# 1946 European Athletics Championships

The 3rd European Athletics Championships were held from 22 August to 25 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway. For the first time it was a combined event for men and women, and for the first time a city in Scandinavia hosted the championships. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
Two of the women's medalists from France underwent sex change later. Claire Brésolles became Pierre Brésolles, and Léa Caurla became Léon Caurla.

## Men's results

Complete results were published.

### Track

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Jack Archer (GBR) | 10.6 | Haakon Tranberg (NOR) | 10.7 | Carlo Monti (ITA) | 10.8 |
| 200 metres details | Nikolay Karakulov (URS) | 21.6 | Haakon Tranberg (NOR) | 21.7 | Jiří David (TCH) | 21.8 |
| 400 metres details | Niels Holst-Sørensen (DEN) | 47.9 | Jacques Lunis (FRA) | 48.3 | Derek Pugh (GBR) | 48.9 |
| 800 metres details | Rune Gustafsson (SWE) | 1:51.0 | Niels Holst-Sørensen (DEN) | 1:51.1 | Marcel Hansenne (FRA) | 1:51.2 |
| 1500 metres details | Lennart Strand (SWE) | 3:48.0 CR | Henry Eriksson (SWE) | 3:48.8 | Erik Jørgensen (DEN) | 3:52.8 |
| 5000 metres details | Sydney Wooderson (GBR) | 14:08.6 CR | Wim Slijkhuis (NED) | 14:14.0 | Evert Nyberg (SWE) | 14:23.2 |
| 10,000 metres details | Viljo Heino (FIN) | 29:52.0 CR | Helge Perälä (FIN) | 30:31.4 | András Csaplár (HUN) | 30:35.2 |
| Marathon details | Mikko Hietanen (FIN) | 2:24:55 | Väinö Muinonen (FIN) | 2:26:08 | Yakov Punko (URS) | 2:26:21 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Håkan Lidman (SWE) | 14.6 | Hippolyte Braekman (BEL) | 14.9 | Väinö Suvivuo (FIN) | 15.0 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Bertel Storskrubb (FIN) | 52.2 CR | Sixten Larsson (SWE) | 52.4 | Rune Larsson (SWE) | 52.5 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Raphaël Pujazon (FRA) | 9:01.4 CR | Erik Elmsäter (SWE) | 9:11.0 | Tore Sjöstrand (SWE) | 9:14.0 |
| 10,000 metres track walk details | John Mikaelsson (SWE) | 46:05.2 | Fritz Schwab (SUI) | 47:03.6 | Emile Maggi (FRA) | 48:10.4 |
| 50 kilometres walk details | John Ljunggren (SWE) | 4:38:20 CR | Harry Forbes (GBR) | 4:42:58 | Charles Megnin (GBR) | 4:57:04 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Sweden Stig Danielsson Inge Nilsson Olle Laessker Stig Håkansson | 41.5 | France Agathon Lepève Julien Lebas Pierre Gonon René Valmy | 42.0 | Czechoslovakia Mirko Paráček Leopold Láznička Miroslav Řihošek Jiří David | 42.2 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | France Bernard Santona Yves Cros Robert Chef d’Hotel Jacques Lunis | 3:14.4 | Great Britain Ronald Ede Derek Pugh Bernard Elliot Bill Roberts | 3:14.5 | Sweden Folke Alnevik Stig Lindgård Sven-Erik Nolinge Tore Sten | 3:15.0 |
* $^{nb}$ The marathon at the 1946 European Championships was completed over a course measuring 40.1 km, 2 km shorter than the official marathon distance.

### Field

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| High jump details | Anton Bolinder (SWE) | 1.99 | Alan Paterson (GBR) | 1.96 | Nils Nicklén (FIN) | 1.93 |
| Long jump details | Olle Laessker (SWE) | 7.42 | Lucien Graff (SUI) | 7.40 | Miroslav Řihošek (TCH) | 7.29 |
| Pole vault details | Allan Lindberg (SWE) | 4.17 CR | Nikolay Ozolin (URS) | 4.10 | Jan Bém (TCH) | 4.10 |
| Triple jump details | Valdemar Rautio (FIN) | 15.17 | Bertil Johnsson (SWE) | 15.15 | Arne Åhman (SWE) | 14.96 |
| Shot put details | Gunnar Huseby (ISL) | 15.56 | Dmitriy Goryainov (URS) | 15.25 | Yrjö Lehtilä (FIN) | 15.23 |
| Discus throw details | Adolfo Consolini (ITA) | 53.23 CR | Giuseppe Tosi (ITA) | 50.39 | Veikko Nyqvist (FIN) | 48.14 |
| Javelin throw details | Lennart Atterwall (SWE) | 68.74 | Yrjö Nikkanen (FIN) | 67.50 | Tapio Rautavaara (FIN) | 66.40 |
| Hammer throw details | Bo Ericson (SWE) | 56.44 | Eric Johansson (SWE) | 53.54 | Duncan Clark (GBR) | 51.32 |
| Decathlon details | Godtfred Holmvang (NOR) | 6987 CR | Sergey Kuznetsov (URS) | 6930 | Göran Waxberg (SWE) | 6504 |

## Women's results
### Track

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 11.9 =CR | Winifred Jordan (GBR) | 12.1 | Claire Brésolles (FRA) | 12.2 |
| 200 metres details | Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) | 25.4 | Winifred Jordan (GBR) | 25.6 | Léa Caurla (FRA) | 25.6 |
| 80 metres hurdles details | Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 11.8 | Elene Gokieli (URS) | 11.9 | Valentina Fokina (URS) | 11.9 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Netherlands Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Netty Witziers-Timmer Marta Adema Fanny Blankers-Koen | 47.8 | France Léa Caurla Anne-Marie Colchen Claire Brésolles Monique Drilhon | 48.5 | Soviet Union Yevgeniya Sechenova Valentina Fokina Elene Gokieli Valentina Vasilyeva | 48.7 |

### Field

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| High jump details | Anne-Marie Colchen (FRA) | 1.60 | Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | 1.57 | Anne Iversen (DEN) | 1.57 |
| Long jump details | Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (NED) | 5.67 | Lidija Gaile (URS) | 5.67 | Valentina Vasilyeva (URS) | 5.63 |
| Shot put details | Tatyana Sevryukova (URS) | 14.16 CR | Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA) | 12.84 | Amelia Piccinini (ITA) | 12.22 |
| Discus throw details | Nina Dumbadze (URS) | 44.21 | Ann Niesink (NED) | 40.46 | Jadwiga Wajs (POL) | 39.37 |
| Javelin throw details | Klavdiya Mayuchaya (URS) | 46.25 CR | Lyudmila Anokhina (URS) | 45.84 | Johanna Koning (NED) | 43.24 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Sweden (SWE) | 11 | 5 | 6 | 22 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Finland (FIN) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | Iceland (ISL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 14 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 33 | 33 | 33 | 99 |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 354 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event, one athlete more than the official number of 353 as published.
* Belgium (11)
* Czechoslovakia (29)
* Denmark (23)
* Finland (20)
* France (31)
* Greece (5)
* Hungary (11)
* Iceland (10)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (15)
* Liechtenstein (2)
* Luxembourg (5)
* Netherlands (17)
* Norway (38)
* Poland (18)
* Soviet Union (19)
* Sweden (54)
* Switzerland (14)
* Great Britain (24)
* Yugoslavia (7)