1958 European Athletics Championships
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]
| 6th European Athletics Championships | |
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| Dates | 19 – 24 August 1958 |
| Host city | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Venue | Stockholms Olympiastadion |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 36 |
| Participation | 626 athletes from 26 nations |
Medal summary
Complete results were published.[7]
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
 | 10.3 CR | | 10.4 |  | 10.4 |
| 200 metres |
| 21.0 | | 21.3 |  | 21.3 |
| 400 metres |
| 46.3 CR | | 46.5 | | 47.0 |
| 800 metres |
| 1:47.8 |  | 1:47.9 | | 1:47.9 |
| 1500 metres |
| 3:41.9 CR |  | 3:42.1 |  | 3:42.3 |
| 5000 metres |
 | 13:53.4 CR | | 13:55.2 | | 14:01.6 |
| 10,000 metres |
| 28:56.0 CR |  | 28:58.6 | | 29:02.2 |
| 110 metres hurdles |
| 13.7 CR | .svg.png){kind=small} | 14.1 | | 14.4 |
| 400 metres hurdles |
| 51.1 | | 51.6 |  | 51.8 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
| 8:38.2 CR | | 8:38.8 | | 8:43.6 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Walter Mahlendorf Armin Hary Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar | 40.2 CR | Peter Radford Roy Sandstrom David Segal Adrian Breacker | 40.2 | Boris Tokarev Edvin Ozolin Yuriy Konovalov Leonid Bartenev | 40.2 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay |
Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury | 3:07.9 CR | Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas | 3:08.2 | Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Johnssson Alf Petersson | 3:10.7 |
| Marathon |
| 2:15:17.0 CR | | 2:20:50.6 | | 2:21:15.0 |
| 20 kilometres walk |
| 1:33:09.0 | | 1:35:04.2 | | 1:35:22.2 |
| 50 kilometres walk |
| 4:17:15.4 CR |  | 4:18:00.0 | | 4:19:58.6 |
| High jump |
| 2.12 m CR |  | 2.10 m | | 2.10 m |
| Pole vault |
 | 4.50 m CR | | 4.50 m | | 4.50 m |
| Long jump |
| 7.81 m CR | | 7.67 m | | 7.51 m |
| Triple jump |
| 16.43 m CR | | 16.02 m |  | 16.00 m |
| Shot put |
| 17.78 m CR | | 17.47 m | | 17.12 m |
| Discus throw |
| 53.92 m CR | .svg.png){kind=small} | 53.82 m | | 53.74 m |
| Javelin throw |
| 80.16 m CR | | 78.27 m | .svg.png){kind=small} | 75.25 m |
| Hammer throw |
| 64.78 m CR | | 63.78 m | | 63.68 m |
| Decathlon |
| 7865 pts CR | | 7329 pts | | 7249 pts |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
| 11.7 =CR | | 11.7 | | 11.8 |
| 200 metres |
| 24.1 | | 24.3 | | 24.3 |
| 400 metres |
| 53.7 CR | | 54.8 | | 55.7 |
| 800 metres |
| 2:06.3 CR | | 2:06.6 | | 2:06.6 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Vera Krepkina Linda Kepp Nina Polyakova Valentina Maslovskaya | 45.3 CR | Madeleine Weston Dorothy Hyman Marianne Dew Carole Quinton | 46.0 | Maria Chojnacka Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Maria Bibro | 46.0 |
| 80 metres hurdles |
| 10.9 CR | | 10.9 | | 11.0 |
| Long jump |
| 6.14 m CR | | 6.00 m | | 5.99 m |
| High jump |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 1.77 m CR | | 1.70 m | | 1.67 m |
| Shot put |
| 15.74 m CR | | 15.54 m | | 15.53 m |
| Discus throw |
| 53.32 m CR | | 52.19 m | | 50.99 m |
| Javelin throw |
| 56.02 m CR | | 51.30 m | | 50.50 m |
| Pentathlon |
| 4733 pts CR | | 4627 pts | | 4545 pts |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 11 | 15 | 9 | 35 |
| 2 | | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | | 7 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| 4 | | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 10 | | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (18 nations) | 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]
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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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