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1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

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Men's 400 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 400 metres at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 23, 24, and 25 August 1950.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Derek Pugh
 Great Britain
Silver Jacques Lunis
 France
Bronze Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
 Sweden

Results

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Final

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25 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Derek Pugh  Great Britain 47.3 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jacques Lunis  France 47.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt  Sweden 47.9
4 Guðmundur Lárusson  Iceland 48.1
5 Leslie Lewis  Great Britain 48.7
6 Luigi Paterlini  Italy 48.9

Semi-finals

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24 August

Semi-final 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Jacques Lunis  France 47.8 Q
2 Leslie Lewis  Great Britain 47.9 Q
3 Guðmundur Lárusson  Iceland 48.0 NR Q
4 Gösta Brännström  Sweden 48.5
5 Antonio Siddi  Italy 48.9
6 Ragnar Graeffe  Finland 49.5

Semi-final 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Derek Pugh  Great Britain 48.6 Q
2 Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt  Sweden 48.8 Q
3 Luigi Paterlini  Italy 49.2 Q
4 Rolf Back  Finland 49.2
5 Oscar Soetewey  Belgium 51.4
René Leroux  France DNS

Heats

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23 August

Heat 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Leslie Lewis  Great Britain 49.8 Q
2 Ragnar Graeffe  Finland 50.1 Q

Heat 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Derek Pugh  Great Britain 49.5 Q
2 Guðmundur Lárusson  Iceland 49.8 Q

Heat 3

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Jacques Lunis  France 48.9 Q
2 Gösta Brännström  Sweden 49.7 Q
3 Jean-Baptiste Peeters  Belgium 50.8

Heat 4

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt  Sweden 48.8 Q
2 Rolf Back  Finland 49.0 Q
3 Aleš Poděbrad  Czechoslovakia 49.7

Heat 5

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Luigi Paterlini  Italy 49.0 Q
2 René Leroux  France 49.3 Q
3 Zvonko Sabolović  Yugoslavia 49.5

Heat 6

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Antonio Siddi  Italy 49.7 Q
2 Oscar Soetewey  Belgium 49.8 Q
3 Lazar Milosevski  Yugoslavia 50.6

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.

References

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