European Athletics Championships 1946 / men's long jump
3. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Long jump of men |
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Stadion | Bislett Stadium |
Attendees | 14 athletes from 12 countries |
Competition phase | August 23 (qualification / final) |
Medalist | |
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Olle Laessker ( SWE )
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Lucien Graff ( SUI )
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Miroslav Řihošek ( CSK )
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The men's long jump at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .
European champion was the Swede Olle Laessker . Second place went to Lucien Graff from Switzerland . The Czechoslovak Miroslav Řihošek won the bronze medal.
Existing records
World record | 8.13 m |
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Ann Arbor , USA | May 25, 1935 |
European record | 7.90 m |
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Berlin , Germany | August 1, 1937 |
Championship record | 7.65 m |
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EM Paris , France | September 3, 1938 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
qualification
August 23, 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.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Olle Laessker |
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7.18 |
2 | Lucien Graff |
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7.09 |
3 | Egidio Pribetti |
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7.08 |
4th | Oliver Steinn |
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7.06 PB |
5 | Denis Watts |
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7.00 PB |
6th | Miroslav Řihošek |
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6.98 |
7th | Stig Håkansson |
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6.94 |
8th | Zdeněk Matys |
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6.78 |
9 | Mees Naaktgeboren |
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6.77 PB |
10 | Jean Studer |
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6.74 SB |
11 | Bjorn Vilmundarson |
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6.69 PB |
12 | Armand Bour |
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6.58 PB |
13 | Léopold Delcour |
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6.56 PB |
14th | Preben Larsen |
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6.53 SB |
final
August 23, 1946, 5:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Olle Laessker |
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7.42 |
2 | Lucien Graff |
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7.40 PB |
3 | Miroslav Řihošek |
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7.29 NO |
4th | Egidio Pribetti |
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7.28 PB |
5 | Stig Håkansson |
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6.97 PB |
6th | Denis Watts |
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6.95 |
7th | Zdeněk Matys |
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6.92 PB |
8th | Oliver Steinn |
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6.82 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 19, 2019
- Men Long Jump European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 19, 2019
- III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 19, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 19, 2019
- 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 19, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men , accessed March 19, 2019
- ↑ Portrait of Lutz Long in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English), accessed on March 19, 2019.