European Athletics Championships 1938 / Men's discus throw

2. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Paris
Stadion	Stade Olympique
Attendees	16 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	5th September
Medalist
gold	Willy Schröder ( GER )
silver	Giorgio Oberweger ( ITA )
bronze	Gunnar Bergh ( Sweden )

Olympic Stadium in Paris 1924

The men's discus throw at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was held on September 5, 1938 in the Stade Olympique in the French capital, Paris .

European champion was the German world record holder Willy Schröder . He won ahead of the Italian Giorgio Oberweger . The Swede Gunnar Bergh won bronze .

Existing records

World record	53.10 m	Willy Schröder	Magdeburg , Germany	April 28, 1935
Championship record	50.38 m	Harald Andersson	EM Turin , Italy	September 8, 1934

The European Championship record was not improved at these European championships.

execution

On the IAAF website there is only one list of results for all technical disciplines with the final result for all participants. A qualification is not listed there for any jumping, pushing or throwing competition. Accordingly, all sixteen discus throwers competed together in one group for the final. It is not clear how many attempts were available to the athletes and whether after the third round, as was common at the Olympic Games at the time, for example, the best six jumpers went into a final with three more rounds.

At the Olympic Games during this time, it was common practice in the technical disciplines to first conduct a qualifying round on the morning of the competition day if the number of participants was not too small. This preliminary round was held in two groups. The final with the qualified athletes usually took place in the afternoon of the same day.

final

Willy Schröder ( left ) together with seventh-placed Jules Noël, who was ninth in the shot put

September 5, 1938, 2 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Willy Schröder	German Empire	49.70 SB
2	Giorgio Oberweger	Italy	49.48 PB
3	Gunnar Bergh	Sweden	48.72 PB
4th	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland	48.63 PB
5	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	48.02 SB
6th	Jenő Kulitzy	Hungary	47.19 PB
7th	Jules Noël	France	46.65 PB
8th	Reidar Sørlie	Norway	46.36 PB
9	Åke Hedvall	Sweden	46.08 PB
10	Stylianos Floros	Greece	45.56 PB
11	Nikólaos Syllas	Greece	45.50 SB
12	Ernst Lampert	German Empire	44.38 PB
13	Paul Winter	France	42.68 SB
14th	Jaroslav Vítek	Czechoslovakia	41.18 PB
15th	Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein	39.80
16	Jean Wagner	Luxembourg	38.17 PB

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  The 1936 Olympic third party Giorgio Oberweger won silver

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  Bronze medalist Gunnar Berg - he finished fifth in the shot put

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  Kalevi Kotkas - European high jump champion from 1934 and vice European champion from 1938 - came fourth in the discus throw, missing bronze by just nine centimeters

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  With his fifth place, Adolfo Consolini was at the beginning of a long and great career

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  After his second place in 1934 , Paul Winter was now thirteenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 12, 2019
• Men Discus Throw European Championships 1938 Paris (FRA) on todor66.com, accessed March 12, 2019
• II European Championship, Paris 1938 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 12, 2019
• 2nd European Men's Athletics Championships 1938 in Paris, France from ifosta.de, accessed on March 12, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed March 12, 2019
2. ^ European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 , accessed March 12, 2019