1958 European Athletics Championships

6th European Athletics Championships
Dates	19 – 24 August
Host city	Stockholm, Sweden
Venue	Stockholms Olympiastadion
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	36
Participation	626 athletes from 26 nations
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The 6th European Athletics Championships were held from 19–24 August 1958 in the Olympic Stadium of Stockholm, Sweden. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Medal summary

Complete results were published.^[7]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Armin Hary (FRG)	10.3 CR	Manfred Germar (FRG)	10.4	Peter Radford (GBR)	10.4
200 metres details	Manfred Germar (FRG)	21.0	David Segal (GBR)	21.3	Jocelyn Delecour (FRA)	21.3
400 metres details	John Wrighton (GBR)	46.3 CR	John Salisbury (GBR)	46.5	Karl-Friedrich Haas (FRG)	47.0
800 metres details	Mike Rawson (GBR)	1:47.8	Audun Boysen (NOR)	1:47.9	Paul Schmidt (FRG)	1:47.9
1500 metres details	Brian Hewson (GBR)	3:41.9 CR	Dan Waern (SWE)	3:42.1	Ron Delany (IRL)	3:42.3
5000 metres details	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL)	13:53.4 CR	Kazimierz Zimny (POL)	13:55.2	Gordon Pirie (GBR)	14:01.6
10,000 metres details	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL)	28:56.0 CR	Yevgeni Zhukov (URS)	28:58.6	Nikolay Pudov (URS)	29:02.2
110 metres hurdles details	Martin Lauer (FRG)	13.7 CR	Stanko Lorger (YUG)	14.1	Anatoly Mikhailov (URS)	14.4
400 metres hurdles details	Yuriy Lituyev (URS)	51.1	Per-Ove Trollsås (SWE)	51.6	Bruno Galliker (SUI)	51.8
3000 metres steeplechase details	Jerzy Chromik (POL)	8:38.2 CR	Semyon Rzhishchin (URS)	8:38.8	Hans Huneke (FRG)	8:43.6
4 × 100 metres relay details	West Germany Walter Mahlendorf Armin Hary Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar	40.2 CR	Great Britain Peter Radford Roy Sandstrom David Segal Adrian Breacker	40.2	Soviet Union Boris Tokarev Edvin Ozolin Yuriy Konovalov Leonid Bartenev	40.2
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury	3:07.9 CR	West Germany Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:08.2	Sweden Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Johnssson Alf Petersson	3:10.7
Marathon details	Sergei Popov (URS)	2:15:17.0 CR	Ivan Filin (URS)	2:20:50.6	Frederick Norris (GBR)	2:21:15.0
20 kilometres walk details	Stan Vickers (GBR)	1:33:09.0	Leonid Spirin (URS)	1:35:04.2	Lennart Back (SWE)	1:35:22.2
50 kilometres walk details	Yevgeniy Maskinskov (URS)	4:17:15.4 CR	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:18:00.0	Max Weber (GDR)	4:19:58.6
High jump details	Rickard Dahl (SWE)	2.12 m CR	Jiří Lanský (TCH)	2.10 m	Stig Pettersson (SWE)	2.10 m
Pole vault details	Eeles Landström (FIN)	4.50 m CR	Manfred Preussger (GDR)	4.50 m	Vladimir Bulatov (URS)	4.50 m
Long jump details	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	7.81 m CR	Kazimierz Kropidłowski (POL)	7.67 m	Henryk Grabowski (POL)	7.51 m
Triple jump details	Józef Schmidt (POL)	16.43 m CR	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	16.02 m	Vilhjálmur Einarsson (ISL)	16.00 m
Shot put details	Arthur Rowe (GBR)	17.78 m CR	Viktor Lipsnis (URS)	17.47 m	Jiří Skobla (TCH)	17.12 m
Discus throw details	Edmund Piątkowski (POL)	53.92 m CR	Todor Artarski (BUL)	53.82 m	Vladimir Trusenyev (URS)	53.74 m
Javelin throw details	Janusz Sidło (POL)	80.16 m CR	Egil Danielsen (NOR)	78.27 m	Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)	75.25 m
Hammer throw details	Tadeusz Rut (POL)	64.78 m CR	Mikhail Krivonosov (URS)	63.78 m	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	63.68 m
Decathlon details	Vasili Kuznetsov (URS)	7865 pts CR	Uno Palu (URS)	7329 pts	Walter Meier (GDR)	7249 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Heather Young (GBR)	11.7 =CR	Vera Krepkina (URS)	11.7	Christa Stubnick (GDR)	11.8
200 metres details	Barbara Janiszewska (POL)	24.1	Hannelore Sadau (GDR)	24.3	Maria Itkina (URS)	24.3
400 metres details	Maria Itkina (URS)	53.7 CR	Yekaterina Parlyuk (URS)	54.8	Moyra Hiscox (GBR)	55.7
800 metres details	Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS)	2:06.3 CR	Diane Leather (GBR)	2:06.6	Dzidra Levitska (URS)	2:06.6
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Linda Kepp Nina Polyakova Valentina Maslovskaya	45.3 CR	Great Britain Madeleine Weston Dorothy Hyman Marianne Dew Carole Quinton	46.0	Poland Maria Chojnacka Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Maria Bibro	46.0
80 metres hurdles details	Galina Bystrova (URS)	10.9 CR	Zenta Kopp (FRG)	10.9	Gisela Birkemeyer (GDR)	11.0
Long jump details	Liesel Jakobi (FRG)	6.14 m CR	Valentina Lituyeva (URS)	6.00 m	Nina Protchenko (URS)	5.99 m
High jump details	Iolanda Balaş (ROU)	1.77 m CR	Taisia Chenchik (URS)	1.70 m	Dorothy Shirley (GBR)	1.67 m
Shot put details	Marianne Werner (FRG)	15.74 m CR	Tamara Tyshkevich (URS)	15.54 m	Tamara Press (URS)	15.53 m
Discus throw details	Tamara Press (URS)	53.32 m CR	Štěpánka Mertová (TCH)	52.19 m	Kriemhild Hausmann (FRG)	50.99 m
Javelin throw details	Dana Zátopková (TCH)	56.02 m CR	Birutė Zalogaitytė (URS)	51.30 m	Jutta Neumann (FRG)	50.50 m
Pentathlon details	Galina Bystrova (URS)	4733 pts CR	Nina Vinogradova (URS)	4627 pts	Edeltraud Eiberle (FRG)	4545 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	11	15	9	35
2	Poland (POL)	8	2	2	12
3	Great Britain (GBR)	7	5	5	17
4	West Germany (FRG)	6	3	6	15
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	3	6
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	2	1	4
7	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	1	0	0	1
9	East Germany (GDR)	0	2	4	6
10	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia)	0	1	0	1
14	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
15	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		36	36	36	108

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 629 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 626 as published.^[8] A joint German team comprising athletes from both East and West Germany was competing. Assignment of the athletes to East or West Germany was accomplished using the database of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V.^[9]

•  Austria (15)
•  Belgium (13)
•  Bulgaria (8)
•  Czechoslovakia (24)
•  Denmark (9)
•  Finland (29)
•  France (38)
•  Germany (76)
  •  East Germany (25)
  •  West Germany (51)
•  Greece (14)
•  Hungary (22)
•  Iceland (9)
•  Ireland (4)
•  Italy (35)
•  Malta (1)
•  Netherlands (21)
•  Norway (25)
•  Poland (49)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Romania (7)
•  Soviet Union (68)
•  Spain (7)
•  Sweden (48)
•   Switzerland (23)
•  Turkey (5)
•  Great Britain (55)
•  Yugoslavia (23)

References

1. Athletics - European Games in Sweden, Glasgow Herald, August 19, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
2. Athletics - Gold Medal for Britain in European Games, Glasgow Herald, August 20, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
3. Athletics - European Championships, Glasgow Herald, August 21, 1958, p. 9, retrieved August 29, 2014
4. Athletics - Gold Medal for Rawson - Disqualification Overruled, Glasgow Herald, August 22, 1958, p. 3, retrieved August 29, 2014
5. Athletics - No medals for Britain - Three Fourth Places, Glasgow Herald, August 23, 1958, p. 8, retrieved August 29, 2014
6. Fine Win by Hewson at Stockholm, Glasgow Herald, August 25, 1958, p. 8, retrieved August 29, 2014
7. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014
8. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
9. Ausgewählte LA-Statistiken der DGLD - deutsche Athleten/Innen: Endkampfteilnahme: OS, WM, EM (in German), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V., retrieved 30 August 2014

• "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
• "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

External links

• European Athletics
• Athletix