1934 European Athletics Championships

1st European Athletics Championships
Dates	7 – 9 September
Host city	Turin, Italy
Venue	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	22
Participation	226 athletes from 23 nations
1938 Paris/Vienna →

The 1st European Athletics Championships were held in Turin, Italy, at the Stadio Benito Mussolini between 7 and 9 September 1934. A contemporaneous report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald . ^[1]

There were no women's events.

Results

Medalists ^[2] and complete results were published. ^[3]

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Chris Berger   Netherlands	10.6	Erich Borchmeyer   Germany	10.7	József Sir   Hungary	10.7
200 metres details	Chris Berger   Netherlands	21.5	József Sir   Hungary	21.5	Tinus Osendarp   Netherlands	21.6
400 metres details	Adolf Metzner   Germany	47.9	Pierre Skawinski   France	48.0	Bertil von Wachenfeldt   Sweden	48.0
800 metres details	Miklós Szabó   Hungary	1:52.0	Mario Lanzi   Italy	1:52.0	Wolfgang Dessecker   Germany	1:52.2
1500 metres details	Luigi Beccali   Italy	3:54.6	Miklós Szabó   Hungary	3:55.2	Roger Normand   France	3:57.0
5000 metres details	Roger Rochard   France	14:36.8	Janusz Kusociński   Poland	14:41.2	Ilmari Salminen   Finland	14:43.6
10,000 metres details	Ilmari Salminen   Finland	31:02.6	Arvo Askola   Finland	31:03.3	Henry Nielsen   Denmark	31:27.4
Marathon details	Armas Toivonen   Finland	2:52:29	Thore Enochsson   Sweden	2:54:36	Aurelio Genghini   Italy	2:55:04
110 metres hurdles details	József Kovács   Hungary	14.8	Erwin Wegner   Germany	14.9	Holger Albrechtsen   Norway	15.0
400 metres hurdles details	Hans Scheele   Germany	53.2	Akilles Järvinen   Finland	53.7	Christos Mantikas   Greece	54.9
50 kilometres walk details	Jānis Daliņš   Latvia	4:49:53	Arthur Tell Schwab    Switzerland	4:53:09	Ettore Rivolta   Italy	4:54:06
4 × 100 metres relay details	Germany Egon Schein Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger Erich Borchmeyer	41.0	Hungary László Forgács József Kovács József Sir Gyula Gyenes	41.4	Netherlands Tinus Osendarp Tjeerd Boersma Robert Jansen Chris Berger	41.6
4 × 400 metres relay details	Germany Helmut Hamann Hans Scheele Harry Voigt Adolf Metzner	3:14.1	France Robert Paul Georges Guillez Raymond Boisset Pierre Skawinski	3:15.6	Sweden Sven Strömberg Pelle Pihl Gustaf Eriksson Bertil von Wachenfeldt	3:16.6

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Kalevi Kotkas   Finland	2.00 m	Birger Halvorsen   Norway	1.97 m	Veikko Peräsalo   Finland	1.97 m
Long jump details	Wilhelm Leichum   Germany	7.45 m	Otto Berg   Norway	7.31 m	Luz Long   Germany	7.25 m
Pole vault details	Gustav Wegner   Germany	4.00 m	Bo Ljungberg   Sweden	4.00 m	John Lindroth   Finland	3.90 m
Triple jump details	Willem Peters   Netherlands	14.89 m	Eric Svensson   Sweden	14.83 m	Onni Rajasaari   Finland	14.74 m
Shot put details	Arnold Viiding   Estonia	15.19 m	Risto Kuntsi   Finland	15.19 m	František Douda   Czechoslovakia	15.18 m
Discus throw details	Harald Andersson   Sweden	50.38 m	Paul Winter   France	47.09 m	István Donogán   Hungary	45.91 m
Javelin throw details	Matti Järvinen   Finland	76.66 m WR	Matti Sippala   Finland	69.97 m	Gustav Sule   Estonia	69.31 m
Hammer throw details	Ville Pörhölä   Finland	50.34 m	Fernando Vandelli   Italy	48.69 m	Gunnar Jansson   Sweden	47.85 m
Decathlon details	Hans-Heinrich Sievert   Germany	6858 pts	Leif Dahlgren   Sweden	6666 pts	Jerzy Pławczyk   Poland	6399 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany  (GER)	7	2	2	11
2	Finland  (FIN)	5	4	4	13
3	Netherlands  (NED)	3	0	2	5
4	Hungary  (HUN)	2	3	2	7
5	Sweden  (SWE)	1	4	3	8
6	France  (FRA)	1	3	1	5
7	Italy  (ITA)	1	2	2	5
8	Estonia  (EST)	1	0	1	2
9	Latvia  (LAT)	1	0	0	1
10	Norway  (NOR)	0	2	1	3
11	Poland  (POL)	0	1	1	2
12	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
13	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark  (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Greece  (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		22	22	22	66

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 223 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event, three athletes less than the official number as published. ^[4]

•   Austria  (AUT) (6)
•   Belgium  (BEL) (3)
•   Bulgaria  (BUL) (2)
•   Czechoslovakia (13)
•   Denmark (2)
•   Estonia (7)
•   Finland (20)
•   France (18)
•   Germany (27)
•   Greece  (GRE) (2)
•   Hungary (17)
•   Italy  (ITA) (41)
•   Latvia (6)
•   Lithuania (3)
•   Luxembourg (4)
•   Netherlands (8)
•   Norway (4)
•   Poland  (POL) (5)
•   Portugal (1)
•   Romania (1)
•   Sweden (18)
•    Switzerland (11)
•   Yugoslavia (4)

References

1. European Athletic Championships - Germany wins six titles, Glasgow Herald, September 10, 1934, p. 19, archived from the original on 15 August 2022, retrieved 14 August 2014
2. "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 25 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
3. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 360–362, archived (PDF) from the original on 28 March 2019, retrieved 13 August 2014
4. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, archived (PDF) from the original on 28 March 2019, retrieved 13 August 2014

External links

• European Athletics website