European Athletics Championships 1958 / men's javelin

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	19 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 23 (qualifying) August 24 (final)
Medalist
gold	Janusz Sidło ( POL )
silver	Egil Danielsen ( NOR )
bronze	Gergely Kulcsár ( HUN )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's javelin throw at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22 and 23, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the Polish defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 1956, Janusz Sidło . Second place went to the Norwegian world record holder and Olympic champion from 1956, Egil Danielsen . Bronze went to the Hungarian Gergely Kulcsár .

Records

Existing records

World record	85.71 m	Egil Danielsen	OS Melbourne , Australia	November 26, 1956
European record
Championship record	76.87 m	Matti Järvinen	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938

Record improvements

During the final on August 24th, European champion Janusz Sidło improved the existing EM record twice:  

• 79.45 m - 2nd attempt
• 80.18 m - 3rd attempt

qualification

August 23, 1958, 6.15 p.m.

The nineteen participants competed in a common qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 67.00 m. Fifteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), only five throwers were eliminated. As in almost all jumping and throwing competitions, the question arises under these circumstances, why a qualification was set at all.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Knut Fredriksson	Sweden	73.90 SB
2	Janusz Sidło	Poland	73.41
3	Hans Schenk	Germany	72.70
4th	Väinö Kuisma	Finland	71.76
5	Egil Danielsen	Norway	70.57
6th	Carlo Lievore	Italy	70.30 SB
7th	Giovanni Lievore	Italy	70.22
8th	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	69.95
9	Charles Vallman	Soviet Union	69.80 SB
10	Zbigniew Radziwonowicz	Poland	69.54
11	Alec Syrowatsky	France	69.48 PB
12	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	68.54
13	Michel Macquet	France	67.79
14th	Leif Hellgren	Sweden	67.40 PB
15th	Willy Rasmussen	Norway	67.35
16	Veikko Laine	Finland	66.58 SB
17th	Heinrich Will	Germany	65.36 SB
18th	Colin Smith	Great Britain	65.35 PB
19th	Guy Van Zeune	Belgium	59.43 PB

final

August 24, 1958, 4.15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Best width (m)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Janusz Sidło	Poland	80.18 CR	75.50	79.45 CR	78.03	80.18 CR	76.31	69.91
2	Egil Danielsen	Norway	78.27 SB	76.63	72.26	x	73.56	71.02	78.27 SB
3	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	75.26 SB	Test series not known
4th	Michel Macquet	France	75.18 SB	Trial series not known
5	Väinö Kuisma	Finland	74.90 SB
6th	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	73.89 SB
7th	Hans Schenk	Germany	73.43 SB
8th	Giovanni Lievore	Italy	73.38
9	Knut Fredriksson	Sweden	73.25
10	Zbigniew Radziwonowicz	Poland	71.20 PB
11	Carlo Lievore	Italy	68.88
12	Willy Rasmussen	Norway	68.63 SB
13	Charles Vallman	Soviet Union	67.26
14th	Leif Hellgren	Sweden	62.37
15th	Alec Syrowatsky	France	61.99

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  European champion Janusz Sidło, Olympic runner-up in 1956 , defended his title

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  Bronze medalist Gergely Kulcsár in 2013

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 1, 2019
• Men Javelin 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, javelin 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. Men javelin , accessed May 1, 2019