| 4th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | 23 – 27 August |
| Host city | Brussels, Belgium |
| Venue | Stade du Heysel |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 34 |
| Participation | 454 athletes from 24 nations |
The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgian capital Brussels. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. [1] [2] [3]
Complete results were published. [4]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump |  Alan Paterson (GBR) | 1.96 |  Arne Åhman (SWE) | 1.93 |  Claude Bénard (FRA) | 1.93 |
| Long jump |  Torfi Bryngeirsson (ISL) | 7.32 |  Gerard Wessels (NED) | 7.22 |  Jaroslav Fikejz (TCH) | 7.20 |
| Pole vault | Ragnar Lundberg (SWE) | 4.30 CR |  Valto Olenius (FIN) | 4.25 | Juho Piironen (FIN) | 4.25 |
| Triple jump |  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) | 15.39 CR | Valdemar Rautio (FIN) | 14.96 |  Ruhi Sarıalp (TUR) | 14.53 |
| Shot put | Gunnar Huseby (ISL) | 16.74 CR |  Angiolo Profeti (ITA) | 15.16 | Oto Grigalka (URS) | 15.14 |
| Discus throw | Adolfo Consolini (ITA) | 53.75 CR | Giuseppe Tosi (ITA) | 52.31 | Olli Partanen (FIN) | 48.69 |
| Javelin throw | Toivo Hyytiäinen (FIN) | 71.26 | Per-Arne Berglund (SWE) | 70.06 | Ragnar Ericzon (SWE) | 69.82 |
| Hammer throw |  Sverre Strandli (NOR) | 55.71 | Teseo Taddia (ITA) | 54.73 | Jiří Dadák (TCH) | 53.64 |
| Decathlon | Ignace Heinrich (FRA) | 7364 CR | Örn Clausen (ISL) | 7297 | Kjell Tånnander (SWE) | 7175 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres | Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 11.7 CR | Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 12.3 | June Foulds (GBR) | 12.4 |
| 200 metres | Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 24.0 | Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 24.8 | Dorothy Hall (GBR) | 25.0 |
| 80 metres hurdles | Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 11.1 CR | Maureen Gardner (GBR) | 11.6 | Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA) | 11.7 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Great Britain Elspeth Hay Jean Desforges Dorothy Hall June Foulds | 47.4 | Netherlands Xenia Stad-de Jong Bertha Brouwer Gré de Jongh Fanny Blankers-Koen | 47.4 | Soviet Union Elene Gokieli Sofya Malshina Zoya Dukhovich Yevgeniya Sechenova | 47.5 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump | Sheila Lerwill (GBR) | 1.63 | Dorothy Tyler-Odam (GBR) | 1.63 | Galina Ganeker (URS) | 1.63 |
| Long jump | Valentina Bogdanova (URS) | 5.82 | Wilhelmina Lust (NED) | 5.63 | Maire Osterdahl (FIN) | 5.57 |
| Shot put | Anna Andreyeva (URS) | 14.32 CR | Klavdiya Tochenova (URS) | 13.92 | Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA) | 13.37 |
| Discus throw | Nina Dumbadze (URS) | 48.03 CR | Rimma Shumskaya (URS) | 42.25 | Edera Cordiale (ITA) | 41.57 |
| Javelin throw | Natalya Smirnitskaya (URS) | 47.55 CR |  Herma Bauma (AUT) | 43.87 | Galina Zybina (URS) | 42.75 |
| Pentathlon | Arlette Ben Hamo (FRA) | 3204 | Bertha Crowther (GBR) | 3048 | Olga Modrachová (TCH) | 3026 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) | 8 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 4 | 8 | 3 | 15 |
| 4 | Netherlands (NED) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Iceland (ISL) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 |
| 9 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 10 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 12 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 |  Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 34 | 34 | 34 | 102 | |
According to an unofficial count, 454 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event, in agreement with the official number of athletes, but three countries less than the official number of 24 as published. [5]
Austria (11) Belgium (48) Czechoslovakia (15)
Denmark (10) Finland (20) France (56)
Greece (12) Iceland (10) Italy (33)
Luxembourg (5) Netherlands (21) Norway (17)
Poland (3)
Portugal (3)
Soviet Union (34)
Spain (2) Sweden (38) Switzerland (19) Turkey (10) Great Britain (48) Yugoslavia (39)
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