European Athletics Championships 1958/1500 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	33 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd (preliminary) August 24th (final)
Medalist
gold	Brian Hewson ( GBR )
silver	Dan Waern ( SWE )
bronze	Ron Delany ( IRL )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 1500 meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22 and 24, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

British Brian Hewson became European champion . Second place went to the Swede Dan Waern . 1956 Irish Olympic Champion Ron Delany won bronze.

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 38.1 min	Stanislav Jungwirth	Stará Boleslav , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	July 12, 1957
European record
EM record	3: 43.8 min	Roger Bannister	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 29, 1954

Record improvement

On August 22nd, Olavi Vuorisalo improved the EM record in the first run by three seconds to 3: 40.8 minutes. In the finale, which was run more slowly, he finished fifth two days later.  

Preliminary round

August 22, 1958, 5.45 p.m.

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

As seventh of his preliminary run, Simo Vazič did not reach the final

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olavi Vuorisalo	Finland	3: 40.8 CR
2	Brian Hewson	Great Britain	3: 41.1 NO
3	István Rózsavölgyi	Hungary	3: 41.5 SB
4th	Arne Hamarsland	Norway	3: 41.9 NO
5	Gianfranco Baraldi	Italy	3: 42.3 NO
6th	Roger hate	Netherlands	3: 43.0 NO
7th	Simo Vazič	Yugoslavia	3: 45.7 SB
8th	Rudolf Klaban	Austria	3: 48.2 SB
9	Cesareo Marín	Spain	3: 53.4 PB

Forward 2

The Olympic runner-up in 1956, Klaus Richtzenhain, was eliminated in fifth place in the second run

Sixth place in the second heat gave the EM -Vierten of 1954 not Ingvar Ericsson to participate in the finals

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ron Delany	Ireland	3: 47.0
2	Olavi Salsola	Finland	3: 47.5 SB
3	Ulf-Bertil Lundh	Norway	3: 47.8
4th	Joško Murat	Yugoslavia	3: 48.2 PB
5	Klaus Richtzenhain	Germany	3: 49.0 SB
6th	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3: 49.1 SB
7th	Alfred Langenus	Belgium	3: 52.5 SB
8th	Ernst Kleiner	Switzerland	3: 53.7 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dan Waern	Sweden	3: 42.3
2	Siegfried Herrmann	Germany	3: 42.5 SB
3	Lajos Kovács	Hungary	3: 43.0
4th	Stefan Lewandowski	Poland	3: 43.2 SB
5	Tomás Barris	Spain	3: 44.5 NO
6th	Michael Blagrove	Great Britain	3: 45.2 PB
7th	Alfredo Rizzo	Italy	3: 50.5 PB
8th	André Guilhaumon	France	3: 50.6 PB

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Stanislav Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	3: 49.0
2	Zbigniew Orywał	Poland	3: 49.3
3	Michel Jazy	France	3: 49.5
4th	Piatras-Ionas pipine	Soviet Union	3: 49.6 PB
5	Mijndert Blankenstein	Netherlands	3: 50.2 PB
6th	Dimitrios Konstantinidis	Greece	3: 50.5 PB
7th	Svavar Markússon	Sweden	3: 51.4 PB
8th	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	3: 52.6 SB

final

European champion Brian Hewson as a spectator at a greyhound race

August 24, 1958, 3:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Brian Hewson	Great Britain	3: 41.9
2	Dan Waern	Sweden	3: 42.1 SB
3	Ron Delany	Ireland	3: 42.3 SB
4th	István Rózsavölgyi	Hungary	3: 42.7
5	Olavi Vuorisalo	Finland	3: 42.8
6th	Siegfried Herrmann	Germany	3: 43.4
7th	Zbigniew Orywał	Poland	3: 43.7
8th	Stanislav Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	3: 44.4 SB
9	Ulf-Bertil Lundh	Norway	3: 44.7
10	Michel Jazy	France	3: 45.4 SB
11	Lajos Kovács	Hungary	3: 51.6
12	Olavi Salsola	Finland	3: 53.9

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  Vice European Champion Dan Waern

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  After his Olympic gold medal in 1956 , Ron Delany won EM bronze

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  Ex-world record holder István Rózsavölgyi came in fourth

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  Siegfried Herrmann came in sixth

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  Michel Jazy began his later very successful career with a tenth place at these European championships

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  Olavi Salsola ( right ) - here in second place in the world record run by his compatriot Olavi Salonen - achieved twelfth place in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 23, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 23, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 23, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed April 23, 2019