European Athletics Championships 1946 / Men's discus throw

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Adolfo Consolini ( ITA )
silver	Giuseppe Tosi ( ITA )
bronze	Veikko Nyqvist ( FIN )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The men's discus throw at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

In this discipline there was an Italian double victory. European champion was Adolfo Consolini . Second place went to Giuseppe Tosi . Veikko Nyqvist from Finland won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	54.93 m	Robert Fitch	Minneapolis , USA	June 8, 1946
European record	54.23 m	Adolfo Consolini	Milan , Italy	April 14, 1946
Championship record	50.38 m	Harald Andersson	EM Turin , Italy	September 8, 1934

Record improvement

European champion Adolfo Consolini improved Harald Andersson's EM record in qualifying by 2.91 meters to 53.29 meters.  

qualification

August 24, 1946

The first eight athletes qualified for the final - highlighted in light blue. As today, the achieved distances were not included in the final ranking.

Danilo Žerjal did not reach the final with his tenth place from the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	53.29 CR
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	50.03
3	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.67
4th	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	46.98
5	Bengt Wikner	Sweden	46.96 PB
6th	Erik Westlin	Sweden	46.47 PB
7th	Stone Johnson	Norway	45.61
8th	Raymond Tissot	France	44.90 PB
9	René Bazennerie	France	44.72 PB
10	Danilo Žerjal	Yugoslavia	44.31 SB
11	Jaroslav Knotek	Czechoslovakia	44.23 PB
12	Johan Nordby	Norway	43.33 PB
13	Jón Ólafsson	Iceland	42.40 PB
14th	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	41.74 SB
15th	Roger Verhaes	Belgium	40.88 PB
16	Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein	38.35 SB

Adolfo Consolini won his first of three European Championship titles

final

August 24, 1946, 6:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	53.23
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	50.39 SB
3	Veikko Nyqvist	Finland	48.14 PB
4th	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	47.96 PB
5	Stone Johnson	Norway	46.77 SB
6th	Erik Westlin	Sweden	45.65
7th	Bengt Wikner	Sweden	44.57
8th	Raymond Tissot	France	44.11

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  Vice European Champion Giuseppe Tosi was the only thrower next to Adolfo Consolini to exceed the 50 meter mark

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  Erik Westlin finished sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 20, 2019
• Men Discus 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, discus throw 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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed March 20, 2019
2. ↑ Adolfo Consolini on sports-reference.com, accessed on March 20, 2019