European Athletics Championships 1958/3000 m obstacle men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course for men
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 20th (preliminary) August 22nd (final)
Medalist
gold	Jerzy Chromik ( POL )
silver	Semyon Rschishchin ( URS )
bronze	Hans Hüneke ( GER )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 3000-meter obstacle course at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 22, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the Polish world record holder Jerzy Chromik . He won ahead of Semyon Rschishchin from the USSR. Bronze went to the German runner Hans Hüneke .

Records

Existing records

World record	8: 32.0 min	Jerzy Chromik	Warsaw , Poland	2nd August 1958
European record
Championship record	8: 49.6 min	Sándor Rozsnyói	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 28, 1954

Record improvements

The existing EM record was improved by three athletes in two runs at these European championships:

• 8: 47.6 min, 1st lead-in, August 20:
  • Semjon Rschishchin (winner in the 1st heat)
  • Vlastimil Brlica (second in the 1st heat)
• 8: 38.2 min, final, August 22nd:
  •  Jerzy Chromik (winner of the final)

Preliminary round

August 20, 1958, 3:10 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Semyon Rshishchin	Soviet Union	8: 47.6 CR
2	Vlastimil Brlica	Czechoslovakia	8: 47.6 CR
3	Jerzy Chromik	Poland	8: 49.2
4th	Hans Hüneke	Germany	8: 50.6
5	Olavi Rinteenpää	Finland	8: 53.0
6th	Reidar Næss	Norway	8: 53.6 PB
7th	Manuel Alonso	Spain	8: 56.2 NO
8th	Hedwig Leenaert	Belgium	9: 09.6 PB
9	Eric Shirley	Great Britain	9: 17.2 SB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Georgios Papavasiliou	Greece	8: 55.4
2	Sergei Ponomarev	Soviet Union	8: 56.2
3	Gyula Varga	Hungary	8: 59.8
4th	Hermann Buhl	Germany	9: 01.8 SB
5	Lars Helander	Sweden	9: 04.8
6th	Bohumír Zháňal	Czechoslovakia	9: 09.4 SB
7th	Walter Kammermann	Switzerland	9: 17.2 PB

final

Hermann Buhl ( on the right as the leader and later winner of the GDR championships in 1958 ) took eleventh place

August 22, 1958, 5:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jerzy Chromik	Poland	8: 38.2 CR
2	Semyon Rshishchin	Soviet Union	8: 38.8
3	Hans Hüneke	Germany	8: 43.6
4th	Sergei Ponomarev	Soviet Union	8: 44.0
5	Vlastimil Brlica	Czechoslovakia	8: 46.6
6th	Gyula Varga	Hungary	8: 48.4
7th	Lars Helander	Sweden	8: 50.2 PB
8th	Georgios Papavasiliou	Greece	8: 51.2 NO
9	Olavi Rinteenpää	Finland	8: 52.6 SB
10	Reidar Næss	Norway	8: 54.6
11	Hermann Buhl	Germany	9: 03.0
12	Bohumír Zháňal	Czechoslovakia	9: 24.4

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 25, 2019
• Men 3000m Steeplechase European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 3000 m obstacle men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 25, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 3000 m obstacle men , accessed on April 25, 2019