3rd European Athletics Championships | |
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Dates | 22 – 25 August |
Host city | Oslo, Norway |
Venue | Bislett Stadion |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
Events | 33 |
Participation | 354 athletes from 20 nations |
The 3rd European Athletics Championships were held from 22 August to 25 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway. For the first time it was a combined event for men and women, and for the first time a city in Scandinavia hosted the championships. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2]
Two of the women's medalists from France underwent sex change later. Claire Brésolles became Pierre Brésolles, and Léa Caurla became Léon Caurla.[3]
Men's results
Complete results were published.[4]
Track
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres |
Jack Archer (GBR) | 10.6 | Haakon Tranberg (NOR) | 10.7 | Carlo Monti (ITA) | 10.8 |
200 metres |
Nikolay Karakulov (URS) | 21.6 | Haakon Tranberg (NOR) | 21.7 | Jiří David (TCH) | 21.8 |
400 metres |
Niels Holst-Sørensen (DEN) | 47.9 | Jacques Lunis (FRA) | 48.3 | Derek Pugh (GBR) | 48.9 |
800 metres |
Rune Gustafsson (SWE) | 1:51.0 | Niels Holst-Sørensen (DEN) | 1:51.1 | Marcel Hansenne (FRA) | 1:51.2 |
1500 metres |
Lennart Strand (SWE) | 3:48.0 CR | Henry Eriksson (SWE) | 3:48.8 | Erik Jørgensen (DEN) | 3:52.8 |
5000 metres |
Sydney Wooderson (GBR) | 14:08.6 CR | Wim Slijkhuis (NED) | 14:14.0 | Evert Nyberg (SWE) | 14:23.2 |
10,000 metres |
Viljo Heino (FIN) | 29:52.0 CR | Helge Perälä (FIN) | 30:31.4 | András Csaplár (HUN) | 30:35.2 |
Marathon [nb] |
Mikko Hietanen (FIN) | 2:24:55 | Väinö Muinonen (FIN) | 2:26:08 | Yakov Punko (URS) | 2:26:21 |
110 metres hurdles |
Håkan Lidman (SWE) | 14.6 | Hippolyte Braekman (BEL) | 14.9 | Väinö Suvivuo (FIN) | 15.0 |
400 metres hurdles |
Bertel Storskrubb (FIN) | 52.2 CR | Sixten Larsson (SWE) | 52.4 | Rune Larsson (SWE) | 52.5 |
3000 metres steeplechase |
Raphaël Pujazon (FRA) | 9:01.4 CR | Erik Elmsäter (SWE) | 9:11.0 | Tore Sjöstrand (SWE) | 9:14.0 |
10,000 metres track walk |
John Mikaelsson (SWE) | 46:05.2 | Fritz Schwab (SUI) | 47:03.6 | Emile Maggi (FRA) | 48:10.4 |
50 kilometres walk |
John Ljunggren (SWE) | 4:38:20 CR | Harry Forbes (GBR) | 4:42:58 | Charles Megnin (GBR) | 4:57:04 |
4 × 100 metres relay |
Sweden Stig Danielsson Inge Nilsson Olle Laessker Stig Håkansson | 41.5 | France Agathon Lepève Julien Lebas Pierre Gonon René Valmy | 42.0 | Czechoslovakia Mirko Paráček Leopold Láznička Miroslav Řihošek Jiří David | 42.2 |
4 × 400 metres relay |
France Bernard Santona Yves Cros Robert Chef d’Hotel Jacques Lunis | 3:14.4 | Great Britain Ronald Ede Derek Pugh Bernard Elliot Bill Roberts | 3:14.5 | Sweden Folke Alnevik Stig Lindgård Sven-Erik Nolinge Tore Sten | 3:15.0 |
- nb The marathon at the 1946 European Championships was completed over a course measuring 40.1 km, 2 km shorter than the official marathon distance.
Field
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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High jump |
Anton Bolinder (SWE) | 1.99 | Alan Paterson (GBR) | 1.96 | Nils Nicklén (FIN) | 1.93 |
Long jump |
Olle Laessker (SWE) | 7.42 | Lucien Graff (SUI) | 7.40 | Miroslav Řihošek (TCH) | 7.29 |
Pole vault |
Allan Lindberg (SWE) | 4.17 CR | Nikolay Ozolin (URS) | 4.10 | Jan Bém (TCH) | 4.10 |
Triple jump |
Valdemar Rautio (FIN) | 15.17 | Bertil Johnsson (SWE) | 15.15 | Arne Åhman (SWE) | 14.96 |
Shot put |
Gunnar Huseby (ISL) | 15.56 | Dmitriy Goryainov (URS) | 15.25 | Yrjö Lehtilä (FIN) | 15.23 |
Discus throw |
Adolfo Consolini (ITA) | 53.23 CR | Giuseppe Tosi (ITA) | 50.39 | Veikko Nyqvist (FIN) | 48.14 |
Javelin throw |
Lennart Atterwall (SWE) | 68.74 | Yrjö Nikkanen (FIN) | 67.50 | Tapio Rautavaara (FIN) | 66.40 |
Hammer throw |
Bo Ericson (SWE) | 56.44 | Eric Johansson (SWE) | 53.54 | Duncan Clark (GBR) | 51.32 |
Decathlon |
Godtfred Holmvang (NOR) | 6987 CR | Sergey Kuznetsov (URS) | 6930 | Göran Waxberg (SWE) | 6504 |
Women's results
Track
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 metres |
Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 11.9 =CR | Winifred Jordan (GBR) | 12.1 | Claire Brésolles (FRA) | 12.2 |
200 metres |
Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 25.4 | Winifred Jordan (GBR) | 25.6 | Léa Caurla (FRA) | 25.6 |
80 metres hurdles |
Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 11.8 | Elene Gokieli (URS) | 11.9 | Valentina Fokina (URS) | 11.9 |
4 × 100 metres relay |
Netherlands Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Netty Witziers-Timmer Marta Adema Fanny Blankers-Koen | 47.8 | France Léa Caurla Anne-Marie Colchen Claire Brésolles Monique Drilhon | 48.5 | Soviet Union Yevgeniya Sechenova Valentina Fokina Elene Gokieli Valentina Vasilyeva | 48.7 |
Field
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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High jump |
Anne-Marie Colchen (FRA) | 1.60 | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 1.57 | Anne Iversen (DEN) | 1.57 |
Long jump |
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (NED) | 5.67 | Lidija Gaile (URS) | 5.67 | Valentina Vasilyeva (URS) | 5.63 |
Shot put |
Tatyana Sevryukova (URS) | 14.16 CR | Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA) | 12.84 | Amelia Piccinini (ITA) | 12.22 |
Discus throw |
Nina Dumbadze (URS) | 44.21 | Ann Niesink (NED) | 40.46 | Jadwiga Wajs (POL) | 39.37 |
Javelin throw |
Klavdiya Mayuchaya (URS) | 46.25 CR | Lyudmila Anokhina (URS) | 45.84 | Johanna Koning (NED) | 43.24 |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Sweden (SWE) | 11 | 5 | 6 | 22 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
3 | Finland (FIN) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
4 | France (FRA) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
5 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
7 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
8 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
10 | Iceland (ISL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
11 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
12 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
13 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
14 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (15 entries) | 33 | 33 | 33 | 99 |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 354 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event, one athlete more than the official number of 353 as published.[5]
- Belgium (11)
- Czechoslovakia (29)
- Denmark (23)
- Finland (20)
- France (31)
- Greece (5)
- Hungary (11)
- Iceland (10)
- Ireland (1)
- Italy (15)
- Liechtenstein (2)
- Luxembourg (5)
- Netherlands (17)
- Norway (38)
- Poland (18)
- Soviet Union (19)
- Sweden (54)
- Switzerland (14)
- Great Britain (24)
- Yugoslavia (7)
References
- ↑ Finnish Athletes Win Three Events - Fast Time in 10,000 Metres, Glasgow Herald, August 23, 1946, p. 6, retrieved August 22, 2014
- ↑ Sweden Leads in Oslo Athletics - Britain's Thrilling Relay Race, Glasgow Herald, August 26, 1946, p. 5, retrieved August 22, 2014
- ↑ Bouillé, Alain (December 1991), Les grandes du sprint féminin - Revue FFA n°346 NS5 (in French), Fédération française d'athlétisme, p. 32, retrieved 24 August 2014
- ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 367–372, 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.
External links
- EAA
- Athletix
- The event at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)
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