European Athletics Championships 1934/400 m hurdles of men

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter hurdles
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	7 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	September 8th (preliminary) September 9th, 1934 (final)
Medalist
gold	Hans Scheele ( GER )
silver	Akilles Järvinen ( FIN )
bronze	Christos Mantikas ( GRE )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1934 was held on September 8 and 9, 1934 in the Turin Stadio Benito Mussolini .

European champion was the German Hans Scheele , who won ahead of the Finn Akilles Järvinen . Bronze went to the Greek Christos Mantikas .

Existing records

World record	50.6 s	Glenn Hardin	Stockholm , Sweden	July 26, 1934
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

Preliminary round

September 7, 1934
Since only seven participants started in this competition, the first three runners from the two preliminary runs - highlighted in light blue - qualified directly for the finals. A single runner was eliminated, the three athletes of the second heat only had to cross the finish line to be in the final.

Forward 1

Luigi Facelli came in sixth place.

Akilles Järvinen - obviously a specialist in silver medals, he also won silver twice at the Olympic Games in 1928 and 1932 , each time in the decathlon .

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Hans Scheele	German Empire	55.4 s CR
2	Christos mantikas	Greece	56.1 s
3	Ernst Leitner	Austria	56.5 s
4th	Mario Radaelli	Italy	1: 10.0 min

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Akilles Jarvinen	Finland	57.2 s
2	Luigi Facelli	Italy	57.3 s
3	Holger Albrechtsen	Norway	1: 02.7 min

final

September 8, 1934

space	Surname	nation	time
1	Hans Scheele	German Empire	53.2 s CR
2	Akilles Jarvinen	Finland	53.7 s NO
3	Christos mantikas	Greece	54.9 s NO
4th	Holger Albrechtsen	Norway	55.0 s NO
5	Ernst Leitner	Austria	55.2 s
6th	Luigi Facelli	Italy	NT

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 6, 2019
• Men 400m Hurdles 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 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1934, 400 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 world records. 400 m hurdles , accessed on March 6, 2019