European Athletics Championships 1946 / men's long jump

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	14 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 23 (qualification / final)
Medalist
gold	Olle Laessker ( SWE )
silver	Lucien Graff ( SUI )
bronze	Miroslav Řihošek ( CSK )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

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	Jesse Owens	Ann Arbor , USA	May 25, 1935
European record	7.90 m	Luz Long	Berlin , Germany	August 1, 1937
Championship record	7.65 m	Wilhelm Leichum	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)
1	Olle Laessker	Sweden	7.18
2	Lucien Graff	Switzerland	7.09
3	Egidio Pribetti	Italy	7.08
4th	Oliver Steinn	Iceland	7.06 PB
5	Denis Watts	Great Britain	7.00 PB
6th	Miroslav Řihošek	Czechoslovakia	6.98
7th	Stig Håkansson	Sweden	6.94
8th	Zdeněk Matys	Czechoslovakia	6.78
9	Mees Naaktgeboren	Netherlands	6.77 PB
10	Jean Studer	Switzerland	6.74 SB
11	Bjorn Vilmundarson	Iceland	6.69 PB
12	Armand Bour	France	6.58 PB
13	Léopold Delcour	Belgium	6.56 PB
14th	Preben Larsen	Denmark	6.53 SB

European champion Olle Laessker

Stig Håkansson finished fifth

final

August 23, 1946, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Olle Laessker	Sweden	7.42
2	Lucien Graff	Switzerland	7.40 PB
3	Miroslav Řihošek	Czechoslovakia	7.29 NO
4th	Egidio Pribetti	Italy	7.28 PB
5	Stig Håkansson	Sweden	6.97 PB
6th	Denis Watts	Great Britain	6.95
7th	Zdeněk Matys	Czechoslovakia	6.92 PB
8th	Oliver Steinn	Iceland	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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men , accessed March 19, 2019
2. ↑ Portrait of Lutz Long in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English), accessed on March 19, 2019.