European Athletics Championships 1958/400 m hurdles of men
6th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 400-meter hurdles |
city |
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Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Attendees | 19 athletes from 11 countries |
Competition phase | August 20th (preliminary) August 21st (semi-finals) August 22nd (final) |
Medalist | |
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Yuri Litujew ( URS )
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Per-Owe Trollsås ( SWE )
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Bruno Galliker ( SUI )
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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 |
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Budapest , Hungary | August 6, 1958 |
European record | 50.4 s |
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Budapest , Hungary | 20th September 1953 |
Tashkent , then Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan ) | October 14, 1956 | |||
Championship record | 50.5 s |
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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) |
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1 | Sven-Oswald Mildh |
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52.7 |
2 | Hans Dittner |
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53.0 |
3 | Chris Goudge |
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53.1 |
4th | Germano Gimelli |
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53.3 |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Anatoly Julin |
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52.5 |
2 | Per-Owe Trollsås |
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52.8 |
3 | Janusz Kotliński |
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53.4 |
4th | Ioannis Kambadelis |
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53.6 |
5 | Jussi Rintamäki |
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54.5 |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Ilie Savel |
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52.2 |
2 | Moreno Martini |
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52.6 |
3 | Yuri Lituev |
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53.0 |
4th | Jan Erik Guldbrandsen |
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53.6 |
5 | Emil Weber |
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54.8 |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Helmut Janz |
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52.1 |
2 | Tom Farrell |
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52.5 |
3 | Bruno Galliker |
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53.0 |
4th | Kai Sjøberg |
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53.2 |
5 | Hans Lindgren |
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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
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Yuri Lituev |
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51.0 |
2 | Bruno Galliker |
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51.8 NO |
3 | Chris Goudge |
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52.0 |
4th | Helmut Janz |
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52.5 |
5 | Janusz Kotliński |
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53.2 |
6th | Moreno Martini |
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53.7 |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Per-Owe Trollsås |
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51.0 NO |
2 | Anatoly Julin |
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51.3 |
3 | Tom Farrell |
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51.8 |
4th | Sven-Oswald Mildh |
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51.8 |
5 | Hans Dittner |
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53.3 |
DSQ | Ilie Savel |
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final
August 22, 1958, 4:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Yuri Lituev |
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51.1 |
2 | Per-Owe Trollsås |
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51.6 |
3 | Bruno Galliker |
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51.8 NO |
4th | Tom Farrell |
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52.0 |
5 | Anatoly Julin |
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52.3 |
6th | Chris Goudge |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400m hurdles men , accessed on April 25, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on April 25, 2019 (French / English)