| 3rd European Athletics Championships | |
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| Host City: | Oslo, Norway |
| Dates: | 22 – 25 August |
| Stadium: | Bislett Stadion |
| Level: | Senior |
| Type: | Outdoor |
| Nations Participating: | 20 |
| Athletes Participating: | 354 |
| Events: | 33 |
| Previous: | 1938 Paris/Vienna |
| Next: | 1950 Brussels |
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.
Complete results were published.
| 10.6 | 10.7 | 10.8 | |||||
| 21.6 | 21.7 | 21.8 | |||||
| 47.9 | 48.3 | 48.9 | |||||
| 1:51.0 | 1:51.1 | 1:51.2 | |||||
| 3:48.0 | 3:48.8 | 3:52.8 | |||||
| 14:08.6 | 14:14.0 | 14:23.2 | |||||
| 29:52.0 | 30:31.4 | 30:35.2 | |||||
| 2:24:55 | 2:26:08 | 2:26:21 | |||||
| 14.6 | 14.9 | 15.0 | |||||
| 52.2 | 52.4 | 52.5 | |||||
| 9:01.4 | 9:11.0 | 9:14.0 | |||||
| 46:05.2 | 47:03.6 | 48:10.4 | |||||
| 4:38:20 | 4:42:58 | 4:57:04 | |||||
Stig Danielsson Inge Nilsson Olle Laessker Stig Håkansson | 41.5 | Agathon Lepève Julien Lebas Pierre Gonon René Valmy | 42.0 | Mirko Paráček Leopold Láznička Miroslav Řihošek Jiří David | 42.2 | ||
Bernard Santona Yves Cros Robert Chef d’Hotel Jacques Lunis | 3:14.4 | Ronald Ede Derek Pugh Bernard Elliot Bill Roberts | 3:14.5 | Folke Alnevik Stig Lindgård Sven-Erik Nolinge Tore Sten | 3:15.0 |
| 1.99 | 1.96 | 1.93 | |||||
| 7.42 | 7.40 | 7.29 | |||||
| 4.17 | 4.10 | 4.10 | |||||
| 15.17 | 15.15 | 14.96 | |||||
| 15.56 | 15.25 | 15.23 | |||||
| 53.23 | 50.39 | 48.14 | |||||
| 68.74 | 67.50 | 66.40 | |||||
| 56.44 | 53.54 | 51.32 | |||||
| 6987 | 6930 | 6504 |
| 11.9 = | 12.1 | 12.2 | |||||
| 25.4 | 25.6 | 25.6 | |||||
| 11.8 | 11.9 | 11.9 | |||||
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Netty Witziers-Timmer Marta Adema Fanny Blankers-Koen | 47.8 | Léa Caurla Anne-Marie Colchen Claire Brésolles Monique Drilhon | 48.5 | Yevgeniya Sechenova Valentina Fokina Elene Gokieli Valentina Vasilyeva | 48.7 |
| 1.60 | 1.57 | 1.57 | |||||
| 5.67 | 5.67 | 5.63 | |||||
| 14.16 | 12.84 | 12.22 | |||||
| 44.21 | 40.46 | 39.37 | |||||
| 46.25 | 45.84 | 43.24 |
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.
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