European Athletics Championships 1958/400 m women
6th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | 400-meter run for women |
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Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Participants | 12 athletes from 8 countries |
Competition phase | August 19th (preliminary) August 21st (final) |
Medalists | |
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Marija Itkina ( URS )
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Ekaterina Parlyuk ( URS )
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Molly Hiscox ( GBR )
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![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/1912_Summer_Olympics_official_postcard.jpg/330px-1912_Summer_Olympics_official_postcard.jpg)
Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912
The women's 400-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 21, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. The competition was on the program of an international championship for the first time. Only twelve participants started.
The runners from the Soviet Union achieved a double success. Marija Itkina became European champion . She won ahead of Ekaterina Parlyuk. Bronze went to the Briton Molly Hiscox.
Records
Existing records
World record | 53.6 s |
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Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia ) | July 6, 1957 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | The competition was on the program of European championships for the first time. |
Record improvement
- The later winner Marija Itkina set her first EM record in the first run on August 19 with 54.0 seconds.
- In the final on August 21, she improved this record to 53.7 seconds.
Preliminary round
August 19, 1958, 4 p.m.
The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Marija Itkina |
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54.0 CR |
2 | Shirley Pirie |
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56.2 |
3 | Ida Németh |
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56.8 |
4th | Bärbel Mayer |
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57.7 |
5 | Lesley MacKinnon |
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58.2 |
6th | Gül Çıray |
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60.8 |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Ekaterina Parlyuk |
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55.4 |
2 | Vera Mukhanova |
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55.7 |
3 | Moyra Hiscox |
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55.7 |
4th | Maria Jeibmann |
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55.9 |
5 | Beata Żbikowska |
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57.2 |
6th | Jytte Kort |
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57.9 |
final
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Maria_Itkina_1964.jpg/150px-Maria_Itkina_1964.jpg)
Marija Itkina - after her success over 200 meters, first European champion over 400 meters
August 21, 1958, 6:25 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Marija Itkina |
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53.7 CR |
2 | Ekaterina Parlyuk |
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54.8 |
3 | Moyra Hiscox |
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55.7 |
4th | Shirley Pirie |
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55.7 |
5 | Vera Mukhanova |
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56.3 |
6th | Ida Németh |
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56.3 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed May 3, 2019
- Women 400m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 3, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 3, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 3, 2019
- 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 3, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed May 3, 2019