European Athletics Championships 1946/80 m hurdles for women

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	80-meter hurdles for women
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Participants	10 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	23 August (preliminary / final)
Medalists
gold	Fanny Blankers-Koen ( NED )
silver	Elene Gokieli ( URS )
bronze	Valentina Fokina ( URS )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

In this competition with only ten participants, two Soviet runners won silver and bronze. European champion was Fanny Blankers-Koen from the Netherlands , who won her first major international title. Elene Gokieli took second place ahead of Valentina Fokina .

Existing records

World record	11.3 s	Claudia Testoni	Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany	July 23, 1939
		Fanny Blankers-Koen	Amsterdam , Netherlands	September 20, 1942
European record	11.3 s	Claudia Testoni	Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany	July 23, 1939
		Fanny Blankers-Koen	Amsterdam , Netherlands	September 20, 1942
Championship record	11.6 s	Claudia Testoni	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 17, 1938

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

Preliminary round

August 23, 1946, 5:30 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.
Why the preliminary division was not made with ten participants with five runners per race, is incomprehensible. Instead, six athletes ran in the first heat and four in the second. A possible explanation is perhaps in short-term cancellations, which are not named.

Forward 1

Gerda Koudijs was disqualified in the second run and did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.7
2	Elene Gokieli	Soviet Union	11.9
3	Marie Matesová	Czechoslovakia	12.6
4th	Milly Ludwig	Luxembourg	13.2
5	Aniela Mitan	Poland	13.3
6th	Ingrid Jacobsson	Sweden	14.2

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Valentina Fokina	Soviet Union	11.8
2	Anna Linnéa Sövgren	Sweden	12.8
3	Anne Iversen	Denmark	13.1
DSQ	Gerda Koudijs	Netherlands

final

Fanny Blankers-Koen won her first international title

August 23, 1946, 7 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.8
2	Elene Gokieli	Soviet Union	11.9
3	Valentina Fokina	Soviet Union	11.9
4th	Anne Iversen	Denmark	12.3
5	Anna Linnéa Sövgren	Sweden	12.4
6th	Marie Matesová	Czechoslovakia	12.4

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 24, 2019
• Women 80m Hurdles European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 24, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 24, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, 80 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 24, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 24, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} World Records Progression 80 m Hurdles Women , accessed March 24, 2019