1946 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Oslo
place	Round trip through Oslo
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 22, 1946
Medalist
gold	Mikko Hietanen ( FIN )
silver	Väinö Muinonen ( FIN )
bronze	Jakow Punko ( URS )

The men's marathon at the 1946 European Athletics Championships took place in Oslo , Norway on August 22, 1946 .

The Finn Mikko Hietanen won the race in 2:24:55 h. The Finn Väinö Muinonen was runner-up in Europe ahead of the Soviet runner Jakow Punko . Since the running distance of 40.2 kilometers was too short by 1995 meters, the time was not counted as a new championship record.

Records / best performances

World record	Son Kee-chung	2:26:42 h	Tokyo , Japan	November 3, 1935
European best time	Kyriakidhis Stylianos	2:29:27 h	Boston , USA	April 20, 1946
Championship record	Väinö Muinonen	2: 37: 28.8 h	EM in Paris , France	September 4, 1938

Jubelpark or Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels

Signature of the Finnish marathon winner Mikko Hietanen

Remarks:

• At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.
• Son Kee-chung, owner of the world best performance, was compulsorily started under the name Kitei Son for Japan during his time as an active player . His country Korea had been under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945.
• The running distance here in Oslo was only 40.2 km instead of the 42.195 km prescribed for the marathon. Thus, the times achieved were not on the best list, Mikko Hietanen's time could not be recognized as an EM record.

Result

The Finnish Vice European Champion Väinö Muinonen

The Swede Gösta Leandersson took fifth place

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Mikko Hietanen	Finland	2:24:55
	Väinö Muinonen	Finland	2:26:08
	Jakow Punko	Soviet Union	2:26:21
04th	Pierre cousin	France	2:27:05
05	Gosta Leandersson	Sweden	2:28:30
06th	Erik Jonsson	Sweden	2:30:08
07th	Squire Yarrow	Great Britain	2:30:40
08th	Henning Larsen	Denmark	2:32:50
09	Athanasios Ragazos	Greece	2:32:58
10	Kaspar Schiesser	Switzerland	2:36:42
11	Václav Weisshäutel	Czechoslovakia	2:37:07
12	John Systad	Norway	2:42:59
13	Robert Nevens	Belgium	2:50:23
14th	Antonín Špiroch	Czechoslovakia	2:57:44
	Horace Oliver	Great Britain	DNF
	Øivind Gundhu	Norway
	Stylianos Kiriakidis	Greece
	Janos Biro	Hungary	DNS
	Stanislaw Glusacz	Poland
	A. Beck	France

Web links and sources

• Men Marathon European Championships 1946 Oslo from todor66.com, accessed March 3, 2019
• European Marathon Championships on marathonspiegel.de, accessed on March 3, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 at european-athletics.org, accessed March 3, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed March 3, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Marathon Men , p. 14 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 12, 2019
3. ^ The Korean Tragedy , Zeit Online, October 19, 2010, accessed March 3, 2019