European Athletics Championships 1950/200 m women

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Participants	14 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	August 26th (preliminary) August 27th (final)
Medalists
gold	Fanny Blankers-Koen ( NED )
silver	Yevgenia Setschenowa ( URS )
bronze	Dorothy Hall ( GBR )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The women's 200-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1950 was held on August 26 and 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

European champion was the Dutch fanny Blankers-Koen , the order according to their wins over 100 meters and 80 meters hurdles their third title in these European championships and its fifth EM achieved -Titel total. In second place, like over 100 meters, came Yevgenia Sechenova from the USSR. Bronze went to the British Dorothy Hall .

Existing records

World record	23.6 s	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Warsaw , Poland	4th August 1935
European record
Championship record	23.8 s		EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938

The EM record that has existed since the first European Championships for women remained unchanged at these European Championships.

Preliminary round

August 26, 1950

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

Forward 1

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	24.5
2	Soy Duchowitsch	Soviet Union	25.2
3	Margaret Brian	Great Britain	25.4
4th	Micaela Bora	Italy	26.3
5	Mira Tuce	Yugoslavia	26.5

Forward 2

Grietje de Jonghs ( here as the winner of an 800-meter race in 1953 ) third place in the second heat was not enough for participation in the final

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dorothy Hall	Great Britain	24.6
2	Sofja Malschina	Soviet Union	25.0
3	Grietje de Jongh	Netherlands	25.3
4th	Raisin Faugouin	France	25.7

Forward 3

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgenia Sechenova	Soviet Union	25.0
2	Bertha Brouwer	Netherlands	25.1
3	Elspeth Hay	Great Britain	25.5
4th	Laura Sivi	Italy	25.6
5	Alma Butja	Yugoslavia	26.8

final

August 27, 1950

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	24.0
2	Yevgenia Sechenova	Soviet Union	24.8
3	Dorothy Hall	Great Britain	25.0
4th	Sofja Malschina	Soviet Union	25.0
5	Bertha Brouwer	Netherlands	25.0
6th	Soy Duchowitsch	Soviet Union	25.5

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  The medalists over 200 meters ( from left to right ): Jewgenija Setschenowa, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dorothy Hall

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  Bertha Brouwer reached fifth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on April 1, 2019
• Women 200m 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, 200 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. 200m women , accessed April 1, 2019