European Athletics Championships 1938/400 m hurdles of men
2. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 400-meter hurdles |
city | Paris |
Stadion | Stade Olympique |
Attendees | 13 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | September 3rd (preliminary) September 4th (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Prudent Joye ( FRA ) |
silver | József Kovács ( HUN ) |
bronze | Kell Areskoug ( SWE ) |
The men's 400-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 3rd and 4th, 1938 in the Stade Olympique in the French capital, Paris .
The Frenchman Prudent Joye won . Vice European champion was the Hungarian József Kovács . Bronze went to the Swede Kell Areskoug .
Records
Existing records
World record | 50.6 s | Glenn Hardin | Stockholm , Sweden | July 26, 1934 |
Championship record | 53.2 s | Hans Scheele | EM Turin , Italy | September 8, 1934 |
Record improvement
Prudent Joye improved the EM record in the final by a tenth of a second to 53.1 seconds.
Preliminary round
September 3, 1938
The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Prudent Joye | France | 53.7 |
2 | Kell Areskoug | Sweden | 56.1 |
3 | Per Riis | Norway | 56.7 |
4th | Jack Barnes | Great Britain | 57.3 |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Werner Kellerhals | Switzerland | 54.8 NO |
2 | Georg Glaw | German Empire | 55.4 |
3 | Christos mantikas | Greece | 55.5 |
4th | Jacques André | France | 58.5 |
DNF | Jules Bosmans | Belgium |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling | German Empire | 54.6 |
2 | József Kovács | Hungary | 54.8 |
3 | Giuseppe Russo | Italy | 54.8 |
4th | Werner Christians | Switzerland | 56.3 |
final
September 4, 1938, 3 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Prudent Joye | France | 53.1 CR |
2 | József Kovács | Hungary | 53.3 |
3 | Kell Areskoug | Sweden | 53.6 |
4th | Georg Glaw | German Empire | 54.2 |
5 | Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling | German Empire | 54.6 |
6th | Werner Kellerhals | Switzerland | 55.0 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 10, 2019
- Men 400m Hurdles European Championships 1938 Paris (FRA) on todor66.com, accessed March 10, 2019
- II European Championship, Paris 1938 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 10, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, 400 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 10, 2019
- 2nd European Men's Athletics Championships 1938 in Paris, France from ifosta.de, accessed on March 10, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed March 10, 2019