European Athletics Championships 1934 / Men's discus throw

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	18 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 8th (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Harald Andersson ( SWE )
silver	Paul Winter ( FRA )
bronze	István Donogán ( HUN )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

The men's discus throw at the 1934 European Athletics Championships was held on September 8, 1934 in the Turin Stadio Benito Mussolini .

The European champion was the Swede Harald Andersson , who won ahead of the French Paul Winter . Bronze went to the Hungarian István Donogán .

Existing records

World record	52.42 m	Harald Andersson	Oslo , Norway	August 25, 1934
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

execution

On the IAAF page with the discus result there are two lists of results: one with the qualification results and one with the final result. September 8, 1934 is given as the date for both parts of the competition. In the overview of the qualification, however, only those athletes are listed who were not in the final. Presumably, therefore, it is a pure list of the seven throwers eliminated in the qualification. The qualification performances and placements of the eleven participants who reached the final are not listed. In addition to the discus throw, there was only one other technical discipline at these European Championships with a qualification, that was the pole vault, according to the presentation on the IAAF website . There, too, the process is not clear from the overviews offered.

At the Olympic Games during this period, it was common practice in the jumping and throwing disciplines to first conduct a qualifying round on the morning of the competition day if the number of participants was not too small. However, this preliminary round was held in two groups. The final usually took place in the afternoon of the same day.

Zygmunt Hejasz was eliminated in qualification with 42.50 m

qualification

September 8, 1934

Overview of the athletes eliminated in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Expanse
12?	Zygmunt Heljasz	Poland	42.50 m PB
13?	Came Ganchev	Bulgaria	40.28 m PB
k. A.	Petre Havalet	Romania	k. A.
	Aad de Bruyn	Netherlands
	Jānis Dimza	Latvia
	Vilis Rozenbergs	Latvia
	Benvenuto Mignani	Italy

final

The favored world record holder Harald Andersson became European champion by a clear margin

September 8, 1934

space	Surname	nation	Expanse
1	Harald Andersson	Sweden	50.38 m CR
2	Paul Winter	France	47.09 m PB
3	István Donogán	Hungary	45.91 m PB
4th	József Remecz	Hungary	45.54 m PB
5	Arnold Viiding	Estonia	45.51 m
6th	Giorgio Oberweger	Italy	45.38 m SB
7th	Jules Noël	France	45.02 m SB
8th	Emil Janausch	Austria	45.01 m PB
9	Anton Karlsson	Sweden	43.89 m PB
10	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland	42.50 m SB
11	Nikólaos Syllas	Greece	41.53 m SB

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  Vice European Champion Paul Winter

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  Giorgio Oberweger finished sixth

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  Kalevi Kotkas - the day before the European high jump champion - was  tenth in the discus throw

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 6, 2019
• Men Discus Throw 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, discus throw 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. Discus , accessed March 7, 2019
2. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 , accessed March 7, 2019