European Athletics Championships 1938/3000 m obstacle men

2. European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course for men
city	Paris
Stadion	Stade Olympique
Attendees	12 athletes from 8 countries ( 4 of them did not start )
Competition phase	5th September
Medalist
gold	Lars Larsson ( SWE )
silver	Ludwig Kaindl ( GER )
bronze	Alf Lindblad ( FIN )

Olympic Stadium in Paris 1924

The men's 3000-meter obstacle course at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 5, 1938 in the Stade Olympique in the French capital, Paris .

The competition was not part of the EM program in 1934 and was therefore part of the European Championships for the first time.

The European champion was the Swede Lars Larsson . Second place went to the German Ludwig Kaindl . Bronze went to the Finn Alf Lindblad .

Unofficial bests

World best	9: 05.2 min	Harold Manning	New York , USA	July 12, 1936
Championship record	Competition new in the EM program

Note on the records:

World records over 3000 meters obstacle with the exception of championship records were only made from 1953 on because of the not yet standardized obstacle setups.

final

European champion Lars Larsson

September 4, 1938, 4.15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lars Larsson	Sweden	9: 16.2 CR
2	Ludwig Kaindl	German Empire	9: 19.2 PB
3	Alf Lindblad	Finland	9: 21.4 PB
4th	Kalle Tuominen	Finland	9: 28.6 PB
5	Roger Cuzol	France	9: 42.2 PB
6th	Gaston Tinard	France	9: 43.0 PB
7th	Ferdinando Migliaccio	Italy	9: 45.2 PB
8th	Waclaw Soldan	Poland	9: 58.4 PB
DNS	Johansson	Sweden
	Vitolo	Estonia
	Jean Deloge	Luxembourg
	Medinger	Luxembourg

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  Kalle - actually Kaarlo - Tuominen ( on the photo on the far right after his silver medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin ) came in fourth

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  Wacław Soldan - here in second place in a
  5,000 meter race in 1939 - came eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 10, 2019
• Men 3000m Steeplechase 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, 3000 m obstacle 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

1. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 286
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 3000 m obstacle men , accessed on March 10, 2019