European Athletics Championships 1938/400 m hurdles of men

2. European Athletics Championships
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 )

Olympic Stadium in Paris 1924

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

European champion Prudent Joye

Bronze medalist Kell Areskoug

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
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)
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)
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

The 400 m hurdlers at the start of the home straight ( from left to right ): Werner Kellerhals, Georg Glaw, Kell Areskoug, Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling, József Kovács, Prudent Joye

final

September 4, 1938, 3 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed March 10, 2019