European Athletics Championships 1950 / women's pentathlon

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's Pentathlon
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Participants	11 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 25-26
Medalists
gold	Arlette Ben Hamo ( FRA )
silver	Bertha Crowther ( GBR )
bronze	Olga Modrachová ( TCH )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The women's pentathlon at the 1950 European Athletics Championships took place on August 25 and 26, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

The European champion was the French Arlette Ben Hamo . The British Bertha Crowther won the silver medal. Third place went to the Czechoslovakian Olga Modrachová.

Existing records

World record	4305 P 1950 value.	4608 P 1954 value.	3928 P 1980 value.	Alexandra Tschudina	Tbilisi , then USSR (now Georgia )	October 8/9, 1949
European record
EM record	New in programm

Notes on the world and European records:

• Depending on the source, different information about the existing world record can be found. There is a corresponding breakdown in the source used here. Gisela Mauermayer set a world record in Stuttgart in 1938 with 4,391 points, which Lena Stumpf improved to 4507 points in 1949 - values ​​based on the points table from 1954 . However, these two records were achieved in a pentathlon with other disciplines than was the case at these European Championships. Therefore, in contrast to Alexandra Tschudina's competition, they are not comparable with the current all-around competition.
  • Disciplines in the Mauermayer and Stumpf competitions: shot put , long jump , 100 m / high jump , javelin throw
  • Disciplines in the Tschudina competition and the European Championships: shot put , high jump , 200 m , 80 m hurdles , long jump - in different order
• Alexandra Tschudina's world record was initially unofficial.

execution

The five disciplines of the pentathlon took place over two days.

Time schedule
Day 1 - August 25th		Day 2 - August 26th
80 m hurdles	11.00 a.m.	Shot put	10.30 a.m.
Long jump	6:35 p.m.	high jump	4.15 p.m.
		200 m	6 p.m.

The scoring was based on a point table from 1950.

Result

August 24-25, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Points official scoring	Points 1980 rating	80 m hurdles (s)	Long jump (noun)	Shot put (noun)	High jump (noun)	200 m (s)
1	Arlette Ben Hamo	France	3204 CR	3221	12.4	5.18 0(3.)	10.11 0(6.)	1.50 0(3.)	26.1 0(1.)
2	Bertha Crowther	Great Britain	3048 PB	3087	12.5	5.15 0(4.)	08.66 (11.)	1.56 0(1.)	27.1 0(5.)
3	Olga Modrachová	Czechoslovakia	3026 SB	3066	12.9	4.96 0(7.)	10.40 0(4.)	1.53 0(2.)	27.0 0(3.)
4th	Mona Lisa Eglund	Sweden	2936 PB	3028	12.6	5.03 0(6.)	10.26 0(5.)	1.45 0(5.)	27.0 0(3.)
5	Marguerite Martel	France	2918 PB	3019	12.4	5.32 0(1.)	09.66 0(5.)	1.45 0(5.)	28.0 0(6.)
6th	Unni Sæter	Norway	2870 PB	2996	13.2	5.23 0(2.)	09.90 0(7.)	1.45 0(5.)	26.8 0(2.)
7th	Klavdiya Tochonova	Soviet Union	2818 PB	2850	14.0	4.67 0(9.)	13.82 0(1.)	1.40 0(9.)	28.1 0(7.)
8th	Ivanka Knez	Yugoslavia	2778 PB	2894	13.0	5.04 0(5.)	09.74 0(9.)	1.50 0(3.)	28.3 0(9.)
9	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	2501 SB	2726	13.6	4.68 0(8.)	11.23 0(2.)	1.40 0(9.)	28.1 0(7.)
10	Kirsti Jordet	Norway	2489 PB	2704	13.7	4.64 (10.)	10.75 0(3.)	1.45 0(5.)	28.4 (10.)
11	Fani Argiriou	Greece	1862 SB	2304	14.5	4.56 (11.)	09.79 0(8.)	1.35 (11.)	30.1 (11.)

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved in 1980 according to the current rating system are also listed for comparison. With regard to the placements, there would have been a shift:
The seventh-placed Klawdija Totschonowa and the eighth-placed Ivanka Knez would have had to swap places.

But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

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  European champion Arlette Ben Hamo

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  Seventh-placed Klawdija Totschonowa - here on the far left at the award ceremony of the 1952 Olympic Games , where she won bronze in the shot put

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on April 3, 2019
• Women Pentathlon. European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed on April 3, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 3, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, pentathlon women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 3, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on April 3, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pentathlon , p. 77 (PDF) accessed on April 3, 2019