European Athletics Championships 1946 / men's hammer throw

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	11 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Bo Ericson ( SWE )
silver	Eric Johansson ( SWE )
bronze	Duncan Clark ( GBR )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The men's hammer throw at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

There was a Swedish double victory in this discipline. Bo Ericson became European champion . Second place went to Eric Johansson . The Briton Duncan Clark won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	59.00 m	Erwin Blask	Stockholm , Sweden	August 27, 1938
European record
Championship record	58.77 m	Karl Hein	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

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

qualification

August 22, 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.

Ivan Gubijan was eliminated with his eleventh place in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Bo Ericson	Sweden	53.60
2	Eric Johansson	Sweden	52.29
3	Hans Houtzager	Netherlands	51.46 PB
4th	Duncan Clark	Great Britain	50.81
5	Teseo Taddia	Italy	50.17 SB
6th	Alexander Schechtel	Soviet Union	40.90 PB
7th	Imre Németh	Hungary	48.47
8th	Jaroslav Knotek	Czechoslovakia	48.37 PB
9	Reino Kuivamäki	Finland	48.37 PB
10	Gunnar Christensen	Denmark	45.94 SB
11	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	45.11 SB

final

August 22, 1946, 6 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Bo Ericson	Sweden	56.44 PB
2	Eric Johansson	Sweden	53.54
3	Duncan Clark	Great Britain	51.32 SB
4th	Imre Németh	Hungary	50.03 SB
5	Hans Houtzager	Netherlands	49.68
6th	Teseo Taddia	Italy	48.63
7th	Alexander Schechtel	Soviet Union	46.24
8th	Jaroslav Knotek	Czechoslovakia	46.04

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 20, 2019
• Men Hammer 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, men's hammer throw 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. Hammer Throw Men , accessed March 20, 2019