmeyer Germany	10.7	József Sir Hungary	10.7
200 m	Chris Berger Netherlands	21.5	József Sir Hungary	21.5	Tinus Osendarp Netherlands	21.6
400 m	Adolf Metzner Germany	47.9	Pierre Skawinski France	48.0	Bertil von Wachenfeldt Sweden	48.0
800 m	Miklós Szabó Hungary	1:52.0	Mario Lanzi Italy	1:52.0	Wolfgang Dessecker Germany	1:52.2
1500 m	Luigi Beccali Italy	3:54.6	Miklós Szabó Hungary	3:55.2	Roger Normand France	3:57.0
5000 m	Roger Rochard France	14:36.8	Janusz Kusociński Poland	14:41.2	Ilmari Salminen Finland	14:43.6
10,000 m	Ilmari Salminen Finland	31:02.6	Arvo Askola Finland	31:03.3	Henry Nielsen Denmark	31:27.4
Marathon	Armas Toivonen Finland	2: 52:29	Thore Enochsson Sweden	2: 54:36	Aurelie Genghini Italy	2: 55:04
110 m H	József Kovács Hungary	14.8	Erwin Wagner Germany	14.9	Holger Albrechtsen Norway	15.0
400 m H	Hans Scheele Germany	53.2	Akilles Järvinen Finland	53.7	Christos Mantikas Greece	54.9
50 km walk	Jānis Daliņš Latvia	4: 49:53	Arthur Tell Schwab Switzerland	4: 53:09	Ettore Rivolta Italy	4: 54:06
4 x 100 m	Germany Egon Schein Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger Erich Borchmeyer	41.0	Hungary László Forgács József Kovács József Sir Gyula Gyenes	41.4	Netherlands Tinus Osendarp Tjeerd Boersma Robert Jansen Chris Berger	41.6
4 x 400 m	Germany Helmut Hamann Hans Scheele Harry Voigt Adolf Metzner	3:14.1	France Robert Paul Serge Guillez Raymond Boisset Pierre Skawinski	3:15.6	Sweden Sven Strömberg Pelle Pihl Gustaf Eriksson Bertil von Wachenfeldt	3:16.6

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High Jump	Kalevi Kotkas Finland	2.00	Birger Halvorsen Norway	1.97	Veikko Peräsalo Finland	1.97
Long Jump	Wilhelm Leichum Germany	7.45	Otto Berg Norway	7.31	Luz Long Germany	7.25
Pole Vault	Gustav Wegner Germany	4.00	Bo Ljungberg Sweden	4.00	John Lindroth Finland	3.90
Triple Jump	Willem Peters Netherlands	14.89	Eric Svensson Sweden	14.83	Onni Rajasaari Finland	14.74
Shot Put	Arnold Viiding Estonia	15.19	Risto Kuntsi Finland	15.19	František Douda Czechoslovakia	15.18
Discus	Harald Andersson Sweden	50.38	Paul Winter France	47.09	István Donogán Hungary	45.91
Javelin	Matti Järvinen Finland	76.66 (WR)	Matti Sippala Finland	69.97	Gustav Sule Estonia	69.31
Hammer	Ville Pörhölä Finland	50.34	Fernande Vandelli Italy	48.69	Gunnar Jansson Sweden	47.85
Decathlon	Hans-Heinrich Sievert Germany	6858	Leif Dahlgren Sweden	6666	Jerzy Pławczyk Poland	6399

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Germany	7	2	2	11
2.	Finland	5	4	4	13
3.	Netherlands	3	0	2	5
4.	Hungary	2	3	2	7
5.	Sweden	1	4	3	8
6.	France	1	3	1	5
7.	Italy	1	2	2	5
8.	Estonia	1	0	1	2
9.	Latvia	1	0	0	1
10.	Norway	0	2	1	3
11.	Poland	0	1	1	2
12.	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
13=	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
13=	Denmark	0	0	1	1
13=	Greece	0	0	1	1

External links

• EAA Official Website
• Athletix