European Athletics Championships 1958/800 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 800-meter run
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 20th (semi-finals) August 21st (final)
Medalist
gold	Michael Rawson ( GBR )
silver	Audun Boysen ( NOR )
bronze	Paul Schmidt ( GER )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 800-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held from August 19 to 21, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The British Michael Rawson became European champion . He won Audun Boysen before the Norwegian European Championship third in 1954 . Bronze went to the German runner Paul Schmidt .

Existing records

World record	1: 45.7 min	Roger Moens	Oslo , Norway	3rd August 1955
European record
Championship record	1: 47.1 min	Lajos Szentgáli	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 28, 1954

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

Preliminary round

August 19, 1958, 4:40 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Derek Johnson	Great Britain	1: 49.5
2	Lajos Szentgáli	Hungary	1: 50.0
3	Svavar Markússon	Iceland	1: 50.5 PB
4th	Hendrik house	Netherlands	1: 51.0 PB
5	Cesareo Marín	Spain	1: 52.8 PB
DNS	Roger Moens	Belgium

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Michael Rawson	Great Britain	1: 50.4
2	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	1: 50.7
3	Olavi saloons	Finland	1: 50.7 PB
4th	Zbigniew Makomaski	Poland	1: 51.2
5	Gérard Vervoort	Belgium	1: 51.6 PB
6th	Hendrik Heida	Netherlands	1: 52.3 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Herbert Missalla	Germany	1: 50.0
2	Audun Boysen	Norway	1: 50.5
3	Christian Wägli	Switzerland	1: 50.6
4th	Tadeusz Kaźmierski	Poland	1: 50.8
5	Dimitrios Konstantinidis	Greece	1: 50.9 PB
6th	Rudolf Klaban	Austria	1: 51.3 PB

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paul Schmidt	Germany	1: 51.4
2	Gianfranco Baraldi	Italy	1: 51.8
3	Lajos Kovács	Hungary	1: 52.0
4th	Rolf Gottfridsson	Sweden	1: 52.0 SB
5	Čeněk Hanka	Czechoslovakia	1: 52.1 PB
6th	Robert Misplon	France	1: 54.3 PB

Semifinals

August 20, 1958, 5:15 p.m.

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

Run 1

Olavi Salonen ( left ) - in his world record run over 1500 meters - was eliminated in sixth place in the first semi-final run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Derek Johnson	Great Britain	1: 48.8 SB
2	Christian Wägli	Switzerland	1: 49.0 SB
3	Zbigniew Makomaski	Poland	1: 49.1
4th	Herbert Missalla	Germany	1: 49.2
5	Lajos Kovács	Hungary	1: 49.2
6th	Olavi saloons	Finland	1: 51.8
7th	Svavar Markússon	Iceland	1: 54.6
8th	Hendrik house	Netherlands	1: 59.0

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paul Schmidt	Germany	1: 49.5
2	Lajos Szentgáli	Hungary	1: 49.8
3	Audun Boysen	Norway	1: 49.9
4th	Michael Rawson	Great Britain	1: 50.1
5	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	1: 50.3 PB
6th	Gianfranco Baraldi	Italy	1: 51.2 PB
7th	Rolf Gottfridsson	Sweden	1: 52.1
DSQ	Tadeusz Kaźmierski	Poland

final

Audun Boysen - after the EM bronze in 1954, now Vice European Champion

August 21, 1958, 6.45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Michael Rawson	Great Britain	1: 47.8
2	Audun Boysen	Norway	1: 47.9 SB
3	Paul Schmidt	Germany	1: 47.9 SB
4th	Zbigniew Makomaski	Poland	1: 48.0
5	Lajos Szentgáli	Hungary	1: 48.3 SB
6th	Herbert Missalla	Germany	1: 48.5
7th	Derek Johnson	Great Britain	1: 49.2
8th	Christian Wägli	Switzerland	1: 52.0

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 23, 2019
• Men 800m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 23, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 800 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 23, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed April 23, 2019