1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

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Men's 800 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 800 metres at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 19, 20, and 21 August 1958. [1]

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Medalists

Gold Mike Rawson
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Silver Audun Boysen
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Bronze Paul Schmidt
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany

Results

Final

21 August

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Mike Rawson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:47.8
Silver medal icon.svg Audun Boysen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:47.9
Bronze medal icon.svg Paul Schmidt Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:47.9
4 Zbigniew Makomaski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:48.0
5 Lajos Szentgáli Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:48.3
6 Herbert Missalla Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:48.5
7 Derek Johnson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:49.2
8 Christian Wägli Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 1:52.0

Semi-finals

20 August

Semi-final 1

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Derek Johnson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:48.8Q
2 Christian Wägli Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 1:49.0Q
3 Zbigniew Makomaski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:49.1Q
4 Herbert Missalla Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:49.2Q
5 Lajos Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:49.2
6 Olavi Salonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:51.8
7 Svavar Markússon Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 1:54.6
8 Hendrik Haus Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:59.0

Semi-final 2

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Paul Schmidt Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:49.5Q
2 Lajos Szentgáli Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:49.8Q
3 Audun Boysen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:49.9Q
4 Mike Rawson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:50.1Q
5 Evangelos Depastas Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg  Greece 1:50.3
6 Gianfranco Baraldi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:51.2
7 Rolf Gottfridsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:52.1
Tadeusz Kaźmierski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland DQ

Heats

19 August

Heat 1

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Derek Johnson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:49.5Q
2 Lajos Szentgáli Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:50.0Q
3 Svavar Markússon Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 1:50.5NR Q
4 Hendrik Haus Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:51.0Q
5 Cesáreo Marín Flag of Spain (1945-1977).svg  Spain 1:52.8

Heat 2

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Mike Rawson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:50.4Q
2 Evangelos Depastas Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg  Greece 1:50.7Q
3 Olavi Salonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:50.7Q
4 Zbigniew Makomaski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:51.2Q
5 Gérard Vervoort Flag of France.svg  France 1:51.6
6 Hendrik Heida Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:52.3

Heat 3

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Herbert Missalla Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:50.0Q
2 Audun Boysen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:50.5Q
3 Christian Wägli Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 1:50.6Q
4 Tadeusz Kaźmierski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:50.8Q
5 Dimitrios Konstantinidis Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg  Greece 1:50.9
6 Rudolf Klaban Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:51.3

Heat 4

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Paul Schmidt Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:51.4Q
2 Gianfranco Baraldi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:51.8Q
3 Lajos Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:52.0Q
4 Rolf Gottfridsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:52.0Q
5 Čeněk Hanka Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:52.1
6 Robert Misplon Flag of France.svg  France 1:54.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

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The men's decathlon at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 20 and 21 August 1958.

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References

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