European Athletics Championships 1934/100 m men

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	15 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary / semi-finals) September 8th, 1934 (final)
Medalist
gold	Christiaan Berger ( NED )
silver	Erich Borchmeyer ( GER )
bronze	József Sir ( HUN )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

The men's 100-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1934 was held on September 7th and 8th, 1934 in the Turin Stadio Benito Mussolini .

The European champion was Christiaan Berger from the Netherlands , who won ahead of the German Erich Borchmeyer . Bronze went to the Hungarian József Sir .

Existing records

World record	10.3 s	Percy Williams	Toronto , Canada	August 9, 1930
		Eddie Tolan	Los Angeles , USA	August 1, 1932
		Ralph Metcalfe	Budapest , Hungary	August 12, 1933
		Eulace Peacock	Oslo , Norway	August 5, 1934
		Christiaan Berger	Amsterdam , Netherlands	August 26, 1934
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

Preliminary round

September 7, 1934
The preliminary round was carried out in four runs. The first three athletes in each run qualified for the semi-finals - highlighted in light blue.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	11.1 s CR
2	Julije Bauer	Yugoslavia	11.2 s
3	Erich Borchmeyer	German Empire	11.2 s

Forward 2

Christiaan Berger - first sprint king at the European Athletics Championships

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Christiaan Berger	Netherlands	10.6 s CRe
2	Albert Jud	Switzerland	10.8 s
3	Orazio Mariani	Italy	10.9 s
4th	Pierre Dondelinger	France	11.0 s
5	Jānis Ķīvītis	Latvia	NT

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Gerd Hornberger	German Empire	11.1 s
2	Ulderico Di Blas	Italy	11.1 s
3	Karel Bergmann	Czechoslovakia	11.3 s
4th	Mario Postage	Portugal	11.3 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time
1	József sir	Hungary	11.0 s
2	Martinus Osendarp	Netherlands	11.1 s
3	Robert Paul	France	NT

Semifinals

September 7, 1934
In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Orazio Mariani was eliminated in fourth place in his semi-final run.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	József sir	Hungary	10.6 s CRe
2	Erich Borchmeyer	German Empire	10.8 s
3	Martinus Osendarp	Netherlands	10.9 s
4th	Orazio Mariani	Italy	10.0 s
5	Albert Jud	Switzerland	NT
6th	Karel Bergmann	Czechoslovakia

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Christiaan Berger	Netherlands	10.7 s
2	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	10.8 s
3	Gerd Hornberger	German Empire	10.9 s
4th	Julije Bauer	Yugoslavia	NT
5	Ulderico Di Blas	Italy
6th	Robert Paul	France	11.0 s

final

Crossing the finish line over 100 meters ( on the photo from left to right ): Gerd Hornberger (hidden), Erich Borchmeyer, József Sir, Paul Hänni, Martinus Osendarp, Christiaan Berger

September 8, 1934

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Christiaan Berger	Netherlands	10.6 s CRe
2	Erich Borchmeyer	German Empire	10.7 s
3	József sir	Hungary	10.7 s
4th	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	10.8 s
5	Martinus Osendarp	Netherlands	10.9 s
6th	Gerd Hornberger	German Empire	10.9 s

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed June 10, 2017
• Men 100m Athletics I European Championships 1934 Torino (ITA) on todor66.com, accessed March 9, 2019
• I European Championship, Turin 1934 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 10, 2017
• 1st European Men's Athletics Championships 1934 in Turin, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on June 10, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on March 4, 2019