European Athletics Championships 1958/110 m hurdles of men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd (preliminary) August 23rd (semi-finals) August 24th (final)
Medalist
gold	Martin Lauer ( GER )
silver	Stanko Lorger ( YUG )
bronze	Anatoly Mikhailov ( URS )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held from August 22 to 24, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The German runner Martin Lauer became European champion . He won ahead of the Yugoslav Stanko Lorger . Bronze went to Anatoly Michailow from the Soviet Union.

Records

Existing records

World record	13.4 s	Jack Davis	Bakersfield , USA	June 22, 1956
European record	13.7 s	Martin Lauer	Cologne , then FR Germany (now Germany )	July 31, 1957
			Ludwigshafen , then BR Germany (now Germany )	7th August 1957
			Cologne , then FR Germany (now Germany )	July 9, 1958
			Augsburg , then FR Germany (now Germany )	July 13, 1958
			Hanover , then BR Germany (now Germany )	July 19, 1958
Championship record	14.3 s	Don Finlay	EM Paris , France	September 4, 1938

Record improvement

European champion Martin Lauer improved the existing EM record at these European championships twice:  

• 14.2 s - advance, August 22
• 13.7 s - final, August 24

With his new championship record, Martin Lauer also equalized his own European record for the sixth time.

Preliminary round

August 22, 1958, 10:00 a.m.

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martin Lauer	Germany	14.2 CR
2	Olsen gate	Norway	14.8
3	Nereo Svara	Italy	15.0
4th	Milad Petrušić	Yugoslavia	15.2
5	Eamonn Kinsella	Ireland	15.3
DNS	Arnold Tschudi	Switzerland

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	14.5
2	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	14.5
3	Jacques Dohen	France	14.9
4th	Peter Nederhand	Netherlands	14.9
5	Lars Bergland	Sweden	15.3
6th	Ioannis Kambadelis	Greece	15.3

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.4
2	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	14.8
3	Eef Kamerbeek	Netherlands	14.8
4th	Ivan Veselský	Czechoslovakia	15.0
5	Edward Bugała	Poland	15.3
6th	Heinrich Staub	Switzerland	15.5

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.5
2	Kenneth Johanson	Sweden	14.6
3	Günter Brand	Germany	15.6
4th	Georges Salmon	Belgium	15.6

Semifinals

August 23, 1958, 3 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Eef Kamerbeek was eliminated in sixth place in his semifinal run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martin Lauer	Germany	14.5
2	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	14.9
3	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	14.9
4th	Olsen gate	Norway	14.9
5	Nereo Svara	Italy	15.0
6th	Eef Kamerbeek	Netherlands	15.1

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.4
2	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.7
3	Kenneth Johanson	Sweden	14.8
4th	Jacques Dohen	France	14.9
5	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	15.0
6th	Günter Brand	Germany	15.1

final

European record holder Martin Lauer fully lived up to his role as a favorite

August 24, 1958, 2:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martin Lauer	Germany	13.7 ERe
2	Stanko Lorger	Yugoslavia	14.1
3	Anatoly Mikhailov	Soviet Union	14.4
4th	Peter Hildreth	Great Britain	14.4
5	Giorgio Mazza	Italy	14.6
6th	Kenneth Johanson	Sweden	14.7

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  Vice European Champion Stanko Lorger

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  Giorgio Mazza reached number five

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 25, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles 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, 110 m hurdles 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. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed April 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 110 m Hurdles , p. 16 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on April 21, 2019 (French / English)