European Athletics Championships 1958/400 m hurdles of men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter hurdles
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	19 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 20th (preliminary) August 21st (semi-finals) August 22nd (final)
Medalist
gold	Yuri Litujew ( URS )
silver	Per-Owe Trollsås ( SWE )
bronze	Bruno Galliker ( SUI )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held from August 20-22, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the Soviet European record holder Yuri Litujew . He won before the Swede Per-Owe Trollsås. Bronze went to the Swiss Bruno Galliker .

Existing records

World record	49.2 s	Glenn Davis	Budapest , Hungary	August 6, 1958
European record	50.4 s	Yuri Lituev	Budapest , Hungary	20th September 1953
			Tashkent , then Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan )	October 14, 1956
Championship record	50.5 s	Anatoly Julin	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 29, 1954

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

Preliminary round

August 20, 1958, 11.30 a.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sven-Oswald Mildh	Sweden	52.7
2	Hans Dittner	Germany	53.0
3	Chris Goudge	Great Britain	53.1
4th	Germano Gimelli	Italy	53.3

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anatoly Julin	Soviet Union	52.5
2	Per-Owe Trollsås	Sweden	52.8
3	Janusz Kotliński	Poland	53.4
4th	Ioannis Kambadelis	Greece	53.6
5	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	54.5

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ilie Savel	Romania	52.2
2	Moreno Martini	Italy	52.6
3	Yuri Lituev	Soviet Union	53.0
4th	Jan Erik Guldbrandsen	Norway	53.6
5	Emil Weber	Switzerland	54.8

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Helmut Janz	Germany	52.1
2	Tom Farrell	Great Britain	52.5
3	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	53.0
4th	Kai Sjøberg	Norway	53.2
5	Hans Lindgren	Sweden	53.6

Semifinals

August 21, 1958, 3:50 p.m.

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

Run 1

In fifth place in the second semi-final, Hans Dittner did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yuri Lituev	Soviet Union	51.0
2	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.8 NO
3	Chris Goudge	Great Britain	52.0
4th	Helmut Janz	Germany	52.5
5	Janusz Kotliński	Poland	53.2
6th	Moreno Martini	Italy	53.7

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Per-Owe Trollsås	Sweden	51.0 NO
2	Anatoly Julin	Soviet Union	51.3
3	Tom Farrell	Great Britain	51.8
4th	Sven-Oswald Mildh	Sweden	51.8
5	Hans Dittner	Germany	53.3
DSQ	Ilie Savel	Romania

final

Vice European champion Per-Owe Trollsås set a new Swedish national record in the semi-finals

August 22, 1958, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yuri Lituev	Soviet Union	51.1
2	Per-Owe Trollsås	Sweden	51.6
3	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.8 NO
4th	Tom Farrell	Great Britain	52.0
5	Anatoly Julin	Soviet Union	52.3
6th	Chris Goudge	Great Britain	53.6

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 25, 2019
• Men 400m Hurdles 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, 400 m hurdles 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. 400m hurdles men , accessed on April 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on April 25, 2019 (French / English)