European Athletics Championships 1950/100 m women

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Participants	15 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 25th (final)
Medalists
gold	Fanny Blankers-Koen ( NED )
silver	Yevgenia Setschenowa ( URS )
bronze	June Foulds ( GBR )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The women's 100-meter run at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 25, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

The European champion was Fanny Blankers-Koen from the Netherlands . She won ahead of the defending champion Yevgenia Setschenowa from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to the Briton June Foulds .

Records

Existing records

World record	11.5 s	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Amsterdam , Netherlands	June 13, 1948
European record
Championship record	11.9 s	Stanisława Walasiewicz	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 17, 1938
		Yevgenia Sechenova	EM in Oslo , Norway	August 22, 1946

Record improvement

European champion Fanny Blankers-Koen improved the EM record by two tenths of a second and hired it again:  

• Preroll, August 24: 11.7 s
• Final, August 25: 11.7 s

Preliminary round

August 24, 1950, 4:25 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

Grietje de Jongh's third place - here in a leading position in a race from 1953 - in her preliminary run was not quite enough to make it to the final

Dorothy Hall narrowly failed in third in her race and then won bronze over 200 m

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.7 CR
2	June Foulds	Great Britain	12.2
3	Yvette Monginou	France	12.6
4th	Gertrud Heusser	Switzerland	13.4
DSQ	Sofja Malschina	Soviet Union

Forward 2

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Soy Duchowitsch	Soviet Union	12.3
2	Elspeth Hay	Great Britain	12.5
3	Grietje de Jongh	Netherlands	12.5
4th	Josette Demeuter	Belgium	13.4

Forward 3

Wind: −1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Sechenova	Soviet Union	12.4
2	Colette Aitelli	France	12.5
3	Dorothy Hall	Great Britain	12.5
4th	Xenia Stad de Jongh	Netherlands	12.6
5	Vittoria Cesarini	Italy	12.8
6th	Anna Van Rossum	Belgium	13.7

final

The three-time European champion Fanny Blankers-Koen - 100 m , 200 m , 80 m hurdles

August 25, 1950, 7.45 p.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	11.7 CRe
2	Yevgenia Sechenova	Soviet Union	12.3
3	June Foulds	Great Britain	12.4
4th	Soy Duchowitsch	Soviet Union	12.4
5	Elspeth Hay	Great Britain	12.5
6th	Colette Aitelli	France	12.5

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  The defending champion Yevgenia Setschenowa reached second place this time

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  Bronze medalist June Foulds - in 1952 with her future husband, British fencer Raymond Paul

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on April 1, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed April 1, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 1, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on April 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed April 1, 2019