European Athletics Championships 1950/4 × 100 m men

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of men
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase	August 23rd (preliminary) August 25th (final)
Medalist
gold	Soviet Union
silver	France
bronze	Sweden

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Athletics Championships 1950 was held on 23 and 25 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

The European champions were the Soviet Union with Vladimir Sucharew , Levan Kaljajew , Levan Sanadze and Nikolai Karakulow . The relay from France won the silver medal in the cast of Étienne Bally , Jacques Perlot, Yves Camus and Jean-Pierre Guillon. Bronze went to Sweden (Göte Kjellberg, Leif Christersson, Stig Danielsson , Hans Rydén).

Existing records

World record	39.8 s	USA ( Jesse Owens , Ralph Metcalfe , Foy Draper , Frank Wykoff )	OS Berlin , Germany	August 9, 1936
European record	40.1 s	German Empire ( Erich Borchmeyer , Gerd Hornberger , Karl Neckermann , Jakob Scheuring )	Berlin , Germany	July 19, 1939
EM record	40.9 s	German Empire ( Manfred Kersch , Gerd Hornberger , Karl Neckermann , Jakob Scheuring )	EM Paris , France	September 5, 1938

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

Preliminary round

August 23, 1950, 7:20 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in two runs with five teams each. The first three seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

The first run was repeated. The reasons for this could not be determined in the sources. The team from Yugoslavia, which had finished fifth and last in the first race, was no longer in the re-run. The same three seasons qualified for the finals as in the original run, only the order among them was different. Belgium finished fourth in both races and was eliminated.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Great Britain	John Gregory Alan Grieve Brian Shenton Austin Pinnington	41.2
2	Soviet Union	Vladimir Sukharev Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Nikolai Karakulow	41.3
3	Iceland	Ásmundur Bjarnason Guðmundur Lárusson Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson Haukur Clausen	42.1
4th	Belgium	Hector Gosset Fernand Linssen Isidore Vandewiele Roland Vercruysse	42.6
5	Yugoslavia		42.9

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	France	Étienne Bally Jacques Perlot Yves Camus Jean-Pierre Guillon	41.4
2	Italy	Franco Leccese Gino Riva Giuseppe Guzzi Angelo Moretti	41.5
3	Sweden	Göte Kjellberg Leif Christersson Stig Danielsson Hans Rydén	42.1
4th	Norway	Erik Bjølseth Henry Johansen Knut Moum Hans Peter Pedersen	42.5
5	Switzerland	Olivier Bernard Hans Wehrli-Frei Willy Eichenberger Willy Burgisser	43.7

Repeat forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Soviet Union	Vladimir Sukharev Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Nikolai Karakulow	41.7
2	Iceland	Ásmundur Bjarnason Guðmundur Lárusson Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson Haukur Clausen	41.7
3	Great Britain	John Gregory Alan Grieve Brian Shenton Austin Pinnington	41.9
4th	Belgium	Hector Gosset Fernand Linssen Isidore Vandewiele Roland Vercruysse	42.2

final

August 25, 1950, 7.45 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Soviet Union	Vladimir Sukharev Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Nikolai Karakulow	41.5
2	France	Étienne Bally Jacques Perlot Yves Camus Jean-Pierre Guillon	41.8
3	Sweden	Göte Kjellberg Leif Christersson Stig Danielsson Hans Rydén	41.9
4th	Great Britain	John Gregory Alan Grieve Brian Shenton Austin Pinnington	41.9
5	Iceland	Ásmundur Bjarnason Guðmundur Lárusson Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson Haukur Clausen	41.9
6th	Italy	Franco Leccese Gino Riva Giuseppe Guzzi Angelo Moretti	43.2

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 28, 2019
• Men 4x100m Relay 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, 4 × 100 m 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. 4 × 100 m , accessed on March 28, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 100 m on rfea.es, p. 34 (PDF), accessed on April 6, 2019