European Athletics Championships 1958 / Men's discus throw

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 20th (qualification) August 22nd (final)
Medalist
gold	Edmund Piątkowski ( POL )
silver	Todor Artarski ( BUL )
bronze	Vladimir Trussenjow ( URS )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's discus throw at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 22, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

European champion was Edmund Piątkowski from Poland . He won ahead of the Bulgarian Todor Artarski. Bronze went to the Soviet thrower Vladimir Trussenjow .

Records

Existing records

World record	59.28 m	Fortune Gordia	Pasadena , USA	August 22, 1953
European record	56.98 m	Adolfo Consolini	Bellinzona , Italy	December 11, 1955
Championship record	53.75 m		EM Brussels , Belgium	August 26, 1950

Record improvement

The existing EM record was improved twice in the final on August 22nd:

• 53.82 m - Todor Artarski, 3rd attempt
• 53.92 m - Edmund Piątkowski , 4th attempt 

qualification

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

The 21 participants took part in a joint qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 48.00 m. Sixteen athletes exceeded this mark and were therefore qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue). Only five throwers were eliminated and, as with almost all jumping and throwing disciplines, it remains unclear why a qualification was even scheduled.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	52.78
2	Kim Buchanzov	Soviet Union	50.82
3	József Szécsényi	Hungary	50.79
4th	Vladimir Trussenev	Soviet Union	50.70
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	50.28
6th	Lars Arvidson	Sweden	50.12 PB
7th	Pentti Repo	Finland	49.63
8th	Otto Koppenhöfer	Germany	49.17 PB
9	Cees cook	Netherlands	49.12
10	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	49.09
11	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	48.91
12	Dako Radosevic	Yugoslavia	48.80
13	Carol Lindroos	Finland	48.66
14th	Serge Grisoni	France	48.24 PB
15th	Gerry Carr	Great Britain	48.16
16	Fritz Kühl	Germany	48.02
17th	Östen Edlund	Sweden	47.52 PB
18th	Stein Haugen	Norway	46.98 SB
19th	Eugeniusz Wachowski	Poland	46.96 PB
20th	Pierre Alard	France	45.94 SB
21st	Hallgrímur Jónsson	Iceland	45.46 PB

final

August 22, 1958, 4:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	52.90	x	50.22	53.92 CR	53.36	x	53.92 CR
2	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	52.52	51.10	53.82 CR	x	51.64	x	53.82 PB
3	Vladimir Trussenev	Soviet Union	50.54	52.38	50.00	50.89	53.06	53.74	53.74 SB
4th	Kim Buchanzov	Soviet Union	Trial series not known						53.44 SB
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary							53.08 PB
6th	Adolfo Consolini	Italy							53.05 SB
7th	Carol Lindroos	Finland							51.95 SB
8th	József Szécsényi	Hungary							51.43 SB
9	Pentti Repo	Finland							51.09 SB
10	Cees cook	Netherlands							50.97 SB
11	Gerry Carr	Great Britain							50.31 PB
12	Dako Radosevic	Yugoslavia							50.00 SB
13	Fritz Kühl	Germany							49.44 SB
14th	Lars Arvidson	Sweden							49.27
15th	Otto Koppenhöfer	Germany							48.42
16	Serge Grisoni	France							47.13

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  The defending champion and three-time European champion Adolfo Consolini came in sixth this time

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  Tenth place for Cees Koch

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  Fritz Kühl was thirteenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 1, 2019
• Men Discus Throw European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed on May 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 1, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed May 1, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Discus Throw on rfea.es, p. 29 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 1, 2019