European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's long jump

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	17 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 25 (qualifying) August 26 (final)
Medalist
gold	Torfi Bryngeirsson ( ISL )
silver	Gerard Wessels ( NED )
bronze	Jaroslav Fikejz ( TCH )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's long jump at the European Athletics Championships 1950 was held on August 25 and 26, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

The Icelander Torfi Bryngeirsson won . Vice European champion was the Dutchman Gerard Wessels. Bronze went to the Czechoslovak Jaroslav Fikejz .

Existing records

World record	8.13 m	Jesse Owens	Ann Arbor , USA	May 25, 1935
European record	7.90 m	Luz Long	Berlin , Germany	August 1, 1937
Championship record	7.65 m	Wilhelm Leichum	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938

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

qualification

August 25, 1950, 10:30 a.m.

The seventeen participants competed in a common qualifying round. The best nine of them (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

René Valmy, a member of the French 4 x 100 meter relay that won silver in the 1946 European Championship , failed to qualify

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Álvaro Cachulo	Portugal	7.32
2	Paul Faucher	France	7.22
3	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	7.20
4th	Gerard Wessels	Netherlands	7.17
5	Jaroslav Fikejz	Czechoslovakia	7.10
6th	Fred Hammer	Luxembourg	7.02
7th	Nilsen rune	Norway	7.00
8th	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	7.00
9	Boris Brnad	Yugoslavia	6.96
10	Walter Lombardi	Italy	6.95
11	Pierre Knepper	Luxembourg	6.92
12	Felix Würth	Austria	6.86
13	Luis García	Portugal	6.78
14th	René Valmy	France	6.72
15th	Harry Askew	Great Britain	6.69
16	René Libert	Belgium	6.47
17th	Raymond Driesen	Belgium	6.20

final

August 26, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Torfi Bryngeirsson	Iceland	7.32 NO
2	Gerard Wessels	Netherlands	7.22 PB
3	Jaroslav Fikejz	Czechoslovakia	7.20 PB
4th	Álvaro Cachulo	Portugal	7.00
5	Nilsen rune	Norway	6.96
6th	Fred Hammer	Luxembourg	6.92
7th	Paul Faucher	France	6.81
8th	Boris Brnad	Yugoslavia	6.52
DNS	Harry Whittle	Great Britain

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 30, 2019
• Men Long Jump 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, long jump men 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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men , accessed March 30, 2019