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1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

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Men's 800 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 800 metres at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 19, 20, and 21 August 1958.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Mike Rawson
 Great Britain
Silver Audun Boysen
 Norway
Bronze Paul Schmidt
 West Germany

Results

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Final

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21 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mike Rawson  Great Britain 1:47.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Audun Boysen  Norway 1:47.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Paul Schmidt  West Germany 1:47.9
4 Zbigniew Makomaski  Poland 1:48.0
5 Lajos Szentgáli  Hungary 1:48.3
6 Herbert Missalla  West Germany 1:48.5
7 Derek Johnson  Great Britain 1:49.2
8 Christian Wägli   Switzerland 1:52.0

Semi-finals

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20 August

Semi-final 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Derek Johnson  Great Britain 1:48.8 Q
2 Christian Wägli   Switzerland 1:49.0 Q
3 Zbigniew Makomaski  Poland 1:49.1 Q
4 Herbert Missalla  West Germany 1:49.2 Q
5 Lajos Kovács  Hungary 1:49.2
6 Olavi Salonen  Finland 1:51.8
7 Svavar Markússon  Iceland 1:54.6
8 Hendrik Haus  Netherlands 1:59.0

Semi-final 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Paul Schmidt  West Germany 1:49.5 Q
2 Lajos Szentgáli  Hungary 1:49.8 Q
3 Audun Boysen  Norway 1:49.9 Q
4 Mike Rawson  Great Britain 1:50.1 Q
5 Evangelos Depastas  Greece 1:50.3
6 Gianfranco Baraldi  Italy 1:51.2
7 Rolf Gottfridsson  Sweden 1:52.1
Tadeusz Kaźmierski  Poland DQ

Heats

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19 August

Heat 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Derek Johnson  Great Britain 1:49.5 Q
2 Lajos Szentgáli  Hungary 1:50.0 Q
3 Svavar Markússon  Iceland 1:50.5 NR Q
4 Hendrik Haus  Netherlands 1:51.0 Q
5 Cesáreo Marín  Spain 1:52.8

Heat 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Mike Rawson  Great Britain 1:50.4 Q
2 Evangelos Depastas  Greece 1:50.7 Q
3 Olavi Salonen  Finland 1:50.7 Q
4 Zbigniew Makomaski  Poland 1:51.2 Q
5 Gérard Vervoort  France 1:51.6
6 Hendrik Heida  Netherlands 1:52.3

Heat 3

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Herbert Missalla  West Germany 1:50.0 Q
2 Audun Boysen  Norway 1:50.5 Q
3 Christian Wägli   Switzerland 1:50.6 Q
4 Tadeusz Kaźmierski  Poland 1:50.8 Q
5 Dimitrios Konstantinidis  Greece 1:50.9
6 Rudolf Klaban  Austria 1:51.3

Heat 4

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Paul Schmidt  West Germany 1:51.4 Q
2 Gianfranco Baraldi  Italy 1:51.8 Q
3 Lajos Kovács  Hungary 1:52.0 Q
4 Rolf Gottfridsson  Sweden 1:52.0 Q
5 Čeněk Hanka  Czechoslovakia 1:52.1
6 Robert Misplon  France 1:54.3

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014