| 6th European Athletics Championships | |
| Colour: |
|
| Host City: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Dates: | 19 – 24 August |
| Stadium: | Stockholms Olympiastadion |
| Level: | Senior |
| Type: | Outdoor |
| Nations Participating: | 26 |
| Athletes Participating: | 626 |
| Events: | 36 |
| Previous: | 1954 Bern |
| Next: | 1962 Belgrade |
The 6th European Athletics Championships were held from 19–24 August 1958 in the Olympic Stadium of Stockholm, Sweden. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
Complete results were published.
| 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.4 | |||||
| 21.0 | 21.3 | 21.3 | |||||
| 46.3 | 46.5 | 47.0 | |||||
| 1:47.8 | 1:47.9 | 1:47.9 | |||||
| 3:41.9 | 3:42.1 | 3:42.3 | |||||
| 13:53.4 | 13:55.2 | 14:01.6 | |||||
| 28:56.0 | 28:58.6 | 29:02.2 | |||||
| 13.7 | 14.1 | 14.4 | |||||
| 51.1 | 51.6 | 51.8 | |||||
| 8:38.2 | 8:38.8 | 8:43.6 | |||||
Walter Mahlendorf Armin Hary Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar | 40.2 | Peter Radford Roy Sandstrom David Segal Adrian Breacker | 40.2 | Boris Tokarev Edvin Ozolin Yuriy Konovalov Leonid Bartenev | 40.2 | ||
Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury | 3:07.9 | Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas | 3:08.2 | Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Johnssson Alf Petersson | 3:10.7 | ||
| 2:15:17.0 | 2:20:50.6 | 2:21:15.0 | |||||
| 1:33:09.0 | 1:35:04.2 | 1:35:22.2 | |||||
| 4:17:15.4 | 4:18:00.0 | 4:19:58.6 | |||||
| 2.12 m | 2.10 m | 2.10 m | |||||
| 4.50 m | 4.50 m | 4.50 m | |||||
| 7.81 m | 7.67 m | 7.51 m | |||||
| 16.43 m | 16.02 m | 16.00 m | |||||
| 17.78 m | 17.47 m | 17.12 m | |||||
| 53.92 m | 53.82 m | 53.74 m | |||||
| 80.16 m | 78.27 m | 75.25 m | |||||
| 64.78 m | 63.78 m | 63.68 m | |||||
| 7865 pts | 7329 pts | 7249 pts |
| 11.7 = | 11.7 | 11.8 | |||||
| 24.1 | 24.3 | 24.3 | |||||
| 53.7 | 54.8 | 55.7 | |||||
| 2:06.3 | 2:06.6 | 2:06.6 | |||||
Vera Krepkina Linda Kepp Nina Polyakova Valentina Maslovskaya | 45.3 | Madeleine Weston Dorothy Hyman Marianne Dew Carole Quinton | 46.0 | Maria Chojnacka Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Maria Bibro | 46.0 | ||
| 10.9 | 10.9 | 11.0 | |||||
| 6.14 m | 6.00 m | 5.99 m | |||||
| 1.77 m | 1.70 m | 1.67 m | |||||
| 15.74 m | 15.54 m | 15.53 m | |||||
| 53.32 m | 52.19 m | 50.99 m | |||||
| 56.02 m | 51.30 m | 50.50 m | |||||
| 4733 pts | 4627 pts | 4545 pts |
According to an unofficial count, 629 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event, three athletes more than the official number of 626 as published. A joint German team comprising athletes from both East and West Germany was competing. Assignment of the athletes to East or West Germany was accomplished using the database of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V.
(15)
(13)
(29)
(38)
(22)
(9)
(4)
(35)
(1)
(25)
(49)
(7)
(7)
(48)
(5)
(55)