European Athletics Championships 1958/400 m women

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400-meter run for women
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	12 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 21st (final)
Medalists
gold	Marija Itkina ( URS )
silver	Ekaterina Parlyuk ( URS )
bronze	Molly Hiscox ( GBR )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The women's 400-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 21, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. The competition was on the program of an international championship for the first time. Only twelve participants started.

The runners from the Soviet Union achieved a double success. Marija Itkina became European champion . She won ahead of Ekaterina Parlyuk. Bronze went to the Briton Molly Hiscox.

Records

Existing records

World record	53.6 s	Marija Itkina	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 6, 1957
European record
Championship record	The competition was on the program of European championships for the first time.

Record improvement

• The later winner Marija Itkina set her first EM record in the first run on August 19 with 54.0 seconds. 
• In the final on August 21, she improved this record to 53.7 seconds.

Preliminary round

August 19, 1958, 4 p.m.

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

Forward 1

Bärbel Mayer, later Bärbel Reinnagel, retired after fourth place in the first heat

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	54.0 CR
2	Shirley Pirie	Great Britain	56.2
3	Ida Németh	Hungary	56.8
4th	Bärbel Mayer	Germany	57.7
5	Lesley MacKinnon	Great Britain	58.2
6th	Gül Çıray	Turkey	60.8

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekaterina Parlyuk	Soviet Union	55.4
2	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	55.7
3	Moyra Hiscox	Great Britain	55.7
4th	Maria Jeibmann	Germany	55.9
5	Beata Żbikowska	Poland	57.2
6th	Jytte Kort	Denmark	57.9

final

Marija Itkina - after her success over 200 meters, first European champion over 400 meters

August 21, 1958, 6:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	53.7 CR
2	Ekaterina Parlyuk	Soviet Union	54.8
3	Moyra Hiscox	Great Britain	55.7
4th	Shirley Pirie	Great Britain	55.7
5	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	56.3
6th	Ida Németh	Hungary	56.3

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed May 3, 2019
• Women 400m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 3, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 3, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 3, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 3, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed May 3, 2019