European Athletics Championships 1958/4 × 100 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of men
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase	August 23rd (preliminary) August 24th (final)
Medalist
gold	Germany
silver	Great Britain
bronze	Soviet Union

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 4-by-100-meter relay at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23 and 24, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

Germany became European champions with the line-up of Walter Mahlendorf , Armin Hary , Heinz Fütterer and Manfred Germar . Second place went to Great Britain with Peter Radford , Roy Sandstrom , David Segal and Adrian Breacker . Bronze went to the Soviet Union ( Boris Tokarew , Edwin Osolin , Juri Konowalow , Leonid Bartenew ).

Records

Existing records

World record	39.5 s	USA ( Ira Murchison , Leamon King , Thane Baker , Bobby Morrow )	OS Melbourne , Australia	1st December 1956
European record	39.8 s	Soviet Union ( Leonid Bartenew , Boris Tokarew , Yuri Konovalov , Vladimir Sukharev )
EM record	40.6 s	Hungary ( László Zarándi , Géza Varasdi , György Csányi , Béla Goldoványi )	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 29, 1954

Record improvements

The existing European Championship record was improved by four tenths of a second in the final on August 24th by the German European championship relay:
40.2 s - Germany ( Walter Mahlendorf , Armin Hary , Heinz Fütterer , Manfred Germar ) - final, August 24th  

Preliminary round

August 23, 1958, 5:50 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Great Britain	Peter Radford Roy Sandstrom David Segal Adrian Breacker	40.9
2	Soviet Union	Boris Tokarew Edwin Osolin Yuri Konovalov Leonid Bartenew	41.1
3	France	Bernard Cahen Joël Caprice Constantin Lissenko Jocelyn Delecour	41.3
4th	Poland	Zenon Baranowski Marian Foik Andrzej Zieliński Edward Szmidt	41.3
5	Switzerland	Emil Weber Erwin Müller Hans Wehrli-Frei René Weber	42.0

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Italy	Pier Giorgio Cazzola Sergio D'Asnasch Livio Berruti Giorgio Mazza	40.9
2	Germany	Walter Mahlendorf Armin Hary Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar	41.0
3	Czechoslovakia	Vaclav Janecek Frantisek Mikluscak Vilem Mandlik Vaclav Kynos	41.1
DNF	Sweden	Per-Ove Trollsås Björn Malmroos Sven-Olof Westlund Sven-Åke Löfgren
DSQ	Hungary	György Gyuricza Béla Tóth Sándor Jakabfy Béla Goldoványi

final

August 24, 1958, 3:55 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Germany	Walter Mahlendorf Armin Hary Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar	40.2 CR
2	Great Britain	Peter Radford Roy Sandstrom David Segal Adrian Breacker	40.4 NO
3	Soviet Union	Boris Tokarew Edwin Osolin Yuri Konovalov Leonid Bartenew	40.4
4th	Czechoslovakia	Vaclav Janecek Frantisek Mikluscak Vilem Mandlik Vaclav Kynos	40.7
5	France	Bernard Cahen Joël Caprice Constantin Lissenko Jocelyn Delecour	41.0
	Italy	Pier Giorgio Cazzola Sergio D'Asnasch Livio Berruti Giorgio Mazza	DQ

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 25, 2019
• Men 4x100m Relay 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, 4 × 100 m 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. 4 × 100 m , accessed April 25, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 100 m at rfea.es, p. 35 (PDF), accessed on April 25, 2019