1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 26 and 27 August 1950.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Martin Pike Leslie Lewis Angus Scott Derek Pugh  Great Britain
Silver	Baldassare Porto Armando Filiput Luigi Paterlini Antonio Siddi  Italy
Bronze	Gösta Brännström Tage Ekfeldt Rune Larsson Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt  Sweden

Results

Final

27 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	Martin Pike Leslie Lewis Angus Scott Derek Pugh	3:10.2	CR
	Italy	Baldassare Porto Armando Filiput Luigi Paterlini Antonio Siddi	3:11.0	NR
	Sweden	Gösta Brännström Tage Ekfeldt Rune Larsson Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	3:11.6	NR
4	France	René Leroux Francis Schewetta Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jacques Lunis	3:11.6	NR
5	Soviet Union	Pavel Kiyanenko Gennadiy Modoy Heino Potter Sergey Komarov	3:15.4	NR
6	Finland	Jaakko Suikkari Lennart Lindberg Ragnar Graeffe Rolf Back	3:16.6	NR

Heats

26 August

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Sweden	Gösta Brännström Tage Ekfeldt Rune Larsson Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt	3:17.4h
2	Great Britain	Martin Pike Leslie Lewis Angus Scott Derek Pugh	3:18.4h
3	Soviet Union	Pavel Kiyanenko Gennadiy Modoy Heino Potter Sergey Komarov	3:18.6h
4	Belgium	Albert Lowagie Jean-Baptiste Peeters Oscar Soetewey Marcel Dits	3:19.4h

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Italy	Baldassare Porto Armando Filiput Luigi Paterlini Antonio Siddi	3:15.2h
2	Finland	Jaakko Suikkari Lennart Lindberg Ragnar Graeffe Rolf Back	3:16.4h
3	France	René Leroux Francis Schewetta Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jacques Lunis	3:16.8h
4	Yugoslavia	Marko Račič Branislav Stankovic Zvonko Sabolović Lazar Milosevski	3:19.2h
5	Netherlands	Jan Hofmeester Frans Buys Constant Mahieu	3:19.4	NR

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event. The fourth member of both the Belgian and Dutch relay teams are unknown.

•  Belgium (4)
•  Finland (4)
•  France (4)
•  Italy (4)
•  Netherlands (4)
•  Soviet Union (4)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Yugoslavia (4)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 372–377, retrieved 13 August 2014