European Athletics Championships 1950 / 10,000 m men

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 10,000-meter run
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	14 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 23
Medalist
gold	Emil Zátopek ( TCH )
silver	Alain Mimoun ( FRA )
bronze	Väinö Koskela ( FIN )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

The European champion was the Czechoslovak Emil Zátopek . He won ahead of the Frenchman Alain Mimoun . Bronze went to the Finn Väinö Koskela .

Records

Existing records

World record	29: 02.6 min	Emil Zatopek	Turku , Finland	4th August 1950
European record
Championship record	29: 52.0 min	Viljo Heino	EM in Oslo , Norway	August 22, 1946

Record improvement

European champion Emil Zátopek improved the championship record by forty seconds to 29: 12.0 minutes.  

execution

With fourteen runners participating, all athletes entered the finals together without prior preliminary runs.

final

Emil Zátopek won his first European title

23 August 1950, 7:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Emil Zatopek	Czechoslovakia	29: 12.0 CR
2	Alain Mimoun	France	30: 21.0 SB
3	Väinö Koskela	Finland	30: 30.8 PB
4th	Frank Aaron	Great Britain	30: 31.6 NO
5	Nikifor Popov	Soviet Union	30: 34.4 PB
6th	Martin Stokken	Norway	30: 44.8 PB
7th	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium	30: 48.6 SB
8th	Osman Coşgül	Turkey	30: 50.0 PB
9	John Doms	Belgium	31: 04.2 PB
10	Đorđe Stefanović	Yugoslavia	31: 20.0 PB
11	Franjo Mihalic	Yugoslavia	31: 29.2 PB
12	Ernest Petitjean	France	32: 04.4 PB
DNF	Bertil Albertsson	Sweden
	José Coll	Spain

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  The run of runner-up European champion Alain Mimoun as an all-time runner-up - started over 10,000 meters at the Olympic Games in 1948 - continued

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  Martin Stokken - successful long distance runner and cross-country skier - finished sixth and four days later came fourth over 3000 m obstacle

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  Franjo Mihalić came in eleventh place

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  Bertil Albertsson - three days later, tenth over 5000 meters - did not finish

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 27, 2019
• Men 10000m European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed on March 27, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 10,000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 27, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000m men , accessed March 27, 2019