European Athletics Championships 1946 / Women's high jump

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	80-meter hurdles for women
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Participants	10 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd
Medalists
gold	Anne-Marie Colchen ( FRA )
silver	Alexandra Tschudina ( URS )
bronze	Anne Iversen ( DEN )

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 .

European champion was Anne-Marie Colchen from France . Alexandra Tschudina from the USSR took second place. The Danish Anne Iversen won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	1.71 m	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Amsterdam , Netherlands	30 Mali 1943
European record
EM record	1.64 m	Ibolya Csák	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938
		Nelly van Balen-Blanken
		Feodora to Solms

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

execution

The ten participants entered the final without a qualification round.

final

European champion Anne-Marie Colchen, also a member of the French Basketball -National-
team

August 22, 1946

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Anne-Marie Colchen	France	1.60 PB
2	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	1.57 SB
3	Anne Iversen	Denmark	1.57 NO
4th	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	1.57 NO
5	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	1.57 SB
6th	Triny Bourkel	Luxembourg	1.57 PB
7th	Dora Gardner	Great Britain	1.54 SB
8th	Milly Ludwig	Luxembourg	1.48 PB
9	Joyce Judd	Great Britain	1.45 PB
10	Edith Øieren	Norway	1.40 PB

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  Vice European Champion Alexandra Tschudina - here as a long jumper in 1952

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  High jump - world record holder Fanny Blankers-Koen came in fourth

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  The versatile Micheline Ostermeyer - 1948 Olympic champion in the shot put / discus throw and also very well known as a pianist - took fifth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 25, 2019
• Women High Jump European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 25, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 25, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed March 25, 2019