European Athletics Championships 1946 / men's javelin

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	13 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 25 (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Lennart Atterwall ( SWE )
silver	Yrjö Nikkanen ( FIN )
bronze	Tapio Rautavaara ( FIN )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The men's javelin at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

In this discipline there were two medals for Finland with silver and bronze. European champion was the Swede Lennart Atterwall . Second place went to Yrjö Nikkanen ahead of Tapio Rautavaara .

Existing records

World record	78.70 m	Yrjö Nikkanen	Kotka , Finland	October 16, 1938
European record
Championship record	76.87 m	Matti Järvinen	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938

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

qualification

August 25, 1946, 10:00 a.m.

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

Lennart Atterwall became European champion, but remained more than eight meters below Matti Järvinen's victory distance of  1938

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Lennart Atterwall	Sweden	67.21
2	Yrjö Nikkanen	Finland	66.30
3	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	63.03
4th	Sven Daleflod	Sweden	62.93
5	Odd Mæhlum	Norway	62.91
6th	Josef Neumann	Switzerland	60.36
7th	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	60.07 SB
8th	Lumír Kiesewetter	Czechoslovakia	59.80
9	Michael Solomonsen	Norway	58.74
10	Jóel Sigurðsson	Iceland	58.06 SB
11	Raymond Tissot	France	57.63 PB
12	Pierre spokesman	France	55.22
13	Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein	45.11 SB

final

August 25, 1946, 1:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Lennart Atterwall	Sweden	68.74 PB
2	Yrjö Nikkanen	Finland	67.50 SB
3	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	66.40 SB
4th	Odd Mæhlum	Norway	66.37 PB
5	Sven Daleflod	Sweden	64.79 PB
6th	Josef Neumann	Switzerland	62.48 PB
7th	Lumír Kiesewetter	Czechoslovakia	59.91 PB
8th	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	59.50

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  World record holder Yrjö Nikkanen no longer had the great shape of the past years and became vice European champion

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  Bronze medalist Tapio Rautavaara became Olympic champion two years later

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  Sven Daleflod came in fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 20, 2019
• Men Javelin 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, javelin 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. ↑ ^{a b c} The information on the date of the qualification differs in the sources:
   • European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 , EAA homepage , accessed on March 20, 2019 - August 24 as the date specified
   • Named Men Javelin Throw European Championships 1946 , todor66.com, accessed March 20, 2019 - August 25
   In all other technical disciplines of these European championships, the qualification and final took place on the same day. It is therefore assumed here that this is also the more likely of the two variants. In addition, at todor.com there are additional times for qualification and finals, which confirm this assumption.
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin men , accessed March 20, 2019