1958 European Athletics Championships

6th European Athletics Championships
6th European Athletics Championships
Dates	19 – 24 August
Host city	Stockholm, Sweden
Venue	Stockholms Olympiastadion
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	36
Participation	626 athletes from ; 26 nations
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The 6th European Athletics Championships were held from 19–24 August 1958 in the Olympic Stadium of Stockholm, Sweden. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Armin Hary (FRG)	10.3 CR	Manfred Germar (FRG)	10.4	Peter Radford (GBR)	10.4
200 metres details	Manfred Germar (FRG)	21.0	David Segal (GBR)	21.3	Jocelyn Delecour (FRA)	21.3
400 metres details	John Wrighton (GBR)	46.3 CR	John Salisbury (GBR)	46.5	Karl-Friedrich Haas (FRG)	47.0
800 metres details	Mike Rawson (GBR)	1:47.8	Audun Boysen (NOR)	1:47.9	Paul Schmidt (FRG)	1:47.9
1500 metres details	Brian Hewson (GBR)	3:41.9 CR	Dan Waern (SWE)	3:42.1	Ron Delany (IRL)	3:42.3
5000 metres details	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL)	13:53.4 CR	Kazimierz Zimny (POL)	13:55.2	Gordon Pirie (GBR)	14:01.6
10,000 metres details	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL)	28:56.0 CR	Yevgeni Zhukov (URS)	28:58.6	Nikolay Pudov (URS)	29:02.2
110 metres hurdles details	Martin Lauer (FRG)	13.7 CR	Stanko Lorger (YUG)	14.1	Anatoly Mikhailov (URS)	14.4
400 metres hurdles details	Yuriy Lituyev (URS)	51.1	Per-Ove Trollsås (SWE)	51.6	Bruno Galliker (SUI)	51.8
3000 metres steeplechase details	Jerzy Chromik (POL)	8:38.2 CR	Semyon Rzhishchin (URS)	8:38.8	Hans Huneke (FRG)	8:43.6
4 × 100 metres relay details	West Germany Walter Mahlendorf Armin Hary Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar	40.2 CR	Great Britain Peter Radford Roy Sandstrom David Segal Adrian Breacker	40.2	Soviet Union Boris Tokarev Edvin Ozolin Yuriy Konovalov Leonid Bartenev	40.2
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury	3:07.9 CR	West Germany Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:08.2	Sweden Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Johnssson Alf Petersson	3:10.7
Marathon details	Sergei Popov (URS)	2:15:17.0 CR	Ivan Filin (URS)	2:20:50.6	Frederick Norris (GBR)	2:21:15.0
20 kilometres walk details	Stan Vickers (GBR)	1:33:09.0	Leonid Spirin (URS)	1:35:04.2	Lennart Back (SWE)	1:35:22.2
50 kilometres walk details	Yevgeniy Maskinskov (URS)	4:17:15.4 CR	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:18:00.0	Max Weber (GDR)	4:19:58.6
High jump details	Rickard Dahl (SWE)	2.12 m CR	Jiří Lanský (TCH)	2.10 m	Stig Pettersson (SWE)	2.10 m
Pole vault details	Eeles Landström (FIN)	4.50 m CR	Manfred Preussger (GDR)	4.50 m	Vladimir Bulatov (URS)	4.50 m
Long jump details	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	7.81 m CR	Kazimierz Kropidłowski (POL)	7.67 m	Henryk Grabowski (POL)	7.51 m
Triple jump details	Józef Schmidt (POL)	16.43 m CR	Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS)	16.02 m	Vilhjálmur Einarsson (ISL)	16.00 m
Shot put details	Arthur Rowe (GBR)	17.78 m CR	Viktor Lipsnis (URS)	17.47 m	Jiří Skobla (TCH)	17.12 m
Discus throw details	Edmund Piątkowski (POL)	53.92 m CR	Todor Artarski (BUL)	53.82 m	Vladimir Trusenyev (URS)	53.74 m
Javelin throw details	Janusz Sidło (POL)	80.16 m CR	Egil Danielsen (NOR)	78.27 m	Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)	75.25 m
Hammer throw details	Tadeusz Rut (POL)	64.78 m CR	Mikhail Krivonosov (URS)	63.78 m	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	63.68 m
Decathlon details	Vasili Kuznetsov (URS)	7865 pts CR	Uno Palu (URS)	7329 pts	Walter Meier (GDR)	7249 pts

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Heather Young (GBR)	11.7 =CR	Vera Krepkina (URS)	11.7	Christa Stubnick (GDR)	11.8
200 metres details	Barbara Janiszewska (POL)	24.1	Hannelore Sadau (GDR)	24.3	Maria Itkina (URS)	24.3
400 metres details	Maria Itkina (URS)	53.7 CR	Yekaterina Parlyuk (URS)	54.8	Moyra Hiscox (GBR)	55.7
800 metres details	Yelizaveta Yermolayeva (URS)	2:06.3 CR	Diane Leather (GBR)	2:06.6	Dzidra Levitska (URS)	2:06.6
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union Vera Krepkina Linda Kepp Nina Polyakova Valentina Maslovskaya	45.3 CR	Great Britain Madeleine Weston Dorothy Hyman Marianne Dew Carole Quinton	46.0	Poland Maria Chojnacka Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Maria Bibro	46.0
80 metres hurdles details	Galina Bystrova (URS)	10.9 CR	Zenta Kopp (FRG)	10.9	Gisela Birkemeyer (GDR)	11.0
Long jump details	Liesel Jakobi (FRG)	6.14 m CR	Valentina Lituyeva (URS)	6.00 m	Nina Protchenko (URS)	5.99 m
High jump details	Iolanda Balaş (ROU)	1.77 m CR	Taisia Chenchik (URS)	1.70 m	Dorothy Shirley (GBR)	1.67 m
Shot put details	Marianne Werner (FRG)	15.74 m CR	Tamara Tyshkevich (URS)	15.54 m	Tamara Press (URS)	15.53 m
Discus throw details	Tamara Press (URS)	53.32 m CR	Štěpánka Mertová (TCH)	52.19 m	Kriemhild Hausmann (FRG)	50.99 m
Javelin throw details	Dana Zátopková (TCH)	56.02 m CR	Birutė Zalogaitytė (URS)	51.30 m	Jutta Neumann (FRG)	50.50 m
Pentathlon details	Galina Bystrova (URS)	4733 pts CR	Nina Vinogradova (URS)	4627 pts	Edeltraud Eiberle (FRG)	4545 pts

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	11	15	9	35
2	Poland (POL)	8	2	2	12
3	Great Britain (GBR)	7	5	5	17
4	West Germany (FRG)	6	3	6	15
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	3	6
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	2	1	4
7	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
7	Romania (ROM)	1	0	0	1
9	East Germany (GDR)	0	2	4	6
10	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia)	0	1	0	1
14	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
15	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		36	36	36	108

1958 European Athletics Championships

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