1958 European Athletics Championships
International athletics championship event
6th European Athletics Championships | |
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Dates | 19 – 24 August |
Host city | Stockholm, Sweden |
Venue | Stockholms Olympiastadion |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
Events | 36 |
Participation | 626 athletes from 26 nations |
← 1954 Bern 1962 Belgrade → |
The 6th European Athletics Championships were held from 19–24 August 1958 in the Olympic Stadium of Stockholm, Sweden. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Medal summary
Complete results were published.[7]
Men
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres details | Armin Hary (FRG) | 10.3 CR | Manfred Germar (FRG) | 10.4 | Peter Radford (GBR) | 10.4 |
200 metres details | Manfred Germar (FRG) | 21.0 | David Segal (GBR) | 21.3 | Jocelyn Delecour (FRA) | 21.3 |
400 metres details | John Wrighton (GBR) | 46.3 CR | John Salisbury (GBR) | 46.5 | Karl-Friedrich Haas (FRG) | 47.0 |
800 metres details | Mike Rawson (GBR) | 1:47.8 | Audun Boysen (NOR) | 1:47.9 | Paul Schmidt (FRG) | 1:47.9 |
1500 metres details | Brian Hewson (GBR) | 3:41.9 CR | Dan Waern (SWE) | 3:42.1 | Ron Delany (IRL) | 3:42.3 |
5000 metres details | Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL) | 13:53.4 CR | Kazimierz Zimny (POL) | 13:55.2 | Gordon Pirie (GBR) | 14:01.6 |
10,000 metres details | Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL) | 28:56.0 CR | Yevgeni Zhukov (URS) | 28:58.6 | Nikolay Pudov (URS) | 29:02.2 |
110 metres hurdles details | Martin Lauer (FRG) | 13.7 CR | Stanko Lorger (YUG) | 14.1 | Anatoly Mikhailov (URS) | 14.4 |
400 metres hurdles details | Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 51.1 | Per-Ove Trollsås (SWE) | 51.6 | Bruno Galliker (SUI) | 51.8 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Jerzy Chromik (POL) | 8:38.2 CR | Semyon Rzhishchin (URS) | 8:38.8 | Hans Huneke (FRG) | 8:43.6 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | West Germany Walter Mahlendorf Armin Hary Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar | 40.2 CR | Great Britain Peter Radford Roy Sandstrom David Segal Adrian Breacker | 40.2 | Soviet Union Boris Tokarev Edvin Ozolin Yuriy Konovalov Leonid Bartenev | 40.2 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | Great Britain Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury | 3:07.9 CR | West Germany Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas | 3:08.2 | Sweden Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Johnssson Alf Petersson | 3:10.7 |
Marathon details | Sergei Popov (URS) | 2:15:17.0 CR | Ivan Filin (URS) | 2:20:50.6 | Frederick Norris (GBR) | 2:21:15.0 |
20 kilometres walk details | Stan Vickers (GBR) | 1:33:09.0 | Leonid Spirin (URS) | 1:35:04.2 | Lennart Back (SWE) | 1:35:22.2 |
50 kilometres walk details | Yevgeniy Maskinskov (URS) | 4:17:15.4 CR | Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:18:00.0 | Max Weber (GDR) | 4:19:58.6 |
High jump details | Rickard Dahl (SWE) | 2.12 m CR | Jiří Lanský (TCH) | 2.10 m | Stig Pettersson (SWE) | 2.10 m |
Pole vault details | Eeles Landström (FIN) | 4.50 m CR | Manfred Preussger (GDR) | 4.50 m | Vladimir Bulatov (URS) | 4.50 m |
Long jump details | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 7.81 m CR | Kazimierz Kropidłowski (POL) | 7.67 m | Henryk Grabowski (POL) | 7.51 m |
Triple jump details | Józef Schmidt (POL) | 16.43 m CR | Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS) | 16.02 m | Vilhjálmur Einarsson (ISL) | 16.00 m |
Shot put details | Arthur Rowe (GBR) | 17.78 m CR | Viktor Lipsnis (URS) | 17.47 m | Jiří Skobla (TCH) | 17.12 m |
Discus throw details | Edmund Piątkowski (POL) | 53.92 m CR | Todor Artarski (BUL) | 53.82 m | Vladimir Trusenyev (URS) | 53.74 m |
Javelin throw details | Janusz Sidło (POL) | 80.16 m CR | Egil Danielsen (NOR) | 78.27 m | Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) | 75.25 m |
Hammer throw details | Tadeusz Rut (POL) | 64.78 m CR | Mikhail Krivonosov (URS) | 63.78 m | Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) | 63.68 m |
Decathlon details | Vasili Kuznetsov (URS) | 7865 pts CR | Uno Palu (URS) | 7329 pts | Walter Meier (GDR) | 7249 pts |
Women
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres details | Heather Young (GBR) | 11.7 =CR | Vera Krepkina (URS) | 11.7 | Christa Stubnick (GDR) | 11.8 |
200 metres details | Barbara Janiszewska (POL) | 24.1 | Hannelore Sadau (GDR) | 24.3 | Maria Itkina (URS) | 24.3 |
400 metres details | Maria Itkina (URS) | 53.7 CR | Yekaterina Parlyuk (URS) | 54.8 | Moyra Hiscox (GBR) | 55.7 |
800 metres details | Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS) | 2:06.3 CR | Diane Leather (GBR) | 2:06.6 | Dzidra Levitska (URS) | 2:06.6 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Linda Kepp Nina Polyakova Valentina Maslovskaya | 45.3 CR | Great Britain Madeleine Weston Dorothy Hyman Marianne Dew Carole Quinton | 46.0 | Poland Maria Chojnacka Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Maria Bibro | 46.0 |
80 metres hurdles details | Galina Bystrova (URS) | 10.9 CR | Zenta Kopp (FRG) | 10.9 | Gisela Birkemeyer (GDR) | 11.0 |
Long jump details | Liesel Jakobi (FRG) | 6.14 m CR | Valentina Lituyeva (URS) | 6.00 m | Nina Protchenko (URS) | 5.99 m |
High jump details | Iolanda Balaş (ROU) | 1.77 m CR | Taisia Chenchik (URS) | 1.70 m | Dorothy Shirley (GBR) | 1.67 m |
Shot put details | Marianne Werner (FRG) | 15.74 m CR | Tamara Tyshkevich (URS) | 15.54 m | Tamara Press (URS) | 15.53 m |
Discus throw details | Tamara Press (URS) | 53.32 m CR | Štěpánka Mertová (TCH) | 52.19 m | Kriemhild Hausmann (FRG) | 50.99 m |
Javelin throw details | Dana Zátopková (TCH) | 56.02 m CR | Birutė Zalogaitytė (URS) | 51.30 m | Jutta Neumann (FRG) | 50.50 m |
Pentathlon details | Galina Bystrova (URS) | 4733 pts CR | Nina Vinogradova (URS) | 4627 pts | Edeltraud Eiberle (FRG) | 4545 pts |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 11 | 15 | 9 | 35 |
2 | Poland (POL) | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 7 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
4 | West Germany (FRG) | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
5 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
6 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
7 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Romania (ROM) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
9 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
10 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
11 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
14 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
15 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Iceland (ISL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (18 entries) | 36 | 36 | 36 | 108 |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 629 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 626 as published.[8] A joint German team comprising athletes from both East and West Germany was competing. Assignment of the athletes to East or West Germany was accomplished using the database of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V.[9]
- Austria (15)
- Belgium (13)
- Bulgaria (8)
- Czechoslovakia (24)
- Denmark (9)
- Finland (29)
- France (38)
- Germany (76)
- East Germany (25)
- West Germany (51)
- Greece (14)
- Hungary (22)
- Iceland (9)
- Ireland (4)
- Italy (35)
- Malta (1)
- Netherlands (21)
- Norway (25)
- Poland (49)
- Portugal (1)
- Romania (7)
- Soviet Union (68)
- Spain (7)
- Sweden (48)
- Switzerland (23)
- Turkey (5)
- Great Britain (55)
- Yugoslavia (23)
References
- ^ Athletics - European Games in Sweden, Glasgow Herald, August 19, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
- ^ Athletics - Gold Medal for Britain in European Games, Glasgow Herald, August 20, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
- ^ Athletics - European Championships, Glasgow Herald, August 21, 1958, p. 9, retrieved August 29, 2014
- ^ Athletics - Gold Medal for Rawson - Disqualification Overruled, Glasgow Herald, August 22, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
- ^ Athletics - No medals for Britain - Three Fourth Places, Glasgow Herald, August 23, 1958, p. 8, retrieved August 29, 2014
- ^ Fine Win by Hewson at Stockholm, Glasgow Herald, August 25, 1958, p. 8, retrieved August 29, 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ^ Ausgewählte LA-Statistiken der DGLD - deutsche Athleten/Innen: Endkampfteilnahme: OS,WM,EM (in German), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V., retrieved 30 August 2014
- "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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