European Athletics Championships 1946/100 m men

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	29 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 23 (preliminary / semi-finals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Jack Archer ( GBR )
silver	Haakon Tranberg ( NOR )
bronze	Carlo Monti ( ITA )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The men's 100-meter run at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

British Jack Archer became European Champion . He won ahead of the Norwegian Haakon Tranberg . Bronze went to the Italian Carlo Monti .

Existing records

World record	10.2 s	Jesse Owens	Chicago , USA	June 20, 1936
		Harold Davis	Compton , USA	June 6, 1941
European record	10.3 s	Arthur Jonath	Bochum , Germany	June 5, 1932
		Christiaan Berger	Amsterdam , Netherlands	August 26, 1934
		Lennart Strandberg	Malmo , Sweden	September 26, 1936
		Karl Neckermann	Berlin , Germany	July 8, 1939
Championship record	10.4 s	Orazio Mariani	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938
		Wil van Beveren

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

execution

The entire competition took place in one day. The prelims (5:15 p.m.), semi-finals (6:25 p.m.) and the final (7:20 p.m.) took place on August 23, 1946.

Preliminary round

August 23, 1946, 5:15 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	10.8 NO
2	Carlo Monti	Italy	10.9
3	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	10.9
4th	Jozef Rutkowski	Poland	11.0
5	Fernand Bourgaux	France	11.2

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stig Håkansson	Sweden	10.8
2	Giusto Cattoni	Italy	11.0
3	Jiří David	Czechoslovakia	11.1
4th	Kalevi Huttunen	Finland	11.2
DSQ	Marko Racic	Yugoslavia

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pol Braekman	Belgium	10.7
2	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	10.8
3	Jo Zwaan	Netherlands	10.9
4th	Bert Liffen	Great Britain	10.9
5	Marijan Slanac	Yugoslavia	11.0

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jack Archer	Great Britain	10.6
2	Étienne Bally	France	10.8
3	Mirko Paráček	Czechoslovakia	10.9
4th	Arne Thisted	Denmark	11.0
5	Kjell Mangseth	Norway	11.2

Forward 5

Jan Lammers did not reach the final as fourth in his semi-final race

Jo Zwaan was fifth in the second semifinals and was eliminated

Third place in the third semi-final was not enough for René Valmy to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Haakon Tranberg	Norway	10.8
2	Nikolai Karakulov	Soviet Union	10.8
3	René Valmy	France	10.9
4th	Days Egemose	Denmark	11.0

Semifinals

August 23, 1946, 6:25 p.m.

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jack Archer	Great Britain	10.6
2	Stig Håkansson	Sweden	10.7
3	Nikolai Karakulov	Soviet Union	10.7
4th	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	10.8
5	Giusto Cattoni	Italy	11.0

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Étienne Bally	France	10.6
2	Carlo Monti	Italy	10.7
3	Pol Braekman	Belgium	10.8
4th	Jiří David	Czechoslovakia	10.9
5	Jo Zwaan	Netherlands	10.9

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Haakon Tranberg	Norway	10.7
2	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	10.8 NRe
3	René Valmy	France	10.8
4th	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	10.9
5	Mirko Paráček	Czechoslovakia	11.0

final

August 23, 1946, 7:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jack Archer	Great Britain	10.6
2	Haakon Tranberg	Norway	10.7
3	Carlo Monti	Italy	10.8
4th	Étienne Bally	France	10.8
5	Stig Håkansson	Sweden	10.9
6th	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	10.9

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  Bronze medalist Carlo Monti

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  Cartoon about the fourth-placed Étienne Bally

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  Stig Håkansson finished fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 16, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 16, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 16, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed March 16, 2019
2. ↑ Men 100m European Championship 1946 Oslo , accessed March 16, 2019