European Athletics Championships 1946 / men's javelin
3. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's javelin throw |
city | Oslo |
Stadion | Bislett Stadium |
Attendees | 13 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | August 25 (qualification / final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Lennart Atterwall ( SWE ) |
silver | Yrjö Nikkanen ( FIN ) |
bronze | Tapio Rautavaara ( FIN ) |
The men's javelin at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .
In this discipline there were two medals for Finland with silver and bronze. European champion was the Swede Lennart Atterwall . Second place went to Yrjö Nikkanen ahead of Tapio Rautavaara .
Existing records
World record | 78.70 m | Yrjö Nikkanen | Kotka , Finland | October 16, 1938 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 76.87 m | Matti Järvinen | EM Paris , France | September 3, 1938 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
qualification
August 25, 1946, 10:00 a.m.
The first eight athletes qualified for the final - highlighted in light blue. As today, the achieved distances were not included in the final ranking.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Lennart Atterwall | Sweden | 67.21 |
2 | Yrjö Nikkanen | Finland | 66.30 |
3 | Tapio Rautavaara | Finland | 63.03 |
4th | Sven Daleflod | Sweden | 62.93 |
5 | Odd Mæhlum | Norway | 62.91 |
6th | Josef Neumann | Switzerland | 60.36 |
7th | Nico Lutkeveld | Netherlands | 60.07 SB |
8th | Lumír Kiesewetter | Czechoslovakia | 59.80 |
9 | Michael Solomonsen | Norway | 58.74 |
10 | Jóel Sigurðsson | Iceland | 58.06 SB |
11 | Raymond Tissot | France | 57.63 PB |
12 | Pierre spokesman | France | 55.22 |
13 | Oskar Ospelt | Liechtenstein | 45.11 SB |
final
August 25, 1946, 1:50 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Lennart Atterwall | Sweden | 68.74 PB |
2 | Yrjö Nikkanen | Finland | 67.50 SB |
3 | Tapio Rautavaara | Finland | 66.40 SB |
4th | Odd Mæhlum | Norway | 66.37 PB |
5 | Sven Daleflod | Sweden | 64.79 PB |
6th | Josef Neumann | Switzerland | 62.48 PB |
7th | Lumír Kiesewetter | Czechoslovakia | 59.91 PB |
8th | Nico Lutkeveld | Netherlands | 59.50 |
World record holder Yrjö Nikkanen no longer had the great shape of the past years and became vice European champion
Bronze medalist Tapio Rautavaara became Olympic champion two years later
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 20, 2019
- Men Javelin Throw European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 20, 2019
- III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 20, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 20, 2019
- 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 20, 2019
References and comments
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↑ a b c The information on the date of the qualification differs in the sources:
- European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 , EAA homepage , accessed on March 20, 2019 - August 24 as the date specified
- Named Men Javelin Throw European Championships 1946 , todor66.com, accessed March 20, 2019 - August 25
- ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin men , accessed March 20, 2019