1934 European Athletics Championships

1st European Athletics Championships
Host city	Turin, 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.

Results

Medalists and complete results were published.

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.

• Austria (6)
• Belgium (3)
• Bulgaria (2)
• Czechoslovakia (13)
• Denmark (2)
• Estonia (7)

• Finland (20)
• France (18)
• Germany (27)
• Greece (2)
• Hungary (17)
• Italy (41)

• Latvia (6)
• Lithuania (3)
• Luxembourg (4)
• Netherlands (8)
• Norway (4)
• Poland (5)

• Portugal (1)
• Romania (1)
• Sweden (18)
• Switzerland (11)
• Yugoslavia (4)

External links

• European Athletics website