1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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The men's

Heysel Stadium on 26 and 27 August 1950.[1]

Medalists

Gold Martin Pike
Leslie Lewis
Angus Scott
Derek Pugh
 Great Britain
Silver Baldassare Porto
Armando Filiput
Luigi Paterlini
Antonio Siddi
 Italy
Bronze Gösta Brännström
Tage Ekfeldt
Rune Larsson
Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
 Sweden

Results

Final

27 August

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Great Britain Martin Pike
Leslie Lewis
Angus Scott
Derek Pugh
3:10.2 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Italy Baldassare Porto
Armando Filiput
Luigi Paterlini
Antonio Siddi
3:11.0 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Sweden Gösta Brännström
Tage Ekfeldt
Rune Larsson
Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
3:11.6 NR
4  France
Jean-Paul Martin du Gard
Jacques Lunis
3:11.6 NR
5  Soviet Union Pavel Kiyanenko
Gennadiy Modoy
Heino Potter
Sergey Komarov
3:15.4 NR
6  Finland Jaakko Suikkari
Lennart Lindberg
Ragnar Graeffe
Rolf Back
3:16.6 NR

Heats

26 August

Heat 1

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  Sweden Gösta Brännström
Tage Ekfeldt
Rune Larsson
Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt
3:17.4h
2  Great Britain Martin Pike
Leslie Lewis
Angus Scott
Derek Pugh
3:18.4h
3  Soviet Union Pavel Kiyanenko
Gennadiy Modoy
Heino Potter
Sergey Komarov
3:18.6h
4  Belgium Albert Lowagie
Jean-Baptiste Peeters
Oscar Soetewey
Marcel Dits
3:19.4h

Heat 2

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  Italy Baldassare Porto
Armando Filiput
Luigi Paterlini
Antonio Siddi
3:15.2h
2  Finland Jaakko Suikkari
Lennart Lindberg
Ragnar Graeffe
Rolf Back
3:16.4h
3  France
Jean-Paul Martin du Gard
Jacques Lunis
3:16.8h
4  Yugoslavia Marko Račič
Branislav Stankovic
Zvonko Sabolović
Lazar Milosevski
3:19.2h
5  Netherlands Jan Hofmeester
Frans Buys
Constant Mahieu
3:19.4 NR

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event. The fourth member of both the Belgian and Dutch relay teams are unknown.

References

  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF),
    European Athletics Association
    , pp. 372–377, retrieved 13 August 2014