European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's hammer throw

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	13 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 25 (qualifying) August 27 (final)
Medalist
gold	Sverre Strandli ( NOR )
silver	Teseo Taddia ( ITA )
bronze	Jiří Dadák ( TCH )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships 1950 was held on August 25 and 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

European champion was the Norwegian Sverre Strandli . He won ahead of the Italian Teseo Taddia . Bronze went to the Czechoslovakian Jiří Dadák.

Existing records

World record	59.88 m	Imre Németh	Budapest , Hungary	May 19, 1950
European record
Championship record	58.77 m	Karl Hein	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 25, 1950

The thirteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The first nine throwers (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Teseo Taddia	Italy	55.05 SB
2	Sverre Strandli	Norway	54.17
3	Alexandr Kanaki	Soviet Union	53.73 PB
4th	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	52.29
5	Jiří Dadák	Czechoslovakia	52.27
6th	Duncan Clark	Great Britain	52.25
7th	Svend-Aage Frederiksen	Denmark	50.87 SB
8th	Rudolf Galin	Yugoslavia	48.54
9	Ewan Douglas	Great Britain	47.31
10	Henri Haest	Belgium	47.22 PB
11	Toma Balcı	Turkey	46.63 PB
12	André Osterberger	France	46.45 PB
13	Pierre Legrain	France	46.21 SB

final

European champion Sverre Strandli

August 27, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Sverre Strandli	Norway	55.71 SB
2	Teseo Taddia	Italy	54.73
3	Jiří Dadák	Czechoslovakia	53.64 SB
4th	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	53.34 SB
5	Alexandr Kanaki	Soviet Union	53.09
6th	Duncan Clark	Great Britain	52.83 PB
7th	Svend-Aage Frederiksen	Denmark	50.01
8th	Ewan Douglas	Great Britain	49.18 PB
9	Rudolf Galin	Yugoslavia	49.01 PB

The series of third-placed Jiří Dadák is well known:
52.99 m / 52.86 m / 51.71 m / 51.18 m / x / 53.64 m

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  Bronze medalist Jiří Dadák

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  Ivan Gubijan finished fourth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 31, 2019
• Men Hammer 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, men's hammer throw 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. Hammer Throw Men , accessed March 31, 2019