European Athletics Championships 1950/200 m men

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 25th (preliminary) August 26th (semi-finals) August 27th (final)
Medalist
gold	Brian Shenton ( GBR )
silver	Étienne Bally ( FRA )
bronze	Jan Lammers ( NED )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's 200-meter run at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held from 25 to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

British Brian Shenton became European champion . Frenchman Étienne Bally came in second . Bronze went to Jan Lammers from the Netherlands .

Existing records

World record	20.3 s	Jesse Owens	Ann Arbor , USA	May 25, 1935
		Mel Patton	Evanston , USA	July 10, 1948
European record	20.9 s	Helmut Körnig	Berlin , Germany	August 9, 1928
Championship record	21.2 s	Martinus Osendarp	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

Notes on the world and European records:

• Jesse Owens and Mel Patton set their world records on a straight track, Owens over the actually longer 220  yards . The IAAF made until 1950 in the recognition of world records not make the difference between straight lines and those with full curve like on a 400-meter track. Up until then, Jesse Owens, with his 20.7 seconds , was the fastest sprinter at the Olympic Games in Berlin on August 5, 1936, on a track with a full curve .
• Helmut Körnig also achieved his European record on a straight track.

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

Preliminary round

August 25, 1950, 5:15 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals. Here, too, as in previous European championships, there was an uneven division of the preliminary runs. Races four to six were filled with five participants each, the first and second with four runners each. In the third race, only two athletes started who only had to reach the finish in order to be in the next lap.

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Étienne Bally	France	21.6
2	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	22.4
3	Fred Hammer	Luxembourg	22.5
4th	Jaakko Suikkari	Finland	22.7

Forward 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.5
2	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	22.0
3	Knud Schibsbye	Denmark	22.1
4th	Hector Gosset	Belgium	22.6

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mario Colarossi	Italy	22.4
2	Willy Burgisser	Switzerland	22.5

Forward 4

Wind: ± 0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yves Camus	France	22.0
2	Angelo Moretti	Italy	22.0
3	John Gregory	Great Britain	22.1
4th	Henry Johansen	Norway	22.1
5	Jean-Petit Hammer	Luxembourg	22.9

Forward 5

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Petar Pecelj	Yugoslavia	22.0
2	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	22.1
3	Fernand Linssen	Belgium	22.4
4th	Knut Moum	Norway	22.6
5	Mikhail Tsokalis	Greece	22.8

Forward 6

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	21.9
2	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	22.0
3	Willy Eichenberger	Switzerland	22.7
4th	Tomas Paquete	Portugal	23.1
5	Lennart Lindberg	Finland	23.3

Semifinals

August 26, 1950

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Étienne Bally	France	21.9
2	Angelo Moretti	Italy	21.9
3	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	22.0
4th	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	22.0
5	Mario Colarossi	Italy	22.0
6th	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	22.1

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.5
2	Yves Camus	France	21.7
3	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	21.9
4th	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	21.9
5	Petar Pecelj	Yugoslavia	22.0
6th	Willy Burgisser	Switzerland	22.6

final

Shortly before the finish line: Brian Shenton leads, behind him on the left Étienne Bally, on the right of Shenton third-placed Jan Lammers

August 27, 1950

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.5
2	Étienne Bally	France	21.8
3	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	22.1
4th	Angelo Moretti	Italy	22.1
5	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	22.1
6th	Yves Camus	France	22.2

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  Étienne Bally - vice European champion over 200 meters , European champion over 100 meters - in a caricature drawing

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  Bronze medalist Jan Lammers

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 26, 2019
• Men 200m European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 26, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 26, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 26, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 270
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men , accessed March 16, 2019