European Athletics Championships 1950/1500 m men

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	19 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 27th (final)
Medalist
gold	Willem Slijkhuis ( NED )
silver	Patrick El Mabrouk ( FRA )
bronze	Bill Nankeville ( GBR )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's 1500-meter run at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

European champion was Willem Slijkhuis from the Netherlands . Second place went to the Frenchman Patrick El Mabrouk . The Briton Bill Nankeville won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 43.0 min	Gunder Hägg	Gothenburg , Sweden	July 7, 1944
European record
Championship record	3: 48.0 min	Lennart Beach	EM in Oslo , Norway	August 25, 1946

Record improvement

 Willem Slijkhuis improved the EM record in the final by eight tenths of a second to 3: 47.2 minutes.

Preliminary round

August 24, 1950, 5:40 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Len Eyre	Great Britain	3: 53.0
2	Ilmari Taipale	Finland	3: 53.2
3	Frans Herman	Belgium	3: 54.6 PB
4th	Lennart Beach	Sweden	3: 58.2 SB
5	Zdravko Ceraj	Yugoslavia	4: 01.8 PB

Forward 2

Hans Harting's fifth place in the second run was not enough for the final qualification

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jean Vernier	France	3: 54.6
2	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3: 54.7
3	Andrija Otenhajmer	Yugoslavia	3: 55.0
4th	Bill Nankeville	Great Britain	3: 55.6
5	Hans Harting	Netherlands	3: 56.8 PB
6th	Alois Imfeld	Switzerland	4: 01.2 PB
7th	Angelo Tagliapietra	Italy	4: 01.8 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Patrick El Mabrouk	France	4: 01.8
2	Willem Slijkhuis	Netherlands	4: 02.6
3	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	4: 02.8
4th	Daniel Janssens	Belgium	4: 04.2
5	Bruno Schneider	Austria	4: 04.8 PB
6th	Loukas Adamopoulos	Greece	4: 08.6 PB
7th	Pétur Einarsson	Iceland	4: 08.8 PB

final

European champion Willem Slijkhuis - here as the winner over 1500 meters in the international match Netherlands vs. Norway in 1951

August 27, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Willem Slijkhuis	Netherlands	3: 47.2 CR
2	Patrick El Mabrouk	France	3: 47.8 SB
3	Bill Nankeville	Great Britain	3: 48.0 NO
4th	Ilmari Taipale	Finland	3: 50.4 PB
5	Len Eyre	Great Britain	3: 51.0 PB
6th	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3: 51.4 SB
7th	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3: 52.4 SB
8th	Jean Vernier	France	3: 53.2 PB
9	Andrija Otenhajmer	Yugoslavia	3: 53.4 PB
10	Daniel Janssens	Belgium	3: 56.8 PB
11	Frans Herman	Belgium	4: 05.2
DNF	Lennart Beach	Sweden

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  Vice European Champion Patrick El Mabrouk

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  Ingvar Ericsson came in seventh

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  Frans Herman finished eleventh

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  The defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 1948 Lennart Strand did not reach the goal this time

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 27, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 27, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 1500 m 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. 1500 m men , accessed March 27, 2019