European Athletics Championships 1934/1500 m men

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	14 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary / final)
Medalist
gold	Luigi Beccali ( ITA )
silver	Miklós Szabó ( HUN )
bronze	Roger Normand ( FRA )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

The men's 1,500-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1934 was held on September 7th and 8th, 1934 in the Turin Stadio Benito Mussolini .

European champion was the Italian Luigi Beccali , who won ahead of the Hungarian Miklós Szabó . Bronze went to the Frenchman Roger Normand .

Existing records

World record	3: 48.8 min	Bill Bonthron	Milwaukee , USA	June 30, 1934
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

Preliminary round

September 7, 1934
The qualification mode for this competition was extremely unusual. The fourteen runners were divided into three preliminary runs with very different numbers of participants. Five athletes started in the first run, six in the second. From these two races, the first four qualified for the final. The third prelim consisted of only three runners, all of whom reached the final, although it was by far the slowest of all prelims. There was therefore no time rule.

This division of the race can be partially explained by the fact that some cancellations were made shortly before the competition took place. The eleven athletes who have qualified for the final are highlighted in light blue.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Fritz Schaumburg	German Empire	4: 02.4 min CR
2	Luigi Beccali	Italy	4: 03.2 min
3	Roger Normand	France	4: 03.4 min
4th	Ademar Juerlau	Estonia	4: 04.2 min PB
5	Georg Puchberger	Austria	4: 04.9 min PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time
1	René Geeraert	Belgium	4: 01.2 min CR
2	Paul Martin	Switzerland	4: 01.8 min PB
3	Janusz Kusociński	Poland	4: 01.8 min
4th	Umberto Cerati	Italy	4: 01.8 min PB
5	Bedřich Hošek	Czechoslovakia	4: 04.0 min PB
6th	Eduard Proöm	Estonia	4: 04.8 min PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	4: 19.0 min
2	Martti Matilainen	Finland	4: 19.0 min
3	Robert Goix	France	4: 19.3 min

final

European champion Luigi Beccali

September 7, 1934

The schedule did not make it easy for the eleven finalists because the final took place on the same day as the prelims.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3: 54.6 min CR
2	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	3: 55.2 min SB
3	Roger Normand	France	3: 57.0 min PB
4th	Fritz Schaumburg	German Empire	3: 57.8 min PB
5	Janusz Kusociński	Poland	3: 59.4 min PB
6th	Martti Matilainen	Finland	3: 59.6 min PB
7th	Robert Goix	France	4: 04.0 min PB
8th	Ademar Juerlau	Estonia	4: 05.8 min
9	Paul Martin	Switzerland	4: 06.6 min
10	Umberto Cerati	Italy	TN
11	René Geeraert	Belgium

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  Bronze medalist Roger Normand

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  Janusz Kusociński took fifth place.

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  Paul Martin - here on the right in 1924 with the British 800m Olympic champion of 1924 and 1928 Douglas Lowe - came in ninth place.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 5, 2019
• Men 1500m Athletics I European Championships 1934 Torino (ITA) on todor66.com, accessed March 9, 2019
• I European Championship, Turin 1934 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1934, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 5, 2019
• 1st European Men's Athletics Championships 1934 in Turin, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on March 5, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 670 (English) , accessed on March 5, 2019