European Athletics Championships 1938/1500 m men

2. European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Paris
Stadion	Stade Olympique
Attendees	14 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 3rd (preliminary) September 5th (final)
Medalist
gold	Sydney Wooderson ( GBR )
silver	Joseph Mostert ( BEL )
bronze	Luigi Beccali ( ITA )

Olympic Stadium in Paris 1924

The men's 1500 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 3 and 5, 1938 in the Stade Olympique in the French capital, Paris .

The British Sydney Wooderson was European champion , who won ahead of the Belgian Joseph Mostert . Third place went to the Italian Luigi Beccali .

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 47.8 min	Jack Lovelock	OS Berlin , Germany	August 6, 1936
Championship record	3: 54.6 min	Luigi Beccali	EM Turin , Italy	September 7, 1934

Record improvement

The British 800 meter world record holder Sydney Wooderson improved the European Championship record in the final by exactly one second to 3: 53.6 minutes as the new 1500 meter European champion .

Preliminary round

September 3, 1938

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Joseph Mostert	Belgium	3: 57.7
2	Toivo Sarkama	Finland	3: 57.8
3	Sydney Wooderson	Great Britain	3: 58.1
4th	Ingvar Haglund	Sweden	3: 59.5 PB
5	Robert Goix	France	4: 09.0
6th	Renzo Zipoli	Italy	4: 11.0 PB
7th	Frits de Ruyter	Netherlands	NT

European champion Sydney Wooderson, who eight years later also became the European 5000 meter champion

Defending champion Luigi Beccali came in third

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Luigi Beccali	Italy	4: 02.0
2	Niilo Hartikka	Finland	4: 02.3
3	Jim Alford	Great Britain	4: 02.5 PB
4th	Pierre Leichtnam	France	4: 03.1 PB
5	Jan Staniszewski	Poland	4: 03.6
6th	Jean Deloge	Luxembourg	4: 12.1 PB
DNF	Åke Jansson	Sweden

final

September 5, 1938, 4:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sydney Wooderson	Great Britain	3: 53.6 CR
2	Joseph Mostert	Belgium	3: 54.5 PB
3	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3: 55.2 SB
4th	Niilo Hartikka	Finland	3: 56.5 PB
5	Toivo Sarkama	Finland	3: 56.7 PB
6th	Jan Staniszewski	Poland	3: 58.4 PB
7th	Jim Alford	Great Britain	4: 03.0
8th	Ingvar Haglund	Sweden	4: 08.2
9	Robert Goix	France	4: 10.0
DNF	Pierre Leichtnam	France

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 9, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championships 1938 Paris (FRA) on todor66.com, accessed March 9, 2019
• II European Championship, Paris 1938 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 9, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 9, 2019
• 2nd European Athletics Championships 1938 in Paris, France from ifosta.de, accessed on March 9, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed March 9, 2019