1958 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Stockholm
place	Round trip through Stockholm
Attendees	25 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 24, 1958
Medalist
gold	Sergei Popov ( URS )
silver	Ivan Ilyich Filin ( URS )
bronze	Frederick Norris ( GBR )

View of Stockholm's old town ( Gamla stan )
with the tower of the German church

The men's marathon at the 1958 European Athletics Championships took place on August 24, 1958 in the Swedish capital Stockholm .

The Soviet runner Sergei Popow won the race with a new world record in 2: 15: 17.0 hours. Vice European champion was his compatriot Iwan Ilyich Filin ahead of the Briton Frederick Norris .

The two German athletics associations appeared as a team at these European championships. In elimination competitions, Lothar Beckert from the GDR and Jürgen Wedeking from the Federal Republic of Germany qualified for participation in the European Championship .

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	Jim Peters	2: 17: 39.4 h	Chiswick , UK	June 26, 1954
European best time
Championship record	Veikko Karvonen	2: 24: 51.6 h	EM in Bern , Sweden	August 25, 1954

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Record improvement

With his time of 2: 15: 17.0 h, Sergei Popow improved as the new European champion Veikko Karvonen's European championship record by 9: 34.6 minutes.

Result

The Finnish defending champion Veikko Karvonen finished sixth this time

The Belgian Aurèle Vandendriessche - in the two following championship fights in 1962 and 1966, each runner-up - finished eleventh

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Sergei Popov	Soviet Union	2: 15: 17.0 WBL
	Ivan Ilyich Filin	Soviet Union	2: 20: 50.6 PB
	Frederick Norris	Great Britain	2: 21: 15.0 PB
04th	Peter Wilkinson	Great Britain	2: 21: 40.0 PB
05	Lothar Beckert	Germany	2: 22: 11.2 PB
06th	Veikko Karvonen	Finland	2: 22: 45.8 PB
07th	Arnold Waide	Sweden	2: 25: 54.2 PB
08th	Edoardo Righi	Italy	2: 26: 52.0 PB
09	Jürgen Wedeking	Germany	2: 27: 57.0 PB
10	Eino Pulkkinen	Finland	2: 28: 35.4 PB
11	Aurèle Vandendriessche	Belgium	2: 30: 26.0 SB
12	Thomas Nilsson	Sweden	2: 31: 04.2 PB
13	Vito di Terlizzi	Italy	2: 31: 09.0 PB
14th	José Araujo	Portugal	2: 31: 18.4 SB
15th	Franjo Škrinjar	Yugoslavia	2: 32: 50.6 PB
16	Adolf Gruber	Austria	2: 34: 09.8 PB
17th	Paul Genève	France	2: 35: 20.4 PB
18th	Victor Olsen	Norway	2: 35: 50.0 SB
19th	Artur Wittwer	Switzerland	2: 36: 13.8 PB
20th	Miguel Navarro	Spain	2: 38: 10.0 PB
21st	Cornelius Bleeker	Netherlands	2: 38: 45.6 PB
22nd	Arthur Hansen	Denmark	2: 41: 57.2 PB
	Franjo Mihalic	Yugoslavia	DNF
	Alain Mimoun	France
	Finn Systad	Norway

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  Franjo Mihalić, Yugoslavia - race not finished

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  The 1956 Olympic champion Alain Mimoun did not finish this time

Web links and sources

• Men Marathon European Championships 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed February 28, 2019
• European Marathon Championships at marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed February 28, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed February 28, 2019