European Athletics Championships 1946/110 m hurdles of men

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	12 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 25th (final)
Medalist
gold	Håkan Lidman ( SWE )
silver	Pol Braekman ( BEL )
bronze	Väinö Suvivuo ( FIN )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 25, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

It won the European record holder and vice European champion from 1938 Håkan Lidman from Sweden. Second place went to the Belgian Pol Braekman . Bronze went to the Finn Väinö Suvivuo .

Existing records

World record	13.7 s	Forrest Towns	Philadelphia , USA	August 27, 1936
		Fred Wolcott	Oslo , Norway	June 29, 1941
European record	14.0 s	Håkan Lidman	Milan , Italy	September 22, 1940
Championship record	14.3 s	Don Finlay	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 24, 1946, 5:10 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

André-Jacques Marie retired as fourth in his preliminary run

As fifth of his prelim, Milan Tošnar did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pol Braekman	Belgium	14.8
2	Gosta Risberg	Sweden	14.9
3	Edvin Larsen	Denmark	14.9
4th	André-Jacques Marie	France	15.0
5	Veikko Jussila	Finland	15.1
6th	József Kiss	Hungary	15.5

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.7
2	Väinö Suvivuo	Finland	15.1
3	Henri Maignan	France	15.2
4th	Pierre Van de Sijpe	Belgium	15.4
5	Milan Tošnar	Czechoslovakia	15.4
6th	Werner Christians	Switzerland	15.6

final

August 25, 1946

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Håkan Lidman	Sweden	14.6
2	Pol Braekman	Belgium	14.9
3	Väinö Suvivuo	Finland	15.0
4th	Gosta Risberg	Sweden	15.2
5	Edvin Larsen	Denmark	15.3
6th	Henri Maignan	France	15.5

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  European champion Håkan Lidman

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 18, 2019
• Men 110m hurdles European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed on March 18, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 18, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 110m hurdles men , accessed on March 18, 2019
2. ↑ Portrait of Håkan Lidman in the trackfield.brinkster.net database , accessed on March 18, 2019.