European Athletics Championships 1950 / Men's discus throw

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	18 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 24th (qualification) August 26th (final)
Medalist
gold	Adolfo Consolini ( ITA )
silver	Giuseppe Tosi ( ITA )
bronze	Olavi Partanen ( FIN )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1950 was held on August 24 and 26, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

In this competition, the results of the European Championships in 1946 and the Olympic Games in 1948 were repeated in the first two places . There was a double win for Italy. European champion was Adolfo Consolini ahead of Giuseppe Tosi . Bronze went to the Finn Olavi Partanen.

Records

Existing records

World record	56.97 m	Fortune Gordia	Hämeenlinna , Finland	August 14, 1949
European record	55.47 m	Adolfo Consolini	Rome , Italy	July 23, 1950
Championship record	53.29 m		EM Oslo , Norway	August 24, 1946

Record improvement

European champion Adolfo Consolini improved his own EM record in the final by 46 centimeters to 53.75 meters.  

qualification

August 24, 1950, 10:30 a.m.

The eighteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 44.00 m. Nine throwers exceeded this value (highlighted in light blue) and qualified for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	49.63
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	47.99
3	Stone Johnson	Norway	47.62
4th	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	45.60
5	Danilo Žerjal	Yugoslavia	45.27
6th	Arne Hellberg	Sweden	44.78
7th	Alojz Kormúth	Czechoslovakia	44.64
8th	Olavi Partans	Finland	44.33
9	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	44.14
10	Hermann Tunner	Austria	43.90
11	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	43.78
12	Oskar Hafliger	Switzerland	43.39
13	Clement Mertens	Belgium	42.60
14th	Raymond Kintziger	Belgium	42.46
15th	Tauno Karlsson	Finland	42.46
16	Jean Darot	France	41.85
17th	Serge Grisoni	France	41.26
18th	José Luis Torres	Spain	38.92

final

Adolfo Consolini won his third major international title in a row

August 26, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	53.75 CR
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	52.31 SB
3	Olavi Partans	Finland	48.69 PB
4th	Stone Johnson	Norway	48.55 PB
5	Arne Hellberg	Sweden	47.37 PB
6th	Alojz Kormúth	Czechoslovakia	46.17 PB
7th	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	46.14 SB
8th	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	45.93 SB
9	Danilo Žerjal	Yugoslavia	45.92 PB

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  Giuseppe Tosi - for the third time in a row in second place behind Adolfo Consolini at major international championships

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  Arne Hellberg came in fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 31, 2019
• Men Discus Throw European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 31, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 31, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 31, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 31, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed March 31, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Discus Throw at rfea.es, p. 29 (PDF), accessed April 7, 2019