European Athletics Championships 1946/200 m women

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Participants	14 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 25th (final)
Medalists
gold	Yevgenia Setschenowa ( URS )
silver	Winifred Jordan ( GBR )
bronze	Léa Caurla ( FRA )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The women's 200-meter run at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 25, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

In the first two places there was the same order as in the 100-meter run . Yevgenia Setschenowa from the Soviet Union was European champion ahead of the Briton Winifred Jordan . Bronze went to the Frenchwoman Léa Caurla .

Existing records

World record	23.6 s	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Warsaw , Poland	4th August 1935
European record
Championship record	23.8 s		EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938

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

Preliminary round

August 24, 1946

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

The division and the mode of implementation of the preliminary runs are hardly comprehensible. In order to eliminate two of the fourteen runners who competed, four races were scheduled. For the first run, five athletes were assigned. Here two sprinters were eliminated, making the three upcoming races meaningless. The three participants each only had to reach the goal to be in the semi-finals. It was correspondingly slow there. The two athletes eliminated in the first run had the seventh and ninth fastest times. One explanation could be that there were short-term cancellations before the start. However, these are not noted in the sources.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Léa Caurla	France	25.2
2	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	25.4
3	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain	25.7
4th	Vera Bemová	Czechoslovakia	26.2
5	Hilde Nissen	Denmark	26.6 NO

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sylvia Cheeseman	Great Britain	26.0
2	Dana Hiklová	Czechoslovakia	27.1
3	Solveig Toms	Norway	27.2

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marit Hemstad	Norway	25.9
2	Ann-Britt Leyman	Sweden	27.3
3	Jadwiga Słomczewska	Poland	27.6

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Sechenova	Soviet Union	25.2
2	Joyce Judd	Great Britain	26.3
3	Mieczysława Moder	Poland	26.9

Semifinals

August 24, 1946, 7.40 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Stanisława Walasiewicz, double European champion from 1938 , was eliminated in the semi-finals over 200 meters

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Léa Caurla	France	25.5
2	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain	25.5
3	Sylvia Cheeseman	Great Britain	25.8
4th	Dana Hiklová	Czechoslovakia	26.3
5	Solveig Toms	Norway	27.0
DNS	Jadwiga Słomczewska	Poland

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Sechenova	Soviet Union	25.1
2	Marit Hemstad	Norway	25.7
3	Ann-Britt Leyman	Sweden	25.8
4th	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	26.0
5	Joyce Judd	Great Britain	26.1
6th	Mieczysława Moder	Poland	26.2

final

Yevgenia Setschenowa won her second
European Championship title

August 25, 1946

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Sechenova	Soviet Union	25.4
2	Winifred Jordan	Great Britain	25.6
3	Léa Caurla	France	25.6
4th	Marit Hemstad	Norway	25.7
5	Sylvia Cheeseman	Great Britain	25.8
6th	Ann-Britt Leyman	Sweden	26.2

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  The fifth placed Sylvia Cheeseman

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  Ann-Britt Leyman - in the photo as a long jumper - took sixth place in the final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 23, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 23, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 23, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 23, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed March 23, 2019