European Athletics Championships 1950/4 × 400 m men

4. European Athletics Championships
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 Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

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)
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)
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)
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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 400 m , accessed on March 29, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 400 m at rfea.es, p. 37 (PDF), accessed on April 7, 2019