European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's hammer throw
4. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's hammer throw |
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Stadion | Heysel Stadium |
Attendees | 13 athletes from 11 countries |
Competition phase | August 25 (qualifying) August 27 (final) |
Medalist | |
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Sverre Strandli ( NOR )
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Teseo Taddia ( ITA )
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Jiří Dadák ( TCH )
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The men's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships 1950 was held on August 25 and 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .
European champion was the Norwegian Sverre Strandli . He won ahead of the Italian Teseo Taddia . Bronze went to the Czechoslovakian Jiří Dadák.
Existing records
World record | 59.88 m |
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Budapest , Hungary | May 19, 1950 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 58.77 m |
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EM Paris , France | September 4, 1938 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
qualification
August 25, 1950
The thirteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The first nine throwers (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Teseo Taddia |
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55.05 SB |
2 | Sverre Strandli |
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54.17 |
3 | Alexandr Kanaki |
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53.73 PB |
4th | Ivan Gubijan |
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52.29 |
5 | Jiří Dadák |
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52.27 |
6th | Duncan Clark |
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52.25 |
7th | Svend-Aage Frederiksen |
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50.87 SB |
8th | Rudolf Galin |
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48.54 |
9 | Ewan Douglas |
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47.31 |
10 | Henri Haest |
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47.22 PB |
11 | Toma Balcı |
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46.63 PB |
12 | André Osterberger |
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46.45 PB |
13 | Pierre Legrain |
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46.21 SB |
final
August 27, 1950
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Sverre Strandli |
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55.71 SB |
2 | Teseo Taddia |
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54.73 |
3 | Jiří Dadák |
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53.64 SB |
4th | Ivan Gubijan |
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53.34 SB |
5 | Alexandr Kanaki |
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53.09 |
6th | Duncan Clark |
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52.83 PB |
7th | Svend-Aage Frederiksen |
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50.01 |
8th | Ewan Douglas |
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49.18 PB |
9 | Rudolf Galin |
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49.01 PB |
The series of third-placed Jiří Dadák is well known:
52.99 m / 52.86 m / 51.71 m / 51.18 m / x / 53.64 m
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 31, 2019
- Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 31, 2019
- IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 31, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, men's hammer throw on sportschau.de, accessed on March 31, 2019
- 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 31, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed March 31, 2019