European Athletics Championships 1950 / Men's Decathlon

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's decathlon
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	15 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 24-25
Medalist
gold	Ignace Heinrich ( FRA )
silver	Örn Clausen ( ISL )
bronze	Kjell Tånnander ( SWE )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's decathlon at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was played on August 24 and 25, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

Frenchman Ignace Heinrich became European champion . Icelander Örn Clausen took second place . The Swede Kjell Tånnander won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	8042 P 1934 rating	7287 P 1985 rating	Bob Mathias	Tulare , USA	June 29-30, 1950
European record	7824.5 P 1934 rating	7147 P 1985 rating	Hans-Heinrich Sievert	Hamburg , Germany	July 8, 1934
Championship record	7214 P 1934 rating	6687 P 1985 rating	Olle Bexell	EM Paris , France	September 4-5, 1938

Record improvement

European champion Ignace Heinrich improved the existing EM record by exactly 150 P to 7364 P - according to the current rating from 1985: 6827 P  

execution

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days.

Time schedule
Day 1 - August 23		Day 2 - August 24th
100 m	10.30 a.m.	110 m hurdles	10.30 a.m.
Long jump	11.30 a.m.	Discus throw	11.30 a.m.
Shot put	4.15 p.m.	Pole vault	4:25 p.m.
high jump	5.15 p.m.	Javelin throw	6 p.m.
400 m	7.15 p.m.	1500 m	7:05 p.m.

As at the last European Championships, the scoring was based on the points table from 1934.

Result

23/24 August 1950

Preliminary remark on the point
values : The information on the points converted to a newer rating system differ in the two main sources. The reason for this is probably that this conversion at todor.com was not based on the latest point table. That is why the EAA values ​​are listed here.

The table also includes individual results from the first day as well as the half-time score after the first day.

space	Surname	nation	Points official scoring	Points 1985 rating	100 m (s)	Long jump (noun)	Shot put (noun)	High jump (noun)	400 m (s)	Status after day 1 (pts)
1	Ignace Heinrich	France	7364 CR	6827	11.3		13.14 (3.)			3790
2	Örn Clausen	Iceland	7297 PB	6819	10.9	7.09	13.17 (2.)	1.80 (4.)	49.8 (1.)	4104
3	Kjell Tånnander	Sweden	7275 PB	6664	11.3		13.54 (1.)	1.86 (2.)		3869
4th	Göran Widenfelt	Sweden	7005 PB	6566	11.5	6.65		1.96 (1.)		3778
5	Armin Scheurer	Switzerland	6944 PB	6460	11.2	6.61				3458
6th	Vladimir Volkov	Soviet Union	6869 SB	6498	11.2	6.61			50.8 (2.)	3582
7th	Edward Adamczyk	Poland	6861 PB	6447	11.5	6.95	12.56 (4.)		50.8 (3rd)	6629
8th	Miloslav Moravec	Czechoslovakia	6824 PB	6482	11.3	6.82				3672
9	Viktor Iyevlev	Soviet Union	6736 PB	6347	11.9	6.74				3442
10	Pierre spokesman	France	6394 PB	6107	11.8	6.20			51.4 (4.)	3241
11	Geoff Elliott	Great Britain	6237 PB	5900	11.3	6.25		1.80 (3.)		3328
12	Before that, Marčelja	Yugoslavia	6201 PB	5934	12.0	6.28				3108
13	Oto Rebula	Yugoslavia	6026 PB	5630	11.6	6.10				3110
14th	John van Mullem	Belgium	5236 PB	5081	12.1	6.25				2990
DNF	Albert Dayer	Belgium			12.0	5.65

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved in 1985 according to the current rating system are also listed for comparison. There would have been some deviations in the placements afterwards:

• Sixth-placed Vladimir Volkov would be fifth.
• The eighth-placed Miloslav Moravec would be sixth.
• The fifth-placed Armin Scheurer would be seventh.
• Seventh-placed Edward Adamczyk would be eighth.
• In the stands behind, the athletes in stands eleven and twelve should have swapped their places.

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

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  European champion Ignace Heinrich

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  Bronze medalist Kjell Tånnander

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 31, 2019
• Decathlon 100m European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed on March 31, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 31, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, decathlon 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. Decathlon , accessed March 31, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Decathlon on rfea.es, p. 38 (PDF), accessed on April 7, 2019
3. ^ Homepage of the EAA
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