European Athletics Championships 1950/4 × 400 m men
4. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | 4 × 400 m relay of men |
city | Brussels |
Stadion | Heysel Stadium |
Attendees | 9 relays with 36 athletes |
Competition phase | August 26th (preliminary) August 27th (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Great Britain |
silver | Italy |
bronze | Sweden |
The men's 4 x 400 meter relay 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 Great Britain in the occupation Martin Pike , Leslie Lewis , Angus Scott and Derek Pugh . Italy won the silver medal with Baldassare Porto , Armando Filiput , Luigi Paterlini and Antonio Siddi . Bronze went to Sweden (Gösta Brännström, Tage Ekfeldt, Rune Larsson , Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt ).
Records
Existing records
World record | 3: 08.2 min |
USA ( Ivan Fuqua , Edgar Ablowich , Karl Warner , Bill Carr ) |
OS Los Angeles , USA | August 7, 1932 |
European record | 3: 09.0 min |
Great Britain ( Freddie Wolff , Godfrey Rampling , Bill Roberts , Godfrey Brown ) |
OS Berlin , Germany | August 8, 1936 |
Championship record | 3: 13.7 min |
German Empire ( Hermann Blazejezak , Manfred Bues , Erich Linnhoff , Rudolf Harbig ) |
EM Paris , France | September 5, 1938 |
Record improvement
Great Britain improved the existing championship record in the line-up of Martin Pike , Leslie Lewis , Angus Scott and Derek Pugh by 3.5 seconds to 3: 10.2 min.
Preliminary round
August 26, 1950
The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
space | Season | occupation | Time (min) |
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1 | Sweden |
Gösta Brännström Days Ekfeldt Rune Larsson Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt |
3: 17.4 |
2 | Great Britain |
Martin Pike Leslie Lewis Angus Scott Derek Pugh |
3: 18.4 |
3 | Soviet Union |
Pawel Kijanenko Gennadij Modoi Heino Potter Sergei Komarov |
3: 18.6 |
4th | Belgium |
Albert Lowagie Jean-Baptiste Peeters Oscar Soetewey Marcel Dits |
3: 19.4 SB |
Forward 2
space | Season | occupation | Time (min) |
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1 | Italy |
Baldassare Porto Armando Filiput Luigi Paterlini Antonio Siddi |
3: 15.2 |
2 | Finland |
Jaakko Suikkari Lennart Lindberg Ragnar Graeffe Rolf Back |
3: 16.4 SB |
3 | France |
René Leroux Francis Scheweita Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jacques Lunis |
3: 16.8 |
4th | Yugoslavia |
Marko Racić Branko Stanković Zvonko Sabolović Lazar Milosevski |
3: 19.2 SB |
5 | Netherlands |
Jan Hofmeester Frans Buys Constant Mahieu Harry de Kroon |
3: 19.4 SB |
final
August 27, 1950
space | Season | occupation | Time (min) |
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1 | Great Britain |
Martin Pike Leslie Lewis Angus Scott Derek Pugh |
3: 10.2 CR |
2 | Italy |
Baldassare Porto Armando Filiput Luigi Paterlini Antonio Siddi |
3: 11.0 SB |
3 | Sweden | Gösta Brännström Days Ekfeldt Rune Larsson Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt |
3: 11.6 SB |
4th | France | René Leroux Francis Scheweita Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jacques Lunis |
3: 11.6 SB |
5 | Soviet Union | Pawel Kijanenko Gennadij Modoi Heino Potter Sergei Komarov |
3: 15.4 SB |
6th | Finland |
Jaakko Suikkari Lennart Lindberg Ragnar Graeffe Rolf Back |
3: 16.6 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 29, 2019
- Men 4x400m Relay European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 29, 2019
- IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 29, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 4 × 400 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 29, 2019
- 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 29, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 400 m , accessed on March 29, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 400 m at rfea.es, p. 37 (PDF), accessed on April 7, 2019