1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 24, 26, and 27 August 1950.^[1]

Medalists

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Armando Filiput	Italy	51.9	CR NR
	Yuriy Lituyev	Soviet Union	52.4	NR
	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	52.7
4	Ottavio Missoni	Italy	53.6
5	Lars Ylander	Sweden	53.9
6	Georges Elloy	France	54.3

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	53.1	Q
2	Yuriy Lituyev	Soviet Union	53.1	Q
3	Ottavio Missoni	Italy	53.6	Q
4	Rune Larsson	Sweden	53.6
5	Yves Cros	France	54.1
6	Torben Johannesen	Denmark	54.5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Armando Filiput	Italy	52.0	CR NR Q
2	Georges Elloy	France	53.2	Q
3	Lars Ylander	Sweden	53.3	Q
4	Timofey Lunev	Soviet Union	53.4
5	Angus Scott	Great Britain	53.7
6	Marcel Dits	Belgium	54.0

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yves Cros	France	54.0	Q
2	Ottavio Missoni	Italy	54.2	Q
3	Timofey Lunev	Soviet Union	54.2	Q
4	Kemal Horulu	Turkey	55.1
5	Fotios Kosmas	Greece	55.7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Armando Filiput	Italy	53.6	Q
2	Georges Elloy	France	54.3	Q
3	Torben Johannesen	Denmark	54.5	Q
4	Franz Fritz	Austria	54.5
5	Reidar Nilsen	Norway	55.8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yuriy Lituyev	Soviet Union	53.4	Q
2	Lars Ylander	Sweden	54.0	Q
3	Angus Scott	Great Britain	54.3	Q
4	Jacques De Moor	Belgium	54.8
5	Doğan Acarbay	Turkey	55.3
6	Igor Zupančič	Yugoslavia	55.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	54.3	Q
2	Marcel Dits	Belgium	54.8	Q
3	Rune Larsson	Sweden	55.2	Q
4	Frans Buys	Netherlands	55.6

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.