European Athletics Championships 1950/110 m hurdles of men

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	15 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 23rd (preliminary) August 24th (final)
Medalist
gold	André-Jacques Marie ( FRA )
silver	Ragnar Lundberg ( SWE )
bronze	Peter Hildreth ( GBR )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1950 was held on 23 and 24 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

The Frenchman André-Jacques Marie won . Vice European champion was the Swede Ragnar Lundberg . The Briton Peter Hildreth won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	13.5 s	Dick Attlesey	Helsinki , Finland	July 10, 1950
European record	14.0 s	Håkan Lidman	Milan , Italy	September 22, 1940
Championship record	14.3 s	Don Finlay	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 23, 1950, 5:20 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: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgeny Bulanchik	Soviet Union	14.8
2	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	15.0
3	Franz Fritz	Austria	15.2
4th	Olivier Bernard	Switzerland	15.2
5	Arnaldo Balestra	Italy	15.4

Forward 2

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	André-Jacques Marie	France	14.6
2	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	14.8
3	Pol Braekman	Belgium	14.9
4th	Mustafa Batman	Turkey	15.5

Milan Tošnar's third place in his preliminary run was not enough for the final

Forward 3

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Albano Albanese	Italy	15.1
2	Gilbert Omnes	France	15.2
3	Milan Tošnar	Czechoslovakia	15.2
4th	Gosta Mattson	Sweden	15.2
5	Ray Barkway	Great Britain	15.2
6th	Pierre Van de Sijpe	Belgium	15.5

final

August 24, 1950, 6.15 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	André-Jacques Marie	France	14.6
2	Ragnar Lundberg	Sweden	14.7
3	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	15.0
4th	Albano Albanese	Italy	15.1
5	Gilbert Omnes	France	15.2
6th	Yevgeny Bulanchik	Soviet Union	15.2

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  European champion André-Jacques Marie

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  Ragnar Lundberg - vice European champion over 110 meter hurdles , European champion in pole vault

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 27, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles 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, 110 m hurdles 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. Men's 110-Meter Hurdles , accessed March 27, 2019