European Athletics Championships 1938/50 km men's walk

2. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 50 km walk
city	Paris
Event	Circuit through Paris
Attendees	16 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 4th
Medalist
gold	Harold Whitlock ( GBR )
silver	Herbert Dill ( GER )
bronze	Edgar Bruun ( NOR )

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The men's 50 km race at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was held on September 4, 1938 in the Stade Olympique in the French capital, Paris .

The European champion was the British Harold Whitlock , who won ahead of the German Herbert Dill . Bronze went to the Norwegian owner of the world record, Edgar Bruun .

Records

Existing bests / records

World record	4:26:41 h	Edgar Bruun	Oslo , Norway	June 28, 1936
Championship record	4:49:53 h	Jānis Daliņš	EM Turin , Italy	September 8, 1934

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Record improvement

 Harold Whitlock improved the EM record by 8:02 minutes to 4:41:51 hours.

final

After his Olympic victory in 1936 , Harold Whitlock was now also European champion

September 4, 1938, 1.30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Harold Whitlock	Great Britain	4:41:51 CR
2	Herbert Dill	German Empire	4:43:54
3	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:44:35
4th	Fritz lead white	German Empire	4:45:24
5	Antonio De Maestri	Italy	4:53:56
6th	Evald Segerström	Sweden	4:54:06
7th	Giuseppe Gobbato	Italy	4:56:20
8th	Antonius Toscani	Netherlands	4:58:36
9	Vasile Firea	Romania	5:22:31
DNF	Jaroslav Štork	Yugoslavia
	Frank Bentley	Great Britain
	Sune Carlsson	Sweden
	Jānis Daliņš	Latvia
	Thierry Mathot	Belgium
DSQ	Louis Cambrai	France
	Pierre Bussières	France

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 11, 2019
• Men 50km Walk European Championships 1938 Paris (FRA) on todor66.com, accessed March 11, 2019
• II European Championship, Paris 1938 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, 50 km walk men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 11, 2019
• 2nd European Men's Athletics Championships 1938 in Paris, France from ifosta.de, accessed on March 11, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km walking men , accessed March 11, 2019