1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Events at the 1946 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
10,000 m track walk		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 22 and 24 August 1946.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Bertel Storskrubb  Finland
Silver	Sixten Larsson  Sweden
Bronze	Rune Larsson  Sweden

Results

Final

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bertel Storskrubb	Finland	52.2	CR NR
	Sixten Larsson	Sweden	52.4	NR
	Rune Larsson	Sweden	52.5
4	Yves Cros	France	52.6	NR
5	Werner Christen	Switzerland	55.4
6	Ronald Ede	United Kingdom	56.5

Heats

22 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yves Cros	France	54.7	Q
2	Rune Larsson	Sweden	55.8	Q
3	Werner Christen	Switzerland	57.7	Q
4	Vlastimil Holeček	Czechoslovakia	58.4
5	Ole Dorph-Jensen	Denmark	62.7

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bertel Storskrubb	Finland	54.2	Q
2	Rune Larsson	Sweden	54.8	Q
3	Ronald Ede	United Kingdom	55.3	Q
4	Jacques Maloubier	France	55.3
5	Werner Rugel	Switzerland	55.5

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 10 athletes from 7 countries participated in the event.

Czechoslovakia (1)  Denmark (1)

Finland (1)  France (2)

Sweden (2)   Switzerland (2)

United Kingdom (1)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 367–372, retrieved 13 August 2014