European Athletics Championships 1934 / men's hammer throw

1st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Turin
Stadion	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Attendees	11 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	September 8th
Medalist
gold	Ville Pörhölä ( FIN )
silver	Fernando Vandelli ( ITA )
bronze	Gunnar Jansson ( SWE )

Turin Olympic Stadium - then called
Stadio Benito Mussolini

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

European champion was the Finn Ville Pörhölä . The Italian Fernando Vandelli came in second. Bronze went to Gunnar Jansson from Sweden .

Existing records

World record	57.77 m	Pat Ryan	New York , USA	17th August 1913
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

execution

On the IAAF page about the hammer throw there is only a list of results with the final result for all eleven participants. A qualification is not listed there. Accordingly, all eleven competitors started together in a group for the final. It is not clear how many attempts were available to the athletes and whether after the third round, as was common at the Olympic Games at the time, for example, the best six throwers went into a final with three more rounds.

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. This preliminary round was held in two groups. The final with the qualified athletes usually took place in the afternoon of the same day.

final

September 8, 1934

space	Surname	nation	Expanse
1	Ville Pörhölä	Finland	50.34 m CR
2	Fernando Vandelli	Italy	48.69 m PB
3	Gunnar Jansson	Sweden	47.85 m PB
4th	Ossian Skiold	Sweden	47.42 m PB
5	Sulo Parni	Finland	46.83 m PB
6th	Armando Poggioli	Italy	46.57 m PB
7th	Koit Annamaa	Estonia	45.42 m SB
8th	Rudolf Seeger	German Empire	44.52 m PB
9	Petar Goic	Yugoslavia	44.03 m PB
10	Jaroslav Eliás	Czechoslovakia	41.85 m PB
11	Jaroslav Knotek	Czechoslovakia	39.58 m SB

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  European champion Ville Pörhölä - also very successful as a shot putter in the past

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  Bronze medalist Gunnar Jansson

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  Ossian Skiöld reached fourth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 6, 2019
• Men Hammer 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, men's hammer throw 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. Hammer throw , accessed March 7, 2019
2. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Torino 1934 , accessed March 7, 2019