1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 24 August 1958.[1]

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Popov  Soviet Union
Silver	Ivan Filin  Soviet Union
Bronze	Fred Norris  Great Britain

Results

Final

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sergey Popov	Soviet Union	2:15:17.0	CR
	Ivan Filin	Soviet Union	2:20:50.6
	Fred Norris	Great Britain	2:21:15.0
4	Peter Wilkinson	Great Britain	2:21:40.0
5	Lothar Beckert	East Germany	2:22:11.2
6	Veikko Karvonen	Finland	2:22:45.8
7	Arnold Vaide	Sweden	2:25:54.2
8	Edoardo Righi	Italy	2:26:52.0
9	Jürgen Wedeking	West Germany	2:27:57.0
10	Eino Pulkkinen	Finland	2:28:35.4
11	Aurèle Vandendriessche	Belgium	2:30:26.0
12	Thomas Nilsson	Sweden	2:31:04.2
13	Vito di Terlizzi	Italy	2:31:09.0
14	José Araujo	Portugal	2:31:18.4
15	Franjo Škrinjar	Yugoslavia	2:32:58.4
16	Adolf Gruber	Austria	2:34:09.8
17	Paul Genève	France	2:35:20.4
18	Victor Olsen	Norway	2:35:50.0
19	Artur Wittwer	Switzerland	2:36:13.8
20	Miguel Navarro	Spain	2:38:10.0
21	Cornelius Bleeker	Netherlands	2:38:45.6
22	Arthur Hansen	Denmark	2:41:57.2
	Franjo Mihalić	Yugoslavia	DNF
	Alain Mimoun	France	DNF
	Finn Systad	Norway	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

Austria (1)  Belgium (1)  Denmark (1)  East Germany (1)  Finland (2)

France (2)  Italy (2)  Netherlands (1)  Norway (2)

Portugal (1)  Soviet Union (2)  Spain (1)  Sweden (2)

Switzerland (1)  Great Britain (2)  West Germany (1)  Yugoslavia (2)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014