European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's long jump
4. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Long jump of men |
city | Brussels |
Stadion | Heysel Stadium |
Attendees | 17 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | August 25 (qualifying) August 26 (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Torfi Bryngeirsson ( ISL ) |
silver | Gerard Wessels ( NED ) |
bronze | Jaroslav Fikejz ( TCH ) |
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 | 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 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.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Álvaro Cachulo | Portugal | 7.32 |
2 | Paul Faucher | France | 7.22 |
3 | Torfi Bryngeirsson | Iceland | 7.20 |
4th | Gerard Wessels | Netherlands | 7.17 |
5 | Jaroslav Fikejz | Czechoslovakia | 7.10 |
6th | Fred Hammer | Luxembourg | 7.02 |
7th | Nilsen rune | Norway | 7.00 |
8th | Harry Whittle | Great Britain | 7.00 |
9 | Boris Brnad | Yugoslavia | 6.96 |
10 | Walter Lombardi | Italy | 6.95 |
11 | Pierre Knepper | Luxembourg | 6.92 |
12 | Felix Würth | Austria | 6.86 |
13 | Luis García | Portugal | 6.78 |
14th | René Valmy | France | 6.72 |
15th | Harry Askew | Great Britain | 6.69 |
16 | René Libert | Belgium | 6.47 |
17th | Raymond Driesen | Belgium | 6.20 |
final
August 26, 1950
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Torfi Bryngeirsson | Iceland | 7.32 NO |
2 | Gerard Wessels | Netherlands | 7.22 PB |
3 | Jaroslav Fikejz | Czechoslovakia | 7.20 PB |
4th | Álvaro Cachulo | Portugal | 7.00 |
5 | Nilsen rune | Norway | 6.96 |
6th | Fred Hammer | Luxembourg | 6.92 |
7th | Paul Faucher | France | 6.81 |
8th | Boris Brnad | Yugoslavia | 6.52 |
DNS | Harry Whittle | Great Britain |
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