European Athletics Championships 1950/5000 m men
| 4. European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | Men's 5000 meter run |
| city |
 Brussels
|
| Stadion | Heysel Stadium |
| Attendees | 16 athletes from 11 countries |
| Competition phase | August 24th (preliminary) August 26th (final) |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Emil Zátopek ( TCH )
 |
 silver |
Alain Mimoun ( FRA )
 |
 bronze |
Gaston Reiff ( BEL )
|
The men's 5000-meter race at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 26, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .
The European champion was the Czechoslovak Emil Zátopek . He won ahead of the Frenchman Alain Mimoun . The Belgian Gaston Reiff won bronze .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 13: 58.2 min |
 Gunder Hägg
|
Gothenburg , Sweden | September 20, 1942 |
| European record | ||||
| Championship record | 14: 08.6 min |
 Sydney Wooderson
|
EM Oslo , Norway | August 23, 1946 |
Record improvement
Emil Zátopek improved the EM record in the final by 5.6 seconds to 14: 03.0 minutes.
Preliminary round
August 24, 1950, 6.45 p.m.
The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first six athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
It is difficult to understand why preliminary runs were made here at all. It would have been easy to send the sixteen participants out on the track together. As in many other running disciplines, there is also the imbalance of the preliminary divisions. A first run was carried out with nine runners, three of which did not reach the final. In the second run only seven athletes competed against each other, of which only one was eliminated.
Forward 1
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emil Zatopek |
Czechoslovakia
|
14: 56.0 |
| 2 | Väinö Mäkelä |
 Finland
|
14: 56.2 |
| 3 | Lucien Theys |
Belgium
|
15: 03.0 |
| 4th | Jacques Vernier |
France
|
15: 03.6 PB |
| 5 | Stevan Pavlović |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
15: 06.2 |
| 6th | Bertil Karlsson |
Sweden
|
15: 07.2 PB |
| 7th | Vasilios Mavrapostolos |
.svg){kind=small} Greece
|
15: 08.4 NO |
| 8th | Kurt Rötzer |
 Austria
|
15: 08.4 NO |
| 9 | Aage Poulsen |
 Denmark
|
NT |
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hannu Posti |
Finland
|
14: 47.2 |
| 2 | Alec Olney |
Great Britain
|
14: 55.6 |
| 3 | Božidar Đurašković |
Yugoslavia
|
15: 00.6 |
| 4th | Bertil Albertsson |
Sweden
|
15: 09.0 |
| 5 | Gaston Reiff |
Belgium
|
15: 10.0 |
| 6th | Alain Mimoun |
France
|
15: 11.0 |
| 7th | August Sutter |
 Switzerland
|
15: 13.0 |
final
August 26, 1950
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emil Zatopek |
Czechoslovakia
|
14: 03.0 CR / NO |
| 2 | Alain Mimoun |
France
|
14: 26.0 SB |
| 3 | Gaston Reiff |
Belgium
|
14: 26.2 SB |
| 4th | Väinö Mäkelä |
Finland
|
14: 30.8 PB |
| 5 | Hannu Posti |
Finland
|
14: 40.8 PB |
| 6th | Lucien Theys |
Belgium
|
14: 42.4 PB |
| 7th | Stevan Pavlović |
Yugoslavia
|
14: 50.2 PB |
| 8th | Alec Olney |
Great Britain
|
14: 51.8 PB |
| 9 | Božidar Đurašković |
Yugoslavia
|
14: 52.4 PB |
| 10 | Bertil Albertsson |
Sweden
|
15: 02.2 SB |
| 11 | Bertil Karlsson |
Sweden
|
15: 09.4 |
| DNF | Jacques Vernier |
France
|
Alain Mimoun became vice European champion like over 10,000 meters
The 1948 Olympic champion Gaston Reiff won the bronze medal
Bertil Albertsson came in tenth
Eleventh place for Bertil Karlsson
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 27, 2019
- Men 5000m European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 27, 2019
- IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 27, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 27, 2019
- 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 27, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed March 27, 2019