European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's long jump
4. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Long jump of men |
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Stadion | Heysel Stadium |
Attendees | 17 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | August 25 (qualifying) August 26 (final) |
Medalist | |
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Torfi Bryngeirsson ( ISL )
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Gerard Wessels ( NED )
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Jaroslav Fikejz ( TCH )
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The men's long jump at the European Athletics Championships 1950 was held on August 25 and 26, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .
The Icelander Torfi Bryngeirsson won . Vice European champion was the Dutchman Gerard Wessels. Bronze went to the Czechoslovak Jaroslav Fikejz .
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 25, 1950, 10:30 a.m.
The seventeen participants competed in a common qualifying round. The best nine of them (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.
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René Valmy, a member of the French 4 x 100 meter relay that won silver in the 1946 European Championship , failed to qualify
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Álvaro Cachulo |
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7.32 |
2 | Paul Faucher |
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7.22 |
3 | Torfi Bryngeirsson |
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7.20 |
4th | Gerard Wessels |
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7.17 |
5 | Jaroslav Fikejz |
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7.10 |
6th | Fred Hammer |
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7.02 |
7th | Nilsen rune |
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7.00 |
8th | Harry Whittle |
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7.00 |
9 | Boris Brnad |
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6.96 |
10 | Walter Lombardi |
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6.95 |
11 | Pierre Knepper |
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6.92 |
12 | Felix Würth |
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6.86 |
13 | Luis García |
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6.78 |
14th | René Valmy |
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6.72 |
15th | Harry Askew |
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6.69 |
16 | René Libert |
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6.47 |
17th | Raymond Driesen |
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6.20 |
final
August 26, 1950
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Torfi Bryngeirsson |
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7.32 NO |
2 | Gerard Wessels |
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7.22 PB |
3 | Jaroslav Fikejz |
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7.20 PB |
4th | Álvaro Cachulo |
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7.00 |
5 | Nilsen rune |
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6.96 |
6th | Fred Hammer |
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6.92 |
7th | Paul Faucher |
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6.81 |
8th | Boris Brnad |
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6.52 |
DNS | Harry Whittle |
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Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 30, 2019
- Men Long Jump European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 30, 2019
- IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 30, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 30, 2019
- 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 30, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men , accessed March 30, 2019