European Athletics Championships 1946/5000 m men
3. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 5000 meter run |
city | Oslo |
Stadion | Bislett Stadium |
Attendees | 18 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | August 23 |
Medalist | |
gold | Sydney Wooderson ( GBR ) |
silver | Willem Slijkhuis ( NED ) |
bronze | Evert Nyberg ( SWE ) |
The men's 5000-meter run at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .
The British Sydney Wooderson , who won the 1,500 meter run at the European Championships in 1938, was European champion . He won ahead of Willem Slijkhuis from the Netherlands . Bronze went to Evert Nyberg from Sweden .
Records
Existing records
World record | 13: 58.2 min | Gunder Hägg | Gothenburg , Sweden | September 20, 1942 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 14: 26.8 min | Taisto Mäki | EM Paris , France | September 4, 1938 |
Record improvement
Sydney Wooderson improved the European Championship record by 18 seconds to 14: 08.6 minutes.
final
August 23, 1946, 3:10 p.m.
There were no preliminary heats in this competition. The number of participants of eighteen runners made it possible for all athletes to compete in the final together.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Sydney Wooderson | Great Britain | 14: 08.6 CR / NO |
2 | Willem Slijkhuis | Netherlands | 14: 14.0 NO |
3 | Evert Nyberg | Sweden | 14: 23.2 PB |
4th | Viljo Heino | Finland | 14: 24.4 PB |
5 | Emil Zatopek | Czechoslovakia | 14: 25.8 NO |
6th | Gaston Reiff | Belgium | 14: 45.8 SB |
7th | Rikard Greenfort | Denmark | 14: 46.0 PB |
8th | Raphaël Pujazon | France | 14: 46.8 PB |
9 | René Breistroffer | France | 14: 50.4 PB |
10 | Aage Poulsen | Denmark | 14: 53.6 PB |
11 | Charles Heirendt | Luxembourg | 15: 00.6 NO |
12 | Marcel Vandewattyne | Belgium | 15: 08.0 PB |
13 | András Pataki | Hungary | 15: 33.6 PB |
14th | Leon Aasbø | Norway | 15: 33.8 PB |
DNF | Napoleon Dzwonkowski | Poland | |
Helge Perälä | Finland | ||
Åke Durkfeldt | Sweden | ||
Arnt Johan Røhme | Norway |
Raphaël Pujazon - winner of the 3000 meter obstacle two days later - came in eighth
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 17, 2019
- Men 5000m 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, 5000 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed March 17, 2019