European Athletics Championships 1938/400 m men
2. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 400-meter run |
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Stadion | Stade Olympique |
Attendees | 17 athletes from 15 countries |
Competition phase | September 3rd (preliminary) September 4th (final) |
Medalist | |
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Godfrey Brown ( GBR )
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Karl Baumgarten ( NED )
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Erich Linnhoff ( GER )
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The men's 400-meter race at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 3 and 4, 1938 in the Stade Olympique in the French capital, Paris .
European champion was the Briton Godfrey Brown He won ahead of the Dutchman Karl Baumgarten . The German Erich Linnhoff won bronze .
Records
Existing records
World record | 46.1 s |
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Chicago , USA | June 19, 1936 |
Championship record | 47.9 s |
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EM Turin , Italy | September 8, 1934 |
Record improvement
Godfrey Brown improved the EM record in the final by five tenths of a second to 47.4 seconds.
Preliminary round
September 3, 5:30 p.m.
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 | Godfrey Brown |
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48.4 |
2 | János Görkói |
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49.2 |
3 | Carl-Henrik Gustafsson |
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49.8 |
4th | Ottavio Missoni |
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50.3 |
5 | Georges Meyer |
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50.3 |
6th | Abdyl Këllezi |
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55.0 |
Forward 2
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Godfrey_Brown%2C_Archie_Williams%2C_James_LuValle_1936.jpg/330px-Godfrey_Brown%2C_Archie_Williams%2C_James_LuValle_1936.jpg)
Godfrey Brown - here on the far left as a silver medalist in the final at the 1936 Olympic Games - became European champion
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bertil_von_Wachenfeldt.jpg/200px-Bertil_von_Wachenfeldt.jpg)
Bertil von Wachenfeldt, third of the EM 1934 , reached the final again and came in sixth
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Erich Linnhoff |
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49.2 |
2 | Bertil von Wachenfeldt |
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49.7 |
3 | Pierre Smet |
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50.4 |
4th | Jean Cerutti |
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50.6 |
5 | Feri Pletersek |
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50.6 |
DSQ | József Vadas |
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Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Aarne Tammisto |
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48.3 |
2 | Karl Baumgarten |
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48.3 |
3 | John Horsfall |
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49.5 |
4th | Joseph Bertolino |
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49.5 |
5 | Charles stone |
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NT |
final
September 4, 1938, 3:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Godfrey Brown |
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47.4 CR |
2 | Karl Baumgarten |
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48.2 |
3 | Erich Linnhoff |
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48.8 |
4th | János Görkói |
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48.9 |
5 | Aarne Tammisto |
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49.1 |
6th | Bertil von Wachenfeldt |
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50.0 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 9, 2019
- Men 400m 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, 400 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed March 9, 2019