European Athletics Championships 1950/400 m hurdles of men

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter hurdles
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 26th (semi-finals) August 27th (final)
Medalist
gold	Armando Filiput ( ITA )
silver	Yuri Litujew ( URS )
bronze	Harry Whittle ( GBR )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1950 was held from August 24 to 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

European champion was the Italian Armando Filiput . He won ahead of the Soviet runner Yuri Litujew . Bronze went to the Briton Harry Whittle .

Records

Existing records

World record	50.6 s	Glenn Hardin	Stockholm , Sweden	July 26, 1934
European record	51.6 s	Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling	Berlin , Germany	July 9, 1939
Championship record	52.2 s	Bertel Storskrubb	EM Oslo , Norway	August 24, 1946

Record improvements

European champion Armando Filiput improved the existing championship record twice:  

• Semi-finals, August 26th: Improvement by 0.2 seconds to 52.0 seconds.
• Finale, August 26th: Improvement by a further tenth of a second to 51.9 seconds.

Preliminary round

August 24, 1950

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yves Cros	France	54.0
2	Ottavio Missoni	Italy	54.2
3	Timofey Lunev	Soviet Union	54.2
4th	Kemal Horulu	Turkey	55.1
5	Fotios Kosmas	Greece	55.2

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Armando Filiput	Italy	53.6
2	Georges Elloy	France	54.3
3	Torben Johannesen	Denmark	54.5
4th	Franz Fritz	Austria	54.5
5	Reidar Nilsen	Norway	55.8

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yuri Lituev	Soviet Union	53.4
2	Lars Ylander	Sweden	54.0
3	Angus Scott	Great Britain	54.3
4th	Jacques De Moor	Belgium	54.8
5	Dogan Acarbay	Turkey	55.3
6th	Igor Zupančič	Yugoslavia	55.4

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	54.3
2	Marcel Dits	Belgium	54.8
3	Rune Larsson	Sweden	55.2
4th	Frans Buys	Belgium	55.6

At the same time as the third, Rune Larsson retired as fourth in his semi-final run

Yves Cros did not reach the final as fifth in his semi-final race

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	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	53.1
2	Yuri Lituev	Soviet Union	53.1
3	Ottavio Missoni	Italy	53.6
4th	Rune Larsson	Sweden	53.6
5	Yves Cros	France	54.1
6th	Torben Johannesen	Denmark	54.5

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Armando Filiput	Italy	52.0 CR / NR
2	Georges Elloy	France	53.2
3	Lars Ylander	Sweden	53.3
4th	Timofey Lunev	Soviet Union	53.4
5	Angus Scott	Great Britain	53.7
6th	Marcel Dits	Belgium	54.0

final

Lars Ylander took fifth place in the final

August 27, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Armando Filiput	Italy	51.9 CR / NO
2	Yuri Lituev	Soviet Union	52.4 NO
3	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	52.7
4th	Ottavio Missoni	Italy	53.6
5	Lars Ylander	Sweden	53.9
6th	Georges Elloy	France	54.3

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 28, 2019
• Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed on March 28, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 400 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 28, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 28, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m hurdles men , accessed on March 28, 2019
2. ^ Portrait of Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English), accessed on March 18, 2019.