European Athletics Championships 1958/100 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 19 (preliminary) August 20 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Armin Hary ( GER )
silver	Manfred Germar ( GER )
bronze	Peter Radford ( GBR )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 100-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 20, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

In this competition there was a double victory for the German sprinters. Armin Hary was European champion ahead of Manfred Germar . Bronze went to the Briton Peter Radford .

Records

Existing records

World record	10.1 s	Willie Williams	Berlin , then FR Germany (now Germany )	3rd August 1956
		Ira Murchison	Berlin , then FR Germany (now Germany )	4th August 1956
		Leamon King	Ontario , Canada	October 20, 1956
			Santa Ana , USA	October 27, 1956
European record	10.2 s	McDonald Bailey	Belgrade , then Yugoslavia (now Serbia )	August 25, 1951
		Heinz Fütterer	Yokohama , Japan	October 31, 1954
		Manfred Germar	Cologne , then FR Germany (now Germany )	July 31, 1957
			Budapest , Hungary	October 12, 1957
		Heinz Fütterer	Hanover , then BR Germany (now Germany )	July 20, 1958
		Armin Hary	Hanover , then BR Germany (now Germany )	July 20, 1958
		Manfred Germar	Hanover , then BR Germany (now Germany )	July 20, 1958
		Armin Hary	Hanover , then BR Germany (now Germany )	July 20, 1958
Championship record	10.4 s	Orazio Mariani	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938
		Wil van Beveren

Record settings / improvements

Officially, the hand-stopped times applied at that time. After that, the EM record of 10.4 s was set four times at these European championships:

•  Jocelyn Delecour - advance, August 19th
•  Armin Hary - Final, August 20th
•  Manfred Germar - Final, August 20
•  Peter Radford - Final, August 20th

The winning time of the European champion Armin Hary from the final, electronically stopped with 10.35 s, is unofficial as a new championship record.

Preliminary round

August 19, 1958, 3:10 p.m. and 5:40 p.m.

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

Forward 1

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Germar	Germany	10.9
2	Livio Berruti	Italy	10.9
3	Sven-Olof Westlund	Sweden	11.0
4th	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	11.1
5	Hans Wehrli-Frei	Switzerland	11.4

Forward 2

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bjørn Nilsen	Norway	10.8
2	Heinz Müller	Switzerland	10.8
3	Roy Sandstrom	Great Britain	10.8
4th	Jacques Vercruysse	Belgium	10.9
5	Edward Szmidt	Poland	11.0

Forward 3

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.6
2	Marian Foik	Poland	10.8
3	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	11.0
4th	Václav Janeček	Czechoslovakia	11.1
5	Aydin Onur	Turkey	11.3

Forward 4

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.4 CRe
2	Bjorn Malmroos	Sweden	10.8
3	Salvatore Giannone	Italy	10.8
4th	Sándor Jakabfy	Hungary	10.9
5	Richard Schwarzgruber	Austria	11.1

Livio Berruti (here in 2011) , two years later Olympic champion over 200 meters , was eliminated in fourth in his semi-final run

Forward 5

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leonid Bartenew	Soviet Union	11.0
2	Béla Goldoványi	Hungary	11.1
3	Jan Stesso	Czechoslovakia	11.2
4th	Hilmar Þorbjörnsson	Iceland	11.3
5	Peter Rasmussen	Denmark	11.3

Forward 6

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Armin Hary	Germany	10.7
2	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.7
3	Constantin Lissenko	France	10.9
4th	Adolf Huber	Austria	11.0

Semifinals

August 20, 1958, 3 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.5
2	Marian Foik	Poland	10.7
3	Bjørn Nilsen	Norway	10.8
4th	Livio Berruti	Italy	10.8
5	Heinz Müller	Switzerland	10.9
6th	Sven-Olof Westlund	Sweden	11.0

Run 2

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.5
2	Armin Hary	Germany	10.6
3	Constantin Lissenko	France	10.8
4th	Leonid Bartenew	Soviet Union	10.8
5	Jan Stesso	Czechoslovakia	11.1
6th	Salvatore Giannone	Italy	11.1

Run 3

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Germar	Germany	10.5
2	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.6
3	Roy Sandstrom	Great Britain	10.7
4th	Béla Goldoványi	Hungary	10.7
5	Bjorn Malmroos	Sweden	10.8
6th	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	10.8

Surprisingly, Armin Hary was - here in 1960 - European sprint champion

final

August 20, 1958, 6.45 p.m.

Wind: +1.5 m / s

Officially, the hand-stopped value of 10.4 s entered the list of results for the winner Armin Hary. With this, Hary set the European championship record from 1938 held by Italian Orazio Mariani and Dutchman Wil van Beveren , as did the second and third placed Manfred Germar and Peter Radford. Hary's winning time from the final, electronically stopped with 10.35 s, is unofficial as a new championship record.

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s)	Electron. Time (s)
1	Armin Hary	Germany	10.4 CRe	10.35 CR
2	Manfred Germar	Germany	10.4 CRe
3	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4 CRe
4th	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.5
5	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.7
6th	Marian Foik	Poland	10.9

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  Manfred Germar ( right ) - considered the real favorite before the race - became vice European champion and won the 200-meter run three days later

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  Jocelyn Delecour, who set the EM record in the run-up , came fourth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 22, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 22, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed April 21, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , p. 6 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on April 21, 2019 (French / English)