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1958 European Athletics Championships

{{Infobox Athletics Championships

|Name = 6th European Athletics Championships

|Colour = #E0ECF8

|Logo = 1958 European Athletics Championships logo.png

|Size =

|Host city = Stockholm, Sweden

|Dates = 19 – 24 August

|Stadium = Stockholms Olympiastadion

|Stadium image =

|Level = Senior

|Type = Outdoor

|Nations participating = 26

|Athletes participating = 626

|Events = 36

|Records set =

|Previous = 1954 Bern

|Next = 1962 Belgrade

}}

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.

{{ Citation

| date = August 19, 1958

| title = Athletics - European Games in Sweden

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qRY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qULAAAAIBAJ&pg=3756%2C5262894

| publisher = Glasgow Herald

| page = 3

| access-date = August 29, 2014

}}

{{ Citation

| date = August 20, 1958

| title = Athletics - Gold Medal for Britain in European Games

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qhY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qULAAAAIBAJ&pg=6118%2C5389980

| publisher = Glasgow Herald

| page = 3

| access-date = August 29, 2014

}}

{{ Citation

| date = August 21, 1958

| title = Athletics - European Championships

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qxY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qULAAAAIBAJ&pg=1368%2C5582522

| publisher = Glasgow Herald

| page = 9

| access-date = August 29, 2014

}}

{{ Citation

| date = August 22, 1958

| title = Athletics - Gold Medal for Rawson - Disqualification Overruled

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qULAAAAIBAJ&pg=4151%2C5620592

| publisher = Glasgow Herald

| page = 3

| access-date = August 29, 2014

}}

{{ Citation

| date = August 23, 1958

| title = Athletics - No medals for Britain - Three Fourth Places

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rRY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qULAAAAIBAJ&pg=2709%2C5804578

| publisher = Glasgow Herald

| page = 8

| access-date = August 29, 2014

}}

{{ Citation

| date = August 25, 1958

| title = Fine Win by Hewson at Stockholm

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rhY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qULAAAAIBAJ&pg=1179%2C5910404

| publisher = Glasgow Herald

| page = 8

| access-date = August 29, 2014

}}

Medal summary

Complete results were published.

{{ Citation

| title = European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK

| url = http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf

| pages = 384–390

| publisher = European Athletics Association

| access-date = 13 August 2014

}}

=Men=

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
{{AthleticsLink|100 metres|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Armin Hary|FRG}}

10.3 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Manfred Germar|FRG}}

10.4

|{{flagathlete|Peter Radford|GBR}}

10.4
{{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Manfred Germar|FRG}}

21.0

|{{flagathlete|David Segal|GBR}}

21.3

|{{flagathlete|Jocelyn Delecour|FRA}}

21.3
{{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|John Wrighton|GBR}}

46.3 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|John Salisbury|GBR}}

46.5

|{{flagathlete|Karl-Friedrich Haas|FRG}}

47.0
{{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Mike Rawson|GBR}}

1:47.8

|{{flagathlete|Audun Boysen|NOR}}

1:47.9

|{{flagathlete|Paul Schmidt|FRG}}

1:47.9
{{AthleticsLink|1500 metres|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Brian Hewson|GBR}}

3:41.9 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Dan Waern|SWE}}

3:42.1

|{{flagathlete|Ron Delany|IRL}}

3:42.3
{{AthleticsLink|5000 metres|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak|POL}}

13:53.4 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Kazimierz Zimny|POL}}

13:55.2

|{{flagathlete|Gordon Pirie|GBR}}

14:01.6
{{AthleticsLink|10,000 metres|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak|POL}}

28:56.0 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Yevgeni Zhukov|URS}}

28:58.6

|{{flagathlete|Nikolay Pudov|URS}}

29:02.2
{{AthleticsLink|110 metres hurdles|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Martin Lauer|FRG}}

13.7 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Stanko Lorger|YUG}}

14.1

|{{flagathlete|Anatoly Mikhailov|URS}}

14.4
{{AthleticsLink|400 metres hurdles|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Yuriy Lituyev|URS}}

51.1

|{{flagathlete|Per-Ove Trollsås|SWE}}

51.6

|{{flagathlete|Bruno Galliker|SUI}}

51.8
{{AthleticsLink|3000 metres steeplechase|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Jerzy Chromik|POL}}

8:38.2 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Semyon Rzhishchin|URS}}

8:38.8

|{{flagathlete|Hans Huneke|FRG}}

8:43.6
{{AthleticsLink|4 × 100 metres relay|Men}}

|{{FRG}}
Walter Mahlendorf
Armin Hary
Heinz Fütterer
Manfred Germar

40.2 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{GBR2}}
Peter Radford
Roy Sandstrom
David Segal
Adrian Breacker

40.2

|{{URS}}
Boris Tokarev
Edvin Ozolin
Yuriy Konovalov
Leonid Bartenev

40.2
{{AthleticsLink|4 × 400 metres relay|Men}}

|{{GBR2}}
Ted Sampson
John MacIsaac
John Wrighton
John Salisbury

3:07.9 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{FRG}}
Carl Kaufmann
Manfred Poerschke
Johannes Kaiser
Karl-Friedrich Haas

3:08.2

|{{SWE}}
Nils Holmberg
Hans Lindgren
Lennart Johnssson
Alf Petersson

3:10.7
{{AthleticsLink|Marathon|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Sergei Popov|URS}}

2:15:17.0 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Ivan Filin|URS}}

2:20:50.6

|{{flagathlete|Frederick Norris|GBR}}

2:21:15.0
{{AthleticsLink|20 kilometres walk|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Stan Vickers|GBR}}

1:33:09.0

|{{flagathlete|Leonid Spirin|URS}}

1:35:04.2

|{{flagathlete|Lennart Back|SWE}}

1:35:22.2
{{AthleticsLink|50 kilometres walk|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Yevgeniy Maskinskov|URS}}

4:17:15.4 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Abdon Pamich|ITA}}

4:18:00.0

|{{flagathlete|Max Weber|GDR|1949}}

4:19:58.6
{{AthleticsLink|High jump|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Rickard Dahl|SWE}}

2.12 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Jiří Lanský|TCH}}

2.10 m

|{{flagathlete|Stig Pettersson|SWE}}

2.10 m
{{AthleticsLink|Pole vault|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Eeles Landström|FIN}}

4.50 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Manfred Preussger|GDR|1949}}

4.50 m

|{{flagathlete|Vladimir Bulatov|URS}}

4.50 m
{{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Igor Ter-Ovanesyan|URS}}

7.81 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Kazimierz Kropidłowski|POL}}

7.67 m

|{{flagathlete|Henryk Grabowski|POL}}

7.51 m
{{AthleticsLink|Triple jump|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Józef Schmidt|POL}}

16.43 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Oleg Ryakhovskiy|URS}}

16.02 m

|{{flagathlete|Vilhjálmur Einarsson|ISL}}

16.00 m
{{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Arthur Rowe|GBR}}

17.78 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Viktor Lipsnis|URS}}

17.47 m

|{{flagathlete|Jiří Skobla|TCH}}

17.12 m
{{AthleticsLink|Discus throw|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Edmund Piątkowski|POL}}

53.92 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Todor Artarski|BUL|1946}}

53.82 m

|{{flagathlete|Vladimir Trusenyev|URS}}

53.74 m
{{AthleticsLink|Javelin throw|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Janusz Sidło|POL}}

80.16 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Egil Danielsen|NOR}}

78.27 m

|{{flagathlete|Gergely Kulcsár|HUN|1949}}

75.25 m
{{AthleticsLink|Hammer throw|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Tadeusz Rut|POL}}

64.78 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Mikhail Krivonosov|URS}}

63.78 m

|{{flagathlete|Gyula Zsivótzky|HUN|1949}}

63.68 m
{{AthleticsLink|Decathlon|Men}}

|{{flagathlete|Vasili Kuznetsov|URS}}

7865 pts {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Uno Palu|URS}}

7329 pts

|{{flagathlete|Walter Meier|GDR|1949}}

7249 pts

=Women=

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
{{AthleticsLink|100 metres|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Heather Young|GBR}}

11.7 ={{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Vera Krepkina|URS}}

11.7

|{{flagathlete|Christa Stubnick|GDR|1949}}

11.8
{{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Barbara Janiszewska|POL}}

24.1

|{{flagathlete|Hannelore Sadau|GDR|1949}}

24.3

|{{flagathlete|Maria Itkina|URS}}

24.3
{{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Maria Itkina|URS}}

53.7 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Yekaterina Parlyuk|URS}}

54.8

|{{flagathlete|Moyra Hiscox|GBR}}

55.7
{{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Yelizaveta Yermolayeva|URS}}

2:06.3 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Diane Leather|GBR}}

2:06.6

|{{flagathlete|Dzidra Levitska|URS}}

2:06.6
{{AthleticsLink|4 × 100 metres relay|Women}}

|{{URS}}
Vera Krepkina
Linda Kepp
Nina Polyakova
Valentina Maslovskaya

45.3 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{GBR2}}
Madeleine Weston
Dorothy Hyman
Marianne Dew
Carole Quinton

46.0

|{{POL}}
Maria Chojnacka
Barbara Janiszewska
Celina Jesionowska
Maria Bibro

46.0
{{AthleticsLink|80 metres hurdles|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Galina Bystrova|URS}}

10.9 {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Zenta Kopp|FRG}}

10.9

|{{flagathlete|Gisela Birkemeyer|GDR|1949}}

11.0
{{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Liesel Jakobi|FRG}}

6.14 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Valentina Lituyeva|URS}}

6.00 m

|{{flagathlete|Nina Protchenko|URS}}

5.99 m
{{AthleticsLink|High jump|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Iolanda Balaş|ROU|1952}}

1.77 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Taisia Chenchik|URS}}

1.70 m

|{{flagathlete|Dorothy Shirley|GBR}}

1.67 m
{{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Marianne Werner|FRG}}

15.74 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Tamara Tyshkevich|URS}}

15.54 m

|{{flagathlete|Tamara Press|URS}}

15.53 m
{{AthleticsLink|Discus throw|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Tamara Press|URS}}

53.32 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Štěpánka Mertová|TCH}}

52.19 m

|{{flagathlete|Kriemhild Hausmann|FRG}}

50.99 m
{{AthleticsLink|Javelin throw|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Dana Zátopková|TCH}}

56.02 m {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Birutė Zalogaitytė|URS}}

51.30 m

|{{flagathlete|Jutta Neumann|FRG}}

50.50 m
{{AthleticsLink|Pentathlon|Women}}

|{{flagathlete|Galina Bystrova|URS}}

4733 pts {{AthAbbr|CR|European Athletics Championships}}

|{{flagathlete|Nina Vinogradova|URS}}

4627 pts

|{{flagathlete|Edeltraud Eiberle|FRG}}

4545 pts

Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template =

| event =

| team =

| gold_URS = 11 | silver_URS = 15 | bronze_URS = 9

| gold_POL = 8 | silver_POL = 2 | bronze_POL = 2

| gold_GBR = 7 | silver_GBR = 5 | bronze_GBR = 5

| gold_FRG = 6 | silver_FRG = 3 | bronze_FRG = 6

| gold_SWE = 1 | silver_SWE = 2 | bronze_SWE = 3

| gold_TCH = 1 | silver_TCH = 2 | bronze_TCH = 1

| gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 0 | bronze_FIN = 0

| gold_ROM = 1 | silver_ROM = 0 | bronze_ROM = 0 | name_ROM = {{flagteam|ROM|1952}}

| gold_GDR = 0 | silver_GDR = 2 | bronze_GDR = 4 | name_GDR = {{flagteam|GDR|1949}}

| gold_NOR = 0 | silver_NOR = 2 | bronze_NOR = 0

| gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 1 | bronze_BUL = 0 | name_BUL = {{flagteam|BUL|1946}}

| gold_SFR = 0 | silver_SFR = 1 | bronze_SFR = 0 | name_SFR = {{flagteam|SFR Yugoslavia}}

| gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 1 | bronze_ITA = 0

| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 2 | name_HUN = {{flagteam|HUN|1949}}

| gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 1

| gold_ISL = 0 | silver_ISL = 0 | bronze_ISL = 1

| gold_SUI = 0 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 1

| gold_IRL = 0 | silver_IRL = 0 | bronze_IRL = 1

}}

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.

{{ Citation

| title = European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK

| url = http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf

| page = 4

| publisher = European Athletics Association

| access-date = 13 August 2014

}}

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.

{{ Citation

| title = Ausgewählte LA-Statistiken der DGLD - deutsche Athleten/Innen: Endkampfteilnahme: OS, WM, EM

| url = http://www.leichtathletik-dgld.de/

| publisher = Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V.

| language = de

| access-date = 30 August 2014

}}

{{div col|colwidth=22em}}

  • {{flagcountry|AUT}} (15)
  • {{flagcountry|BEL}} (13)
  • {{flagcountry|BUL|1946}} (8)
  • {{flagcountry|TCH}} (24)
  • {{flagcountry|DEN}} (9)
  • {{flagcountry|FIN}} (29)
  • {{flagcountry|FRA}} (38)
  • {{flagcountry|GER}} (76)
  • {{flagcountry|GDR|1949}} (25)
  • {{flagcountry|FRG}} (51)
  • {{flagcountry|GRE|old}} (14)
  • {{flagcountry|HUN}} (22)
  • {{flagcountry|ISL}} (9)
  • {{flagcountry|IRL}} (4)
  • {{flagcountry|ITA}} (35)
  • {{flagcountry|MLT|1943}} (1)
  • {{flagcountry|NED}} (21)
  • {{flagcountry|NOR}} (25)
  • {{flagcountry|POL}} (49)
  • {{flagcountry|POR}} (1)
  • {{flagcountry|ROU|1952}} (7)
  • {{flagcountry|URS|1955}} (68)
  • {{flagcountry|ESP|1945}} (7)
  • {{flagcountry|SWE}} (48)
  • {{flagcountry|SUI}} (23)
  • {{flagcountry|TUR}} (5)
  • {{flagcountry|GBR}} (55)
  • {{flagcountry|SFR Yugoslavia}} (23)

{{div col end}}

References

{{Reflist}}

  • {{cite web|year=2007|title=European Championships (Men)| work=gbrathletics.com|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ec.htm|access-date=21 August 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100902061940/http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ec.htm| archive-date= 2 September 2010 | url-status= live}}
  • {{cite web|year=2007|title=European Championships (Women)| work=gbrathletics.com|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ecw.htm|access-date=21 August 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100922003729/http://gbrathletics.com/ic/ecw.htm| archive-date= 22 September 2010 | url-status= live}}

External links

  • [http://www.european-athletics.org/ European Athletics]
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