1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

Events at the 1950 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
10,000 m track walk		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's javelin throw at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Bruxelles, Belgium, at Stade du Heysel on 26 and 27 August 1950.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Toivo Hyytiäinen  Finland
Silver	Per-Arne Berglund  Sweden
Bronze	Ragnar Ericzon  Sweden

Results

Final

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	71.26
02 !	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	70.06
03 !	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	69.82
4	Mirko Vujacic	Yugoslavia	66.84
5	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	66.20
6	Amos Matteucci	Italy	64.99
7	Erwin Pektor	Austria	62.13
8	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	61.50
9	Viktor Iyevlev	Soviet Union	58.59

Qualification

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	68.49	Q
2	Toivo Hyytiäinen	Finland	68.02	Q
3	Tapio Rautavaara	Finland	67.36	Q
4	Ragnar Ericzon	Sweden	65.29	Q
5	Mirko Vujacic	Yugoslavia	63.74	Q
6	Erwin Pektor	Austria	63.51	Q
7	Amos Matteucci	Italy	61.63	Q
8	Viktor Iyevlev	Soviet Union	61.25	Q
9	Nico Lutkeveld	Netherlands	60.66	Q
10	Halil Zıraman	Turkey	60.46
11	Branko Dangubić	Yugoslavia	59.37
12	Jóel Sigurðsson	Iceland	58.87
13	Vasilios Kalimanis	Greece	54.28
14	Raymond van Eycken	Belgium	52.82
15	Ernst Lüthi	Switzerland	51.54
16	Raymond Prud'homme	Belgium	46.35

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References