European Athletics Championships 1946 / Men's Decathlon

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's decathlon
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	23/24 August
Medalist
gold	Godtfred Holmvang ( NOR )
silver	Sergei Kuznetsov ( URS )
bronze	Göran Waxberg ( SWE )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The men's decathlon at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on 23 and 24 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

European champion was the Norwegian Godtfred Holmvang . Second place went to Sergei Kuznetsov from the Soviet Union. The Swede Göran Waxberg won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	7900 P 1934 rating	7254 P 1985 rating	Glenn Morris	OS Berlin , Germany	August 7/8, 1936
European record	7824.5 P 1934 rating	7147 P 1985 rating	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	Hamburg , Germany	July 8, 1934
Championship record	7214 P 1920 rating	6687 P 1985 rating	Olle Bexell	EM Paris , France	September 4-5, 1938

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

execution

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days.
As at the last European Championships, the scoring was based on the points table from 1934.

Result

European champion Godfred Holmvang

Bronze medalist Göran Waxberg

23/24 August 1938

The table also shows the individual results from the 100-meter run , the long jump and the 1500-meter run, as well as the half-time points after the first day.

space	Surname	nation	Points official scoring	Points 1985 rating	100 m (s)	Long jump (noun)	1500 m (min)	Status after day 1 (pts)
1	Godtfred Holmvang	Norway	6987 PB	6566	11.7	6.69	4: 34.2 (4th)	3528 (2.)
2	Sergei Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	6930 PB	6559	11.1	7.37	4: 33.8 (3rd)	3558 (1.)
3	Göran Waxberg	Sweden	6661 PB	6313	11.8	6.76	4: 34.4 (5th)	3445 (3.)
4th	Armin Scheurer	Switzerland	6655 SB	6263	11.6	6.08	4: 53.0 (8th)	3498 (5.)
5	Pierre spokesman	France	6496 PB	6203	12.0	6.25	4: 19.8 (1st)	3229 (8.)
6th	Oskar Häfliger	Switzerland	6461 PB	6195	11.7	6.54	4: 27.3 (2nd)	3351 (6.)
7th	Gunnar Erdal-Aase	Norway	6295 PB	5995	11.8	6.44	?	3248 (7.)
8th	István Kiss	Hungary	6027 PB	5827	11.8	6.55	5: 83.8 (10th)	3214 (9.)
9	Before that, Marčelja	Yugoslavia	5994 PB	5762	12.2	6.32	4: 55.6 (9.)	3149 (11.)
10	Wacław Kuźmicki	Poland	5834 PB	5602	12.0	6.51	?	?
11	Armando Ossena	Italy	5790 PB	5634	11.9	6.70	5: 16.0 (11th)	3110 (12.)
12	Marjan Urbic	Yugoslavia	5238 PB	5605	11.8	6.45	4: 51.2 (7th)	3075 (13.)
DNF	Witold Gierutto	Poland			11.5	5.79	DNS	3428 (4.)
	René Kremer	Luxembourg			11.2	6.48	DNS	?
	Gebhard Büchel	Liechtenstein			12.3	5.45	DNS	2537 (14.)
	Erik Peter Andersson	Sweden

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved in 1985 according to the current rating system are also listed for comparison. The rankings would only have been shifted from ten to twelve. The eleventh-placed Armando Ossena and the twelfth-placed Marjan Urbic would have moved up one rank each, while the tenth-placed Wacław Kuźmicki would be twelfth.

Of course, these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 20, 2019
• Men Decathlon 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, decathlon 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. Decathlon , accessed March 20, 2019
2. ↑ Men Decathlon Men European Championship 1946 Oslo , accessed March 20, 2019
3. ↑ Portrait of Hans-Heinrich Sievert in the trackfield.brinkster.net database , accessed on March 20, 2019.