European Athletics Championships 1958 / men's hammer throw

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 19 (qualification) August 21 (final)
Medalist
gold	Tadeusz Rut ( POL )
silver	Mikhail Krivonosow ( URS )
bronze	Gyula Zsivótzky ( HUN )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1958 was held on August 19 and 21, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

European champion was Tadeusz Rut from Poland . He won ahead of the 1956 Soviet Olympic runner- up and defending champion Mikhail Krivonosow . The Hungarian Gyula Zsivótzky won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	68.68 m	Hal Connolly	Bakersfield , USA	June 20, 1958
European record	67.32 m	Mikhail Krivonosov	Tashkent , then Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan )	October 22, 1956
EM record	63.34 m		EM Bern , Switzerland	August 28, 1954

Record improvement

European champion Tadeusz Rut improved the existing championship record in the final on August 21st by 1.44 m to 64.78 m.  

qualification

August 19, 1958, 4.15 p.m.

The twenty participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 55.00 m. Only two throwers were eliminated. Eighteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), so that, as in almost all jumping and throwing disciplines, a large final field was created. The question arises as to why qualifications were set at all.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	62.71
2	Anatoly Samotsvetov	Soviet Union	60.42 SB
3	Heinrich Thun	Austria	60.11 SB
4th	Mikhail Krivonosov	Soviet Union	59.96
5	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	59.83
6th	József Csermák	Hungary	59.71
7th	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	59.48
8th	Nicolae Rascanescu	Romania	59.14 PB
9	Oddvar Krogh	Norway	58.33 PB
10	Krešimir Račić	Yugoslavia	58.22
11	Horst Niebisch	Germany	57.75
12	Zvonko Bezjak	Yugoslavia	57.52
13	Michael Ellis	Great Britain	57.26
14th	Vasil Krumov	Bulgaria	56.73
15th	Guy Husson	France	56.70
16	Birger Asplund	Sweden	56.55
17th	John Lawlor	Ireland	55.41
18th	Peter Allday	Great Britain	55.24 PB
19th	Silvano Giovanetti	Italy	54.45 PB
20th	Alfons Wiegand	Germany	54.18

final

European champion Tadeusz Rut

August 21, 1958, 5:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	64.78 CR / NO
2	Mikhail Krivonosov	Soviet Union	63.78 SB
3	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	63.68 NO
4th	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	63.37 SB
5	Zvonko Bezjak	Yugoslavia	62.39 SB
6th	Birger Asplund	Sweden	62.18 NO
7th	John Lawlor	Ireland	61.49 SB
8th	József Csermák	Hungary	61.00 PB
9	Michael Ellis	Great Britain	59.71 PB
10	Krešimir Račić	Yugoslavia	59.28 SB
11	Nicolae Rascanescu	Romania	58.53
12	Guy Husson	France	58.52 PB
13	Heinrich Thun	Austria	58.17
14th	Horst Niebisch	Germany	57.83 PB
15th	Vasil Krumov	Bulgaria	57.82 SB
16	Anatoly Samotsvetov	Soviet Union	57.00
17th	Oddvar Krogh	Norway	55.65
18th	Peter Allday	Great Britain	55.05

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  Zvonko Bezjak reached fifth place

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  Krešimir Račić, the eighteenth in 1954, was tenth

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  Horst Niebisch came in fourteen

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 1, 2019
• Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, men's hammer throw on sportschau.de, accessed on May 1, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed May 1, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Hammer Throw on rfea.es, p. 31 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 1, 2019