European Athletics Championships 1946/1500 m men

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	14 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 25th (final)
Medalist
gold	Lennart Strand ( SWE )
silver	Henry Eriksson ( SWE )
bronze	Erik Jørgensen ( DEN )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The men's 1,500-meter run at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 25, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

There was a Swedish double victory: Lennart Strand became European champion . He won ahead of Henry Eriksson . Bronze went to the Dane Erik Jørgensen .

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 43.0 min	Gunder Hägg	Gothenburg , Sweden	July 7, 1944
European record
Championship record	3: 53.6 min	Sydney Wooderson	EM Paris , France	September 5, 1938

Record improvement

 Lennart Strand improved the EM record in the final by exactly 5.3 seconds to 3: 48.0 minutes.

Preliminary round

August 24, 1946, 6.40 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lennart Beach	Sweden	3: 56.6
2	Sándor Garay	Hungary	3: 56.8
3	Erik Jørgensen	Denmark	3: 57.0
4th	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3: 57.4
5	Alexander Pugachevsky	Soviet Union	3: 57.6 PB
6th	Óskar Jónsson	Iceland	3: 58.4 PB
7th	Willy Sponberg	Norway	3: 59.2 PB

Jan Staniszewski retired like over 800 meters with his seventh place in the second heat

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Henry Eriksson	Sweden	3: 54.6
2	Douglas Wilson	Great Britain	3: 55.0
3	Paul Messner	France	3: 58.0
4th	Luboš Vomáčka	Czechoslovakia	3: 58.8 PB
5	Asbjørn Hansen	Norway	3: 59.0 PB
6th	Walter Lutz	Switzerland	4: 02.4 PB
7th	Jan Staniszewski	Poland	4: 10.8 PB

final

August 25, 1946

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lennart Beach	Sweden	3: 48.0 CR
2	Henry Eriksson	Sweden	3: 48.8 SB
3	Erik Jørgensen	Denmark	3: 52.8 SB
4th	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3: 53.0 NO
5	Sándor Garay	Hungary	3: 53.0 PB
6th	Douglas Wilson	Great Britain	3: 53.2 PB
7th	Paul Messner	France	3: 56.6 PB
8th	Luboš Vomáčka	Czechoslovakia	4: 07.2

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  European champion Lennart Strand

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  Vice European Champion Henry Eriksson

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 17, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 17, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 17, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men , accessed March 17, 2019