| 4th European Athletics Championships | |
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| Host City: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Dates: | 23 – 27 August |
| Stadium: | Stade du Heysel |
| Level: | Senior |
| Type: | Outdoor |
| Nations Participating: | 24 |
| Athletes Participating: | 454 |
| Events: | 34 |
| Previous: | 1946 Oslo |
| Next: | 1954 Bern |
The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgian capital Brussels. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
Complete results were published.
| 10.7 | 10.7 | 10.7 | |||||
| 21.5 | 21.8 | 22.1 | |||||
| 47.3 | 47.6 | 47.9 | |||||
| 1:50.5 | 1:50.7 | 1:50.7 | |||||
| 3:47.2 | 3:47.8 | 3:48.0 | |||||
| 14:03.0 | 14:26.0 | 14:26.2 | |||||
| 29:12.0 | 30:21.0 | 30:30.8 | |||||
| 2:32:13 | 2:32:45 | 2:33:47 | |||||
| 14.6 | 14.7 | 15.0 | |||||
| 51.9 | 52.4 | 52.7 | |||||
| 9:05.4 | 9:07.4 | 9:08.8 | |||||
| 46:01.8 | 46:16.8 | 46:48.2 | |||||
| 4:40:43 | 4:43:25 | 4:49:28 | |||||
Vladimir Sukharev Levan Kalyayev Levan Sanadze Nikolay Karakulov | 41.5 | Étienne Bally Jacques Perlot Yves Camus Jean-Pierre Guillon | 41.8 | Göte Kjellberg Leif Christersson Stig Danielsson Hans Rydén | 41.9 | ||
Martin Pike Leslie Lewis Angus Scott Derek Pugh | 3:10.2 | Baldasare Porto Armando Filiput Luigi Paterlini Antonio Siddi | 3:11.0 | Gösta Brännström Tage Ekfeldt Rune Larsson Lars Wolfbrandt | 3:11.6 |
| 1.96 | 1.93 | 1.93 | |||||
| 7.32 | 7.22 | 7.20 | |||||
| 4.30 | 4.25 | 4.25 | |||||
| 15.39 | 14.96 | 14.53 | |||||
| 16.74 | 15.16 | 15.14 | |||||
| 53.75 | 52.31 | 48.69 | |||||
| 71.26 | 70.06 | 69.82 | |||||
| 55.71 | 54.73 | 53.64 | |||||
| 7364 | 7297 | 7175 |
| 11.7 | 12.3 | 12.4 | |||||
| 24.0 | 24.8 | 25.0 | |||||
| 11.1 | 11.6 | 11.7 | |||||
Elspeth Hay Jean Desforges Dorothy Hall June Foulds | 47.4 | Xenia Stad-de Jong Bertha Brouwer Gré de Jongh Fanny Blankers-Koen | 47.4 | Elene Gokieli Sofya Malshina Zoya Dukhovich Yevgeniya Sechenova | 47.5 |
| 1.63 | 1.63 | 1.63 | |||||
| 5.82 | 5.63 | 5.57 | |||||
| 14.32 | 13.92 | 13.37 | |||||
| 48.03 | 42.25 | 41.57 | |||||
| 47.55 | 43.87 | 42.75 | |||||
| 3204 | 3048 | 3026 |
According to an unofficial count, 454 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event, in agreement with the official number of athletes, but three countries less than the official number of 24 as published.
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(48)
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(33)
(5)
(17)
(3)
Spain (2)
(38)
(10)
(48)