European Athletics Championships 1938/400 m men

2. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter run
city	Paris
Stadion	Stade Olympique
Attendees	17 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 3rd (preliminary) September 4th (final)
Medalist
gold	Godfrey Brown ( GBR )
silver	Karl Baumgarten ( NED )
bronze	Erich Linnhoff ( GER )

Olympic Stadium in Paris 1924

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	Archibald Williams	Chicago , USA	June 19, 1936
Championship record	47.9 s	Adolf Metzner	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)
1	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	48.4
2	János Görkói	Hungary	49.2
3	Carl-Henrik Gustafsson	Sweden	49.8
4th	Ottavio Missoni	Italy	50.3
5	Georges Meyer	Switzerland	50.3
6th	Abdyl Këllezi	Albania	55.0

Forward 2

Godfrey Brown - here on the far left as a silver medalist in the final at the 1936 Olympic Games - became European champion

Bertil von Wachenfeldt, third of the EM 1934 , reached the final again and came in sixth

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Erich Linnhoff	German Empire	49.2
2	Bertil von Wachenfeldt	Sweden	49.7
3	Pierre Smet	Belgium	50.4
4th	Jean Cerutti	France	50.6
5	Feri Pletersek	Yugoslavia	50.6
DSQ	József Vadas	Hungary

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Aarne Tammisto	Finland	48.3
2	Karl Baumgarten	Netherlands	48.3
3	John Horsfall	Great Britain	49.5
4th	Joseph Bertolino	France	49.5
5	Charles stone	Luxembourg	NT

final

September 4, 1938, 3:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Godfrey Brown	Great Britain	47.4 CR
2	Karl Baumgarten	Netherlands	48.2
3	Erich Linnhoff	German Empire	48.8
4th	János Görkói	Hungary	48.9
5	Aarne Tammisto	Finland	49.1
6th	Bertil von Wachenfeldt	Sweden	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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed March 9, 2019