The 3rd European Athletics Championships were held from 22 August to 25 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway. For the first time it was a combined event for men and women, and for the first time a city in Scandinavia hosted the championships. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2]
| 3rd European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | 22 – 25 August |
| Host city | Oslo, Norway |
| Venue | Bislett Stadion |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 33 |
| Participation | 354 athletes from 20 nations |
Two of the women's medalists from France underwent sex change later. Claire Brésolles became Pierre Brésolles, and Léa Caurla became Léon Caurla.[3]
Men's results
editComplete results were published.[4]
Track
edit- nb The marathon at the 1946 European Championships was completed over a course measuring 40.1 km, 2 km shorter than the official marathon distance.
Field
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump |
 Anton Bolinder (SWE) |
1.99 |  Alan Paterson (GBR) |
1.96 |  Nils Nicklén (FIN) |
1.93 |
| Long jump |
Olle Laessker (SWE) |
7.42 |  Lucien Graff (SUI) |
7.40 |  Miroslav Řihošek (TCH) |
7.29 |
| Pole vault |
Allan Lindberg (SWE) |
4.17 CR |  Nikolay Ozolin (URS) |
4.10 | Jan Bém (TCH) |
4.10 |
| Triple jump |
Valdemar Rautio (FIN) |
15.17 | Bertil Johnsson (SWE) |
15.15 | Arne Åhman (SWE) |
14.96 |
| Shot put |
 Gunnar Huseby (ISL) |
15.56 | Dmitriy Goryainov (URS) |
15.25 | Yrjö Lehtilä (FIN) |
15.23 |
| Discus throw |
 Adolfo Consolini (ITA) |
53.23 CR | Giuseppe Tosi (ITA) |
50.39 | Veikko Nyqvist (FIN) |
48.14 |
| Javelin throw |
Lennart Atterwall (SWE) |
68.74 | Yrjö Nikkanen (FIN) |
67.50 | Tapio Rautavaara (FIN) |
66.40 |
| Hammer throw |
Bo Ericson (SWE) |
56.44 | Eric Johansson (SWE) |
53.54 | Duncan Clark (GBR) |
51.32 |
| Decathlon |
 Godtfred Holmvang (NOR) |
6987 CR | Sergey Kuznetsov (URS) |
6930 | Göran Waxberg (SWE) |
6504 |
Women's results
editTrack
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) |
11.9 =CR | Winifred Jordan (GBR) |
12.1 |  Claire Brésolles (FRA) |
12.2 |
| 200 metres |
Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) |
25.4 | Winifred Jordan (GBR) |
25.6 | Léa Caurla (FRA) |
25.6 |
| 80 metres hurdles |
 Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) |
11.8 | Elene Gokieli (URS) |
11.9 | Valentina Fokina (URS) |
11.9 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Netherlands Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Netty Witziers-Timmer Marta Adema Fanny Blankers-Koen |
47.8 | France Léa Caurla Anne-Marie Colchen Claire Brésolles Monique Drilhon |
48.5 | Soviet Union Yevgeniya Sechenova Valentina Fokina Elene Gokieli Valentina Vasilyeva |
48.7 |
Field
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump |
Anne-Marie Colchen (FRA) |
1.60 | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) |
1.57 |  Anne Iversen (DEN) |
1.57 |
| Long jump |
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (NED) |
5.67 | Lidija Gaile (URS) |
5.67 | Valentina Vasilyeva (URS) |
5.63 |
| Shot put |
Tatyana Sevryukova (URS) |
14.16 CR | Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA) |
12.84 | Amelia Piccinini (ITA) |
12.22 |
| Discus throw |
Nina Dumbadze (URS) |
44.21 | Ann Niesink (NED) |
40.46 |  Jadwiga Wajs (POL) |
39.37 |
| Javelin throw |
Klavdiya Mayuchaya (URS) |
46.25 CR | Lyudmila Anokhina (URS) |
45.84 | Johanna Koning (NED) |
43.24 |
Medal table
edit| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweden (SWE) | 11 | 5 | 6 | 22 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Finland (FIN) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 10 | Iceland (ISL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 |  Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 |  Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 14 |  Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 33 | 33 | 33 | 99 | |
Participation
editAccording to an unofficial count, 354 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event, one athlete more than the official number of 353 as published.[5]
Belgium (11)
Czechoslovakia (29)
Denmark (23)
Finland (20)
France (31)
Greece (5)
Hungary (11)
Iceland (10)
Ireland (1)
Italy (15)
Liechtenstein (2)
Luxembourg (5)
Netherlands (17)
Norway (38)
Poland (18)
Soviet Union (19)
Sweden (54)
Switzerland (14)
Great Britain (24)
Yugoslavia (7)
References
edit- ^ Finnish Athletes Win Three Events - Fast Time in 10,000 Metres, Glasgow Herald, August 23, 1946, p. 6, retrieved August 22, 2014
- ^ Sweden Leads in Oslo Athletics - Britain's Thrilling Relay Race, Glasgow Herald, August 26, 1946, p. 5, retrieved August 22, 2014
- ^ Bouillé, Alain (December 1991), Les grandes du sprint féminin - Revue FFA n°346 NS5 (in French), Fédération française d'athlétisme, p. 32, retrieved 24 August 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 367–372, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
- Results
- "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 25 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
- "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
External links
edit- EAA
- Athletix
- The event at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)