1934 European Athletics Championships

1st European Athletics Championships
Dates	7 – 9 September
Host city	Turin, Italy
Venue	Stadio Benito Mussolini
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	22
Participation	226 athletes from 23 nations
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 details	Chris Berger  Netherlands	10.6	Erich Borchmeyer  Germany	10.7	József Sir  Hungary	10.7
200 metres details	Chris Berger  Netherlands	21.5	József Sir  Hungary	21.5	Tinus Osendarp  Netherlands	21.6 Jan Poser
400 metres details	Adolf Metzner  Germany	47.9	Pierre Skawinski  France	48.0	Bertil von Wachenfeldt  Sweden	48.0
800 metres details	Miklós Szabó  Hungary	1:52.0	Mario Lanzi  Italy	1:52.0	Wolfgang Dessecker  Germany	1:52.2
1500 metres details	Luigi Beccali  Italy	3:54.6	Miklós Szabó  Hungary	3:55.2	France	3:57.0
5000 metres details	Roger Rochard  France	14:36.8	Janusz Kusociński  Poland	14:41.2	Ilmari Salminen  Finland	14:43.6
10,000 metres details	Ilmari Salminen  Finland	31:02.6	Arvo Askola  Finland	31:03.3	Henry Nielsen  Denmark	31:27.4
Marathon details	Armas Toivonen  Finland	2:52:29	Thore Enochsson  Sweden	2:54:36	Aurelio Genghini  Italy	2:55:04
110 metres hurdles details	József Kovács  Hungary	14.8	Erwin Wegner  Germany	14.9	Holger Albrechtsen  Norway	15.0
400 metres hurdles details	Hans Scheele  Germany	53.2	Akilles Järvinen  Finland	53.7	Christos Mantikas  Greece	54.9
50 kilometres walk details	Jānis Daliņš  Latvia	4:49:53	Arthur Tell Schwab   Switzerland	4:53:09	Ettore Rivolta  Italy	4:54:06
4 × 100 metres relay details	Germany Egon Schein Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger Erich Borchmeyer	41.0	Hungary József Kovács József Sir Gyula Gyenes	41.4	Netherlands Tinus Osendarp Tjeerd Boersma Chris Berger	41.6
4 × 400 metres relay details	Germany Helmut Hamann Hans Scheele Harry Voigt Adolf Metzner	3:14.1	France Robert Paul Georges Guillez Raymond Boisset Pierre Skawinski	3:15.6	Sweden Sven Strömberg Bertil von Wachenfeldt	3:16.6

Field[]

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

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	7	2	2	11
2	Finland (FIN)	5	4	4	13
3	Netherlands (NED)	3	0	2	5
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	3	2	7
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	4	3	8
6	France (FRA)	1	3	1	5
7	Italy (ITA)	1	2	2	5
8	Estonia (EST)	1	0	1	2
9	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
10	Norway (NOR)	0	2	1	3
11	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
12	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		22	22	22	66

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