European Athletics Championships 1958 / 10,000 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 10,000-meter run
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 19th
Medalist
gold	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak ( POL )
silver	Yevgeny Zhukov ( URS )
bronze	Nikolai Pudow ( URS )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

With silver and bronze, the Soviet runners won two medals in this competition. The European champion was Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak from Poland , who won the first of two gold medals at these European championships. Second place went to Yevgeny Zhukov. Bronze went to Nikolai Pudow.

Records

Existing records

World record	28: 30.4 min	Volodymyr Kuz	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	September 11, 1956
European record
Championship record	28: 58.0 min	Emil Zatopek	EM in Bern , Switzerland	August 25, 1954

Record improvement

In the final on August 19th, European champion Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak improved the championship record by two seconds to 28: 56.0 min.  

execution

The competition was held without previous eliminations. All 22 participants started together for the final.

Split times

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 48.0 min	2: 48.0 min
2000 m	5: 33.8 min	2: 45.8 min
3000 m	8: 21.0 min	2: 47.2 min
4000 m	11: 15.0 min	2: 54.0 min
5000 m	14: 14.0 min	2: 59.0 min
6000 m	17: 14.8 min	3: 00.8 min
7000 m	20: 13.0 min	2: 48.2 min
8000 m	23: 12.0 min	2: 59.0 min
9000 m	26: 16.0 min	3: 04.0 min
10,000 m	28: 56.0 min	2: 40.0 min

final

August 19, 1958, 6:05 p.m.

The first three kilometers of this race in particular were run at an extremely high pace, which was a world record in this section. After that, however, it slowed down significantly. The fastest kilometer was then the last, which was marked by a long sprint.

Alain Mimoun - multiple medal
winner at previous Olympic Games, including a marathon winner in 1956 - competed here again and came in seventh

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	Poland	28: 56.0 CR / NO
2	Yevgeny Zhukov	Soviet Union	28: 58.6 PB
3	Nikolai Pudov	Soviet Union	29: 02.2 PB
4th	Stanley Eldon	Great Britain	29: 02.8 NO
5	Stanisław Ożóg	Poland	29: 03.2 PB
6th	John Merriman	Great Britain	29: 03.8 SB
7th	Alain Mimoun	France	29: 30.6 PB
8th	Antonio Amorós	Spain	29: 31.4 NO
9	Drago Štritof	Yugoslavia	29: 34.8 NO
10	Thyge Thøgersen	Denmark	29: 51.8 SB
11	Tor Torgersen	Norway	29: 53.2 PB
12	Xaver Höger	Germany	29: 55.8 PB
13	Gerhard Hönicke	Germany	29: 57.8 PB
14th	Øistein Saksvik	Norway	29: 59.8 PB
15th	Albert Messitt	Ireland	30: 00.0 NO
16	Constantin Grecescu	Romania	30: 00.2 SB
17th	Hein Cujé	Netherlands	30: 09.0 PB
18th	Maurice Chiclet	France	30: 39.0 PB
19th	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium	30: 45.4 PB
20th	Stig Jonsson	Sweden	31: 08.2 PB
DNF	Boris Jonsson	Sweden
	József Kovács	Hungary

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  Gerhard Hönicke reached thirteenth place

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  Hein Cujé came in seventeenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 25, 2019
• Men 10,000m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 10,000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 25, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men , accessed April 24, 2019