European Athletics Championships 1958/200 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd (preliminary / semi-finals) August 23rd (final)
Medalist
gold	Manfred Germar ( GER )
silver	David Segal ( GBR )
bronze	Jocelyn Delecour ( FRA )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 200-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22 and 23, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The German sprinter Manfred Germar became European champion . The British David Segal came in second . The French Jocelyn Delecour won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	20.6 s	Andy Stanfield	Los Angeles , USA	June 28, 1952
		Thane Baker	Bakersfield , USA	June 23, 1956
		Bobby Morrow	Olympic Games Melbourne , Australia	November 27, 1956
European record	20.8 s	Heinz Fütterer	Osaka , Japan	October 16, 1954
			Yokohama , Japan	October 31, 1954
		Manfred Germar	Hanover , then BR Germany (now Germany )	September 15, 1957
Championship record	20.9 s	Heinz Fütterer	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 29, 1954

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 22, 1958, 3 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: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leonid Bartenew	Soviet Union	21.7
2	Ernst Vogel	Switzerland	22.2
3	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	22.5
4th	Aydin Onur	Turkey	22.6
5	Edmund Castle	Germany	23.2

Forward 2

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	György Gyuricza	Hungary	22.4
2	Habib Thiam	France	23.0
3	Adolf Huber	Austria	24.9
DNS	Marian Foik	Poland

Forward 3

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	21.6
2	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	21.7
3	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	21.9
4th	Richard Schwarzgruber	Austria	22.4

Forward 4

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Germar	Germany	21.4
2	Edward Szmidt	Poland	21.9
3	Robbie Brightwell	Great Britain	21.9
4th	Jacques Vercruysse	Belgium	22.0
5	Börje beach	Finland	22.0

In contrast to the 100-meter run , Björn Malmroos did not reach the semi-finals with fourth place in his preliminary run

Forward 5

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jocelyn Delecour	France	22.2
2	Béla Goldoványi	Hungary	22.2
3	Vasilios Syllis	Greece	23.1
DNS	Faria	Portugal
	Weber	Switzerland

Forward 6

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Segal	Great Britain	21.0
2	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.6
3	Bjørn Nilsen	Norway	21.6
4th	Bjorn Malmroos	Sweden	21.8
5	Peter Rasmussen	Denmark	22.2

Semifinals

August 22, 1958, 4:50 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.3
2	Robbie Brightwell	Great Britain	21.7
3	Leonid Bartenew	Soviet Union	21.7
4th	Edward Szmidt	Poland	21.9
5	György Gyuricza	Hungary	22.4
6th	Ernst Vogel	Switzerland	22.4

Livio Berruti, two years later Olympic champion over 200 meters , did not finish here in his semi-finals

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	21.0
2	David Segal	Great Britain	21.1
3	Béla Goldoványi	Hungary	21.7
4th	Habib Thiam	France	22.3
5	Vasilios Syllis	Greece	22.4
DNF	Livio Berruti	Italy

Run 3

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Germar	Germany	21.2
2	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	21.3
3	Bjørn Nilsen	Norway	21.5
4th	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	21.7
5	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	22.2
6th	Adolf Huber	Switzerland	22.8

After his somewhat disappointed second place over 100 meters , Manfred Germar ( right ) became European champion over 200 meters

final

August 23, 1958, 4 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Germar	Germany	21.0
2	David Segal	Great Britain	21.3
3	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.3
4th	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	21.4
5	Robbie Brightwell	Great Britain	21.9
6th	Yuri Konovalov	Soviet Union	22.0

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  Jocelyn Delecour has now won bronze after finishing fourth over 100 meters

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  Yuri Konovalov - sixth over 200 meters / fifth over 100 meters

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 22, 2019
• Men 200m 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, 200 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. 200m men , accessed April 22, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , p. 8 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on April 21, 2019 (French / English)