European Athletics Championships 1938/800 m men

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2. European Athletics Championships
Athletics pictogram.svg
discipline Men's 800-meter run
city Third French RepublicThird French Republic Paris
Stadion Stade Olympique
Attendees 11 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase September 3rd (preliminary)
September 4th (final)
Medalist
gold gold Rudolf Harbig ( GER ) German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 
Silver medals silver Jacques Lévèque ( FRA ) Third French RepublicThird French Republic 
Bronze medals bronze Mario Lanzi ( ITA ) Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) 

The men's 800-meter run 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 European champion was the German Rudolf Harbig , who won ahead of the French Jacques Lévèque . Bronze went to the Italian Mario Lanzi .

Records

Existing records

World record 1: 49.2 min United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sydney Wooderson Motspur Park in London , UK August 20, 1938
Championship record 1: 51.8 min Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Mario Lanzi EM Turin , Italy September 8, 1934

Comment on the world record:
Sydney Wooderson ran the record over a distance of 880  yards , which corresponds to 804.672 meters.

Record improvements

The German Rudolf Harbig improved the EM record in the final by 1.2 seconds to 1: 50.6 minutes.

Preliminary round

September 3, 1938, 4:20 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final. The fourth of the third heat was added as a finalist. It remains unclear why he, as the runner with the weakest time of all fourth-placed finishers, completed the final.

The division of the preliminary runs also raises questions again. The first run was occupied by only four athletes, while the other two races each had seven runners.

Forward 1

Rudolf Harbig was one of the best middle distance athletes at the end of the 1930s and became European champion by a clear margin
Vice European Champion Jacques Lévèque - here as the winner in the international match France vs. Switzerland in 1938
Bronze medal
winner Mario Lanzi
space Surname nation Time (min)
1 Mario Lanzi Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 1: 53.6
2 Jacques Lévèque Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1: 54.1
3 Lennart Nilsson SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 54.2 PB
4th Frank Handley United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 55.0 PB

Forward 2

space Surname nation Time (min)
1 Rudolf Harbig German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire 1: 54.3
2 Bertil Andersson SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 54.9
3 Paul Faure Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1: 55.2
4th Ferenc Temesvári Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary 1: 55.4
5 Alfred Baldwin United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 56.6
6th Emil Gorsek Yugoslavia Kingdom 1918Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 2: 01.4
7th Charles stone LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg NT

Forward 3

space Surname nation Time (min)
1 Sjabbe Bouman NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1: 56.8
2 Tauno Peussa FinlandFinland Finland 1: 57.7
3 Gusztáv Harsányi Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary 1: 58.4 PB
4th Paul Minder SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1: 58.6 PB
5 Eraldo Colombo Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 1: 58.6 PB
6th Antonio Calado PortugalPortugal Portugal 1: 58.8 PB
7th Waclaw Gassowski PolandPoland Poland 2; 02.0 PB

final

September 4, 1938, 4.15 p.m.

space Surname nation Time (min)
1 Rudolf Harbig German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire 1: 50.6 CR / NR
2 Jacques Lévèque Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1: 51.8 PB
3 Mario Lanzi Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 1: 52.0 SB
4th Sjabbe Bouman NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1: 52.3 NO
5 Bertil Andersson SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 53.0 SB
6th Tauno Peussa FinlandFinland Finland 1: 55.5 PB
7th Paul Faure Third French RepublicThird French Republic France NT
8th Lennart Nilsson SwedenSweden Sweden
9 Paul Minder SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
DNF Gusztáv Harsányi Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed March 9, 2019