European Athletics Championships 1934/110 m hurdles of men

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	17 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary / semi-finals) September 8th, 1934 (final)
Medalist
gold	József Kovács ( HUN )
silver	Erwin Wegner ( GER )
bronze	Holger Albrechtsen ( NOR )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1934 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7th and 8th, 1934 in the Turin Stadio Benito Mussolini .

European champion was the Hungarian József Kovács . The German Erwin Wegner took second place. Bronze went to the Norwegian Holger Albrechtsen .

Existing records

World record	14.2 min	Percy Beard	Oslo , Norway	August 6, 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	József Kovács	Hungary	15.2 s CR
2	Erwin Wegner	German Empire	15.4 s
3	Ivo Buratović	Yugoslavia	15.6 s
4th	Paul Mathiotte	France	15.8 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Gianni Caldana	Italy	15.1 s CR
2	Ernst Leitner	Austria	15.2 s
3	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	15.3 s
4th	Pierre Bernard	France	15.7 s

Bengt Sjöstedt was eliminated in the fourth run.

Forward 3

September 7, 1934

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Christos mantikas	Greece	15.1 s CRe
2	Corrade Valle	Italy	15.1 s CRe
3	Willem Kaan	Netherlands	15.1 s CRe
4th	Willi Welscher	German Empire	15.4 s
5	Ludvík Kománek	Czechoslovakia	15.4 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Holger Albrechtsen	Norway	15.8 s
2	Vladas Komaras	Lithuania	16.6 s
3	Johann Langmayr	Austria	27.3 s
DNF	Bengt Sjöstedt	Finland

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

As fourth in his semi-final race, Sten Pettersson did not make it into the final.

space	Surname	nation	time
1	József Kovács	Hungary	14.8 s CR
2	Willem Kaan	Netherlands	14.9 s NO
3	Ernst Leitner	Austria	15.0 s
4th	Sten Pettersson	Sweden	15.1 s
5	Vladas Komaras	Lithuania	NT
DNF	Gianni Caldana	Italy

Run 2

1	Erwin Wegner	German Empire	14.9 s
2	Corrado Valle	Italy	15.0 s
3	Holger Albrechtsen	Norway	15.1 s
4th	Ivo Buratović	Yugoslavia	15.1 s
5	Christos mantikas	Greece	15.1 s
6th	Johann Langmayr	Austria	30.0 s

final

September 8, 1934

space	Surname	nation	time
1	József Kovács	Hungary	14.8 s CRe
2	Erwin Wegner	German Empire	14.9 s
3	Holger Albrechtsen	Norway	15.0 s
4th	Willem Kaan	Netherlands	15.0 s
5	Corrade Valle	Italy	15.1 s
DSQ	Ernst Leitner	Austria

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 6, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles Athletics I European Championships 1934 Torino (ITA) todor66.com, accessed March 9, 2019
• I European Championship, Turin 1934 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1934, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 6, 2019
• 1st European Men's Athletics Championships 1934 in Turin, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on March 6, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 674 , accessed on March 6, 2019