1934 European Athletics Championships

1st European Athletics Championships
Host city	Torino, Italy
Date(s)	7 – 9 September
Main stadium	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Participation	226 athletes from 23 nations
Events	22
1938 Paris/Vienna →

The 1st European Athletics Championships were held in Turin, Italy, at the Stadio Benito Mussolini between 7 and 9 September 1934. A contemporaneous report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]

Results

Medalists^[2] and complete results were published.^[3]

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Chris Berger  Netherlands	10.6	Erich Borchmeyer  Germany	10.7	József Sir  Hungary	10.7
200 metres	Chris Berger  Netherlands	21.5	József Sir  Hungary	21.5	Tinus Osendarp  Netherlands	21.6
400 metres	Adolf Metzner  Germany	47.9	Pierre Skawinski  France	48.0	Bertil von Wachenfeldt  Sweden	48.0
800 metres	Miklós Szabó  Hungary	1:52.0	Mario Lanzi  Italy	1:52.0	Wolfgang Dessecker  Germany	1:52.2
1500 metres	Luigi Beccali  Italy	3:54.6	Miklós Szabó  Hungary	3:55.2	Roger Normand  France	3:57.0
5000 metres	Roger Rochard  France	14:36.8	Janusz Kusociński  Poland	14:41.2	Ilmari Salminen  Finland	14:43.6
10,000 metres	Ilmari Salminen  Finland	31:02.6	Arvo Askola  Finland	31:03.3	Henry Nielsen  Denmark	31:27.4
Marathon	Armas Toivonen  Finland	2:52:29	Thore Enochsson  Sweden	2:54:36	Aurelio Genghini  Italy	2:55:04
110 metres hurdles	József Kovács  Hungary	14.8	Erwin Wegner  Germany	14.9	Holger Albrechtsen  Norway	15.0
400 metres hurdles	Hans Scheele  Germany	53.2	Akilles Järvinen  Finland	53.7	Christos Mantikas  Greece	54.9
50 kilometres walk	Jānis Daliņš  Latvia	4:49:53	Arthur Tell Schwab   Switzerland	4:53:09	Ettore Rivolta  Italy	4:54:06
4 × 100 metres relay	Germany Egon Schein Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger Erich Borchmeyer	41.0	Hungary László Forgács József Kovács József Sir Gyula Gyenes	41.4	Netherlands Tinus Osendarp Tjeerd Boersma Robert Jansen Chris Berger	41.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Germany Helmut Hamann Hans Scheele Harry Voigt Adolf Metzner	3:14.1	France Robert Paul Serge Guillez Raymond Boisset Pierre Skawinski	3:15.6	Sweden Sven Strömberg Pelle Pihl Gustaf Eriksson Bertil von Wachenfeldt	3:16.6

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Kalevi Kotkas  Finland	2.00 m	Birger Halvorsen  Norway	1.97 m	Veikko Peräsalo  Finland	1.97 m
Long jump	Wilhelm Leichum  Germany	7.45 m	Otto Berg  Norway	7.31 m	Luz Long  Germany	7.25 m
Pole vault	Gustav Wegner  Germany	4.00 m	Bo Ljungberg  Sweden	4.00 m	John Lindroth  Finland	3.90 m
Triple jump	Willem Peters  Netherlands	14.89 m	Eric Svensson  Sweden	14.83 m	Onni Rajasaari  Finland	14.74 m
Shot put	Arnold Viiding  Estonia	15.19 m	Risto Kuntsi  Finland	15.19 m	František Douda  Czechoslovakia	15.18 m
Discus throw	Harald Andersson  Sweden	50.38 m	Paul Winter  France	47.09 m	István Donogán  Hungary	45.91 m
Javelin throw	Matti Järvinen  Finland	76.66 m WR	Matti Sippala  Finland	69.97 m	Gustav Sule  Estonia	69.31 m
Hammer throw	Ville Pörhölä  Finland	50.34 m	Fernande Vandelli  Italy	48.69 m	Gunnar Jansson  Sweden	47.85 m
Decathlon	Hans-Heinrich Sievert  Germany	6858 pts	Leif Dahlgren  Sweden	6666 pts	Jerzy Pławczyk  Poland	6399 pts

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	7	2	2	11
2	Finland	5	4	4	13
3	Netherlands	3	0	2	5
4	Hungary	2	3	2	7
5	Sweden	1	4	3	8
6	France	1	3	1	5
7	Italy	1	2	2	5
8	Estonia	1	0	1	2
9	Latvia	1	0	0	1
10	Norway	0	2	1	3
11	Poland	0	1	1	2
12	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
13=	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
13=	Denmark	0	0	1	1
13=	Greece	0	0	1	1

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 223 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event, three athletes less than the official number as published.^[4]

References

External links

• European Athletics website