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6th European Athletics Championships
Dates19 – 24 August 1958
Host cityStockholm, Sweden
VenueStockholms Olympiastadion
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events36
Participation626 athletes from
26 nations

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 (FRG) 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  Molly 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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)1115935
2 Poland (POL)82212
3 Great Britain (GBR)75517
4 West Germany (FRG)63615
5 Sweden (SWE)1236
6 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1214
7 Finland (FIN)1001
 Romania (ROM)1001
9 East Germany (GDR)0246
10 Norway (NOR)0202
11 Bulgaria (BUL)0101
 Italy (ITA)0101
 Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia)0101
14 Hungary (HUN)0022
15 France (FRA)0011
 Iceland (ISL)0011
 Ireland (IRL)0011
 Switzerland (SUI)0011
Totals (18 entries)363636108

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]

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
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