1950 European Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put
4. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Shot Put Men |
city | Brussels |
Stadion | Heysel Stadium |
Attendees | 13 athletes from 11 countries |
Competition phase | August 25 (qualification / final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Gunnar Huseby ( ISL ) |
silver | Angiolo Profeti ( ITA ) |
bronze | Oto Grigalka ( URS ) |
The shot put men at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was on 25 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital Brussels held.
The Icelandic defending champion Gunnar Huseby became European champion . He won ahead of the Italian Angiolo Profeti . Bronze went to Oto Grigalka from the USSR.
Records
Existing records
World record | 17.95 m | Jim Fox | Eskilstuna , Sweden | 22nd August 1950 |
European record | 16.93 m | Heino Lipp | Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia ) | August 6, 1950 |
Championship record | 15.83 m | Aleksander Kreek | EM Paris , France | September 4, 1938 |
Record improvement
European champion Gunnar Huseby improved the EM record twice:
- 16.29 m - Qualification, August 25
- 16.74 m - final, August 25
qualification
August 25, 1950, 10:30 a.m.
The thirteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.50 m. Nine athletes exceeded this value (highlighted in light blue) and thus qualified for the final.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Gunnar Huseby | Iceland | 16.29 CR |
2 | John Savidge | Great Britain | 15.54 SB |
3 | Oto Grigalka | Soviet Union | 15.45 SB |
4th | Vladimír Jirout | Czechoslovakia | 15.23 PB |
5 | Petar Šarčević | Yugoslavia | 15.18 SB |
6th | Angiolo Profeti | Italy | 14.95 |
7th | Willy Senn | Switzerland | 14.79 |
8th | Gosta Arvidsson | Sweden | 14.57 SB |
9 | John Giles | Great Britain | 14.52 PB |
10 | Konstantinos Giataganas | Greece | 14.49 PB |
11 | Roger Verhaes | Belgium | 14.37 PB |
12 | Willy Wuyts | Belgium | 13.28 SB |
13 | Jean Darot | France | 13.12 PB |
final
August 25, 1950
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Gunnar Huseby | Iceland | 16.74 CR / NO |
2 | Angiolo Profeti | Italy | 15.16 PB |
3 | Oto Grigalka | Soviet Union | 15.14 |
4th | Willy Senn | Switzerland | 14.95 PB |
5 | Petar Šarčević | Yugoslavia | 14.90 |
6th | Vladimír Jirout | Czechoslovakia | 14.89 |
7th | John Savidge | Great Britain | 14.69 |
8th | John Giles | Great Britain | 14.29 |
9 | Gosta Arvidsson | Sweden | 14.17 |
European champion Gunnar Huseby had the following series in the final:
16.18 m / 16.74 m / 16.00 m / 16.09 m / 14.91 m / 16.12 m.
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 30, 2019
- Men Shot Put European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 30, 2019
- IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 30, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on March 30, 2019
- 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 30, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed March 30, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 27 (PDF), accessed on April 7, 2019