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 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | 23 – 27 August |
| Host city | Brussels, Belgium |
| Venue | Stade du Heysel |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 34 |
| Participation | 454 athletes from 24 nations |
Men's results edit
Complete results were published.[4]
Track edit
Field edit
| 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 edit
Track edit
| 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 edit
| 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 edit
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
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 edit
- ^ 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.