1950 European Championships in Athletics
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The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgian
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Track

100 m Étienne Bally
Étienne Bally
Étienne Marcel Bally is a retired French sprinter and a former European champion over 100 metres.Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, where he finished fourth in the final of the 100 metres—his time was equal to that of the bronze medalist, Carlo...


 Early Modern France
10.7 Franco Leccese
 Italy
10.7 Vladimir Sukharev
 Soviet Union
10.7
200 m Brian Shenton
Brian Shenton
Brian Shenton was a track and field sprinter. Born in Doncaster from a working class background, he was a member of the Doncaster Plant Works Athletic Club, later having a successful career in the City and reaching the position of Chairman of Noble Lowndes...


 United Kingdom
21.5 Étienne Bally
Étienne Bally
Étienne Marcel Bally is a retired French sprinter and a former European champion over 100 metres.Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, where he finished fourth in the final of the 100 metres—his time was equal to that of the bronze medalist, Carlo...


 Early Modern France
21.8 Jan Lammers
Jan Lammers (athlete)
Jan Lammers was a Dutch sprinter. He competed in the Men's 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...


 Netherlands
22.1
400 m Derek Pugh
 United Kingdom
47.3 (CR) Jacques Lunis
Jacques Lunis
Jacques Lunis was a French athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for a France in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Jean Kerebel, Francis Schewetta and Robert Chef...


 Early Modern France
47.6 Lars Wolfbrandt
Lars Wolfbrandt
Lars-Erik Ragnar Wolfbrandt was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for a Sweden in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Kurt Lundquist, Folke Alnevik and Rune Larsson....


 Sweden
47.9
800 m John Parlett
 United Kingdom
1:50.5 (CR) Marcel Hansenne
Marcel Hansenne
Marcel Hansenne was a French middle distance runner, who won the bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London over 800 m in a time of 1:49.8 min. The race was won by Mal Whitfield. Hansenne also equalled Rune Gustafsson's 1000 m world record of 2:21.4 in Gothenburg in 1948. Hansenne was born...


 Early Modern France
1:50.7 Roger Bannister
Roger Bannister
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE is an English former athlete best known for running the first recorded mile in less than 4 minutes...


 United Kingdom
1:50.7
1500 m Wim Slijkhuis
Wim Slijkhuis
Willem Slijkhuis was a Dutch athlete, who during his career from 1939 until 1954 for a long time was one of the world’s best middle distance runners...


 Netherlands
3:47.2 (CR) Patrick El Mabrouk
 Early Modern France
3:47.8 Bill Nankeville
Bill Nankeville
Bill Nankeville is a British national champion mile runner and won the AAA mile title four times in five years between 1948 and 1952, his best recorded time was 4:08.8 set in 1949...


 United Kingdom
3:48.0
5000 m Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life...


 Czechoslovakia
14:03.0 (CR) Alain Mimoun
Alain Mimoun
Alain Mimoun is a retired French runner and Olympic marathon champion.-Early life:Born in El Telagh, then in French Algeria, Mimoun lost several years of competition to World War II...


 Early Modern France
14:26.0 Gaston Reiff
Gaston Reiff
Gaston Reiff was a Belgian athlete, winner of the 1948 Olympic title in the 5,000 m.Reiff was born in Braine-l'Alleud, and competed in boxing and football before switching to running. His greatest performance is no doubt his 5000 m title at the 1948 Summer Olympics...


 Belgium
14:26.2
10,000 m Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life...


 Czechoslovakia
29:12.0 (CR) Alain Mimoun
Alain Mimoun
Alain Mimoun is a retired French runner and Olympic marathon champion.-Early life:Born in El Telagh, then in French Algeria, Mimoun lost several years of competition to World War II...


 Early Modern France
30:21.0 Väinö Koskela
 Finland
30:30.8
Marathon Jack Holden
Jack Holden (athlete)
John Thomas Holden was a long-distance runner from England, who won four consecutive national titles in the men's marathon . He represented Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he did not finish...


 United Kingdom
2: 32:13 Veikko Karvonen
Veikko Karvonen
Veikko Leo Karvonen was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the marathon. He won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics...


 Finland
2: 32:45 Fedosiy Vanin
 Soviet Union
2: 33:47
110 m H
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

André-Jacques Marie
 Early Modern France
14.6 Ragnar Lundberg
Ragnar Lundberg
Ragnar Torsten Lundberg was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.Lundberg was born in Madesjö, Kalmar...


 Sweden
14.7 Peter Hildreth
Peter Hildreth
Peter Hildreth was a British hurdling athlete. Born in Bedford, he reached the semi-finals of the 110 metre hurdles at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, finishing 12th. He also represented Britain at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the 1960 Rome Games...


 United Kingdom
15.0
400 m H
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Armando Filiput
 Italy
51.9 (CR) Yuriy Lituyev
 Soviet Union
52.4 Harry Whittle
 United Kingdom
52.7
3000 m St. Jindřich Roudný
 Czechoslovakia
9:05.4 Petar Šegedin
Petar Šegedin (athlete)
Petar Šegedin was a Yugoslav middle distance and long distance runner.Šegedin won the 3000 m steeplechase silver medal at the 1950 European Athletics Championships. He placed 6th in the same event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. His personal best over 3000 m steeplechase was 8:47.8, set in...


 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
9:07.4 Erik Blomster
 Finland
9:08.8
10 km walk
Race walking
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...

Fritz Schwab
Fritz Schwab
Erich Arthur Fritz Schwab is a former Swiss race walker. He won two Olympic medals over 10 kilometres in 1948 and 1952...


 Switzerland
46:01.8 (CR) Emile Maggi
 Early Modern France
46:16.8 John Mikaelsson
John Mikaelsson
John Frederik Mikaelsson was a Swedish athlete who mainly competed in the 10 kilometer walk.He competed for Sweden at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain where he won the gold medal in the men's 10 kilometer walk leading to a Swedish sweep of the gold medals in race walking...


 Sweden
46:48.2
50 km walk
Race walking
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...

Giuseppe Dordoni
Giuseppe Dordoni
Giuseppe Dordoni was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre race walk.He competed for Italy at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the gold medal in the mens'50 kilometre walk event. In 1950 he became European champion.-References:*...


 Italy
4: 40:43) John Ljunggren
John Ljunggren
John Arthur Ljunggren was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometer walk.Ljunggren first appeared in the Olympics in the 1948 Games held in postwar London...


 Sweden
4: 43:25 Verner Ljunggren
 Sweden
4: 49:28
4 x 100 m
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 Soviet Union
Vladimir Sukharev
Levan Kalyayev
Levan Kalyayev
Levan Kalyayev was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for the USSR in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Boris Tokarev, Levan Sanadze and Vladimir Sukharev....


Levan Sanadze
Levan Sanadze
Levan Sanadze was a Georgian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for the USSR in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Boris Tokarev, Levan Kalyayev and Vladimir Sukharev....


Nikolay Karakulov
41.5  Early Modern France
Étienne Bally
Étienne Bally
Étienne Marcel Bally is a retired French sprinter and a former European champion over 100 metres.Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, where he finished fourth in the final of the 100 metres—his time was equal to that of the bronze medalist, Carlo...


Jacques Perlot
Yves Camus
Jean-Pierre Guillon
41.8  Sweden
Göte Kjellberg
Leif Christersson
Stig Danielsson
Hans Rydén
41.9
4 x 400 m  United Kingdom
Martin Pike
Leslie Lewis
Angus Scott
Derek Pugh
3:10.2 (CR)  Italy
Baldasare Porto
Armando Filiput
Luigi Paterlini
Antonio Siddi
Antonio Siddi
Antonio Siddi was an Italian athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres. He also competed in the long jump....

3:11.0  Sweden
Gösta Brännström
Tage Ekfeldt
Rune Larsson
Rune Larsson
Carl Rune Larsson was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles.He competed for Sweden in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 400 metre hurdles where he won the bronze medal...


Lars Wolfbrandt
Lars Wolfbrandt
Lars-Erik Ragnar Wolfbrandt was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for a Sweden in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Kurt Lundquist, Folke Alnevik and Rune Larsson....

3:11.6

Field

High Jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Alan Paterson
 United Kingdom
1.96 Arne Åhman
Arne Åhman
Per Arne Åhman is a former Swedish triple jumper.At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London Åhman was allowed to commence the jumping on the slowly deteriorating track, as the start list was sorted alphabetically, his name being written Aaman in English. His first jump measured 15.40 metres, a new...


 Sweden
1.93 Claude Bénard
 Early Modern France
1.93
Long Jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Torfi Bryngeirsson
 Iceland
7.32 Gerard Wessels
 Netherlands
7.22 Jaroslav Fikejz
 Czechoslovakia
7.20
Pole Vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

Ragnar Lundberg
Ragnar Lundberg
Ragnar Torsten Lundberg was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.Lundberg was born in Madesjö, Kalmar...


 Sweden
4.30 (CR) Valto Olenius
 Finland
4.25 Juho Piironen
 Finland
4.25
Triple Jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

Leonid Shcherbakov
Leonid Shcherbakov
Leonid Mikhailovich Shcherbakov was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump. Born in Olebino, Yaroslavl Oblast, he trained at Dynamo in Moscow....


 Soviet Union
15.39 (CR) Valdemar Rautio
 Finland
14.96 Ruhi Sarıalp
Ruhi Sarialp
Ruhi Sarıalp was a Turkish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the triple jump....


 Turkey
14.53
Shot Put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Gunnar Huseby
 Iceland
16.74 (CR) Angiolo Profeti
 Italy
15.16 Oto Grigalka
 Soviet Union
15.14
Discus
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Adolfo Consolini
Adolfo Consolini
Adolfo Consolini was an Italian athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw....


 Italy
53.75 (CR) Giuseppe Tosi
Giuseppe Tosi
Giuseppe Tosi was an Italian athlete, who mainly competed in the discus throw....


 Italy
52.31 Olli Partanen
Olli Partanen
Heikki Olavi Partanen is a Finnish former discus thrower. Partanen won EM-bronze in the discus throw in Bryssel 1950 with the result 48,69....


 Finland
48.69
Javelin
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Toivo Hyytiäinen
Toivo Hyytiäinen
Toivo Armas Hyytiäinen was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the men's javelin throw during his career....


 Finland
71.26 Per-Arne Berglund
 Sweden
70.06 Ragnar Ericzon
 Sweden
69.82
Hammer
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

Sverre Strandli
Sverre Strandli
Sverre Strandli was a Norwegian hammer thrower, who won the gold medal at the European Championships in 1950 and the silver medal in 1954....


 Norway
55.71 Teseo Taddia
Teseo Taddia
Teseo Taddia was a male hammer thrower from Italy. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1948 and 1952. Born in Bondeno, Ferrara he set his personal best in the men's hammer throw event in 1950.-References:*...


 Italy
54.73 Jirí Dadák
 Czechoslovakia
53.64
Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...

Ignace Heinrich
Ignace Heinrich
Ignace Heinrich was a French athlete who competed mainly in the decathlon. He was born in Ebersheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace....


 Early Modern France
7364 Örn Clausen
 Iceland
7297 Kjell Tånnander
 Sweden
7175

Track

100 m Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics...


 Netherlands
11.7 (CR) Yevgeniya Sechenova
 Soviet Union
12.3 June Foulds
June Foulds
June Foulds is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.She competed for Great Britain in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland where she won the Bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres with her team mates Sylvia Cheeseman, Jean Desforges and Heather Armitage.She returned...


 United Kingdom
12.4
200 m Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics...


 Netherlands
24.0 Yevgeniya Sechenova
 Soviet Union
24.8 Dorothy Hall
 United Kingdom
25.0
80 m H Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics...


 Netherlands
11.1 (CR) Maureen Gardner
Maureen Gardner
Maureen Angela Jane Gardner was a British champion hurdler who at age 19 was a silver medallist in the 80-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She narrowly missed the gold medal to Dutch housewife Fanny Blankers-Koen, with an identical recorded time of 11.2 seconds...


 United Kingdom
11.6 Micheline Ostermeyer
Micheline Ostermeyer
Micheline Ostermeyer was a French athlete and concert pianist.A great-niece of the French author Victor Hugo, and a niece of the composer Lucien Paroche, Ostermeyer, who was Jewish, was born in Rang-du-Fliers, Pas-de-Calais...


 Early Modern France
11.7
4 x 100 m
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 United Kingdom
Elspeth Hay
Jean Desforges
Jean Desforges
Jean Catherine Desforges is a retired female athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump....


Dorothy Hall
June Foulds
June Foulds
June Foulds is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.She competed for Great Britain in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland where she won the Bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres with her team mates Sylvia Cheeseman, Jean Desforges and Heather Armitage.She returned...

47.4  Netherlands
Xenia de Jong
Xenia Stad-de Jong
Xenia Stad-de Jong is a former Dutch athlete.Born Xenia de Jong in Semarang , her greatest success was winning the gold medal as the first runner in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics, together with Netty Witziers-Timmer, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs and Fanny Blankers-Koen...


Bertha Brouwer
Grietjl de Jong
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics...

47.4  Soviet Union
Yelena Gokieli
Sofia Malschina
Sonya Duchovich
Yevgeniya Sechenova
47.5

Field

High Jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Sheila Lerwill
 United Kingdom
1.63 Dorothy Tyler-Odam
Dorothy Tyler-Odam
Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Tyler nee Odam MBE is a British athlete who competed mainly in the High Jump. She was born in Stockwell, London....


 United Kingdom
1.63 Galina Ganeker
 Soviet Union
1.63
Long Jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Valentina Bogdanova
 Soviet Union
5.82 Wilhelmine Lust
 Netherlands
5.63 Maire Osterdahl
 Finland
5.57
Shot Put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Anna Andreyeva
 Soviet Union
14.32 (CR) Klavdiya Tochenova
 Soviet Union
13.92 Micheline Ostermeyer
Micheline Ostermeyer
Micheline Ostermeyer was a French athlete and concert pianist.A great-niece of the French author Victor Hugo, and a niece of the composer Lucien Paroche, Ostermeyer, who was Jewish, was born in Rang-du-Fliers, Pas-de-Calais...


 Early Modern France
13.37
Discus
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Nina Dumbadze
Nina Dumbadze
Nina Yakovlevna Dumbadze was a discus thrower who represented the USSR. Her greatest achievement being a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, she also won the European Championships in 1946 and 1950....


 Soviet Union
48.03 (CR) Rimma Shumskaya
 Soviet Union
42.25 Edera Cordiale
 Italy
41.57
Javelin
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Natalya Smirnitskaya
 Soviet Union
47.55 (CR) Herma Bauma
Herma Bauma
Hermine Bauma was an Austrian athlete who competed mainly in the javelin...


 Austria
43.87 Galina Zybina
Galina Zybina
Galina Ivanovna Zybina was a Russian shot-putter and javelin thrower who won three Olympic medals. She trained at VSS Zenit and later at VSS Trud. Her fame rests primarily on eight consecutive world records in the shot put .-External links:*...


 Soviet Union
42.75
Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

Arlette Ben Hamo
 Early Modern France
3204 Bertha Crowther
 United Kingdom
3048 Olga Modrachová
 Czechoslovakia
3026

Medals table

1.  United Kingdom 8 3 6 17
2.  Soviet Union 6 5 5 16
3.  Early Modern France 4 8 3 15
4.  Netherlands 4 3 2 9
5.  Italy 3 5 1 9
6.  Czechoslovakia 3 0 3 6
7.  Iceland 2 1 0 3
8.  Sweden 1 4 7 12
9.  Finland 1 3 5 9
10=  Norway 1 0 0 1
10=  Switzerland 1 0 0 1
12=  Austria 0 1 0 1
12=  Kingdom of Yugoslavia 0 1 0 1
14=  Belgium 0 0 1 1
14=  Turkey 0 0 1 1

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