European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's javelin

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 26th (qualification) August 27th (final)
Medalist
gold	Toivo Hyytiäinen ( FIN )
silver	Per-Arne Berglund ( SWE )
bronze	Ragnar Ericzon ( SWE )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's 100-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1950 was held on August 26 and 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

With silver and bronze there were two medals for Sweden in this competition. Toivo Hyytiäinen from Finland became European champion . Per-Arne Berglund came in second. Bronze went to Ragnar Ericzon.

Existing records

World record	78.70 m	Yrjö Nikkanen	Kotka , Finland	October 16, 1938
European record
Championship record	76.87 m	Matti Järvinen	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938

Matti Järvinen's EM record, which has been in place since the second European Championships, has remained unchanged here in Brussels .

qualification

August 26, 1950, 5:15 p.m.

The sixteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 65.00 m. As only four throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next placed athletes to nine participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.66 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	60.60	68.49	-	68.49
2	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	68.02	-	-	68.02
3	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	64.09	61.25	67.36	67.36 SB
4th	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	65.29	-	-	65.29
5	Mirco Vujacic	Yugoslavia	63.74	60.93	x	63.74
6th	Erwin Pektor	Austria	x	63.51	x	63.51 SB
7th	Amos Matteucci	Italy	61.63	57.60	61.05	61.63
8th	Viktor Iyevlev	Soviet Union	x	52.20	61.25	61.25 PB
9	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	59.78	60.66	58.23	60.66
10	Halil Zıraman	Turkey	60.46	51.50	x	60.46 PB
11	Branko Dangubic	Yugoslavia	x	59.37	57.39	59.37 PB
12	Jóel Sigurðsson	Iceland	58.87	56.91	57.58	58.87 PB
13	Vasilios Kalimanis	Greece	47.71	54.28	49.50	54.28 PB
14th	Raymond van Eycken	Belgium	x	52.52	52.82	52.82 PB
15th	Ernst Lüthi	Switzerland	50.81	51.54	x	51.54 PB
16	Raymond Prud'homme	Belgium	40.29	46.35	45.40	46.35 PB

final

August 27, 1950, 4:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	67.92	69.21	x	65.81	70.75	71.26	71.26 SB
2	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	67.86	65.42	70.06	62.48	62.87	x	70.06 PB
3	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	66.70	61.29	64.82	63.85	63.59	69.82	69.82 PB
4th	Mirco Vujacic	Yugoslavia	66.84	64.48	x	60.19	x	x	66.84 SB
5	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	62.18	66.20	64.34	62.45	63.23	63.98	66.20
6th	Amos Matteucci	Italy	61.82	64.99	59.75	64.21	58.02	62.52	64.99 PB
7th	Erwin Pektor	Austria	59.33	62.13	59.00	not in the final of the six best throwers			62.13
8th	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	60.46	61.50	60.12				61.50 PB
9	Viktor Iyevlev	Soviet Union	58.59	58.09	52.06				58.59

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 31, 2019
• Men Javelin 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, javelin 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. Javelin Men , accessed March 31, 2019