Petar Šegedin (athlete)

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Petar Šegedin
Medal record
Men's
athletics
Representing  Yugoslavia
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 1950 Brussels 3000 m steeplechase
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 1951 Alexandria 3000 m steeplechase

Petar Šegedin (14 September 1926 – 14 October 1994) was a Yugoslav steeplechase and long-distance runner.

Šegedin won the 3000 m steeplechase silver medal at the 1950 European Athletics Championships. He placed 6th in the same event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. His personal best over 3000 metres steeplechase was 8:47.8, set in 1953. He twice won the Yugoslavian Athletics Championships over 5000 m (1948 and 1950) and set five national records in this event.

Šegedin was a member of AK Jug, Dubrovnik and AK Partizan, Belgrade.

Sources

  • Petar Šegedin at sports-reference.com
  • European Championships (men)
  • Atletski savez Beograda - Atletičari (in Serbian)
  • Gizdić, Jurica (2016). Hrvatski olimpijci i odličnici (PDF) (in Croatian). . Retrieved 29 June 2018.
Awards
Preceded by
First award
Yugoslav Sportsman of the Year
1950
Succeeded by
Andrija Otenheimer