1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

None Men's 400 metres European Athletics Championships The men's 400 metres at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 19, 20, and 21 August 1958. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 384–390 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold John Wrighton GBRSilver John Salisbury GBRBronze Karl-Friedrich Haas FRG Results Final 21 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes John Wrighton GBR 46.3 CR NR John Salisbury GBR 46.5 Karl-Friedrich Haas FRG 47.0 4 Carl Kaufmann FRG 47.0 5 Alf Petersson SWE 47.5 6 Stanisław Swatowski POL 47.8 Semi-finals 20 August Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 John Wrighton GBR 46.9 Q 2 Karl-Friedrich Haas FRG 47.5 Q 3 Bernard Dibonda FRA 48.0 4 Csaba Csutorás HUN 1957 48.0 5 Pentti Rekola FIN 48.1 6 Gerard Mach POL 48.5 Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 John Salisbury GBR 46.8 Q 2 Carl Kaufmann FRG 47.2 Q 3 Voitto Hellstén FIN 47.2 4 Bruno Urben SUI 47.5 5 Lennart Jonsson SWE 47.7 6 Valentin Rakhmanov URS 1955 48.5 Semi-final 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Stanisław Swatowski POL 47.1 Q 2 Alf Petersson SWE 47.4 NR Q 3 René Weber SUI 47.4 4 Viktor Šnajder SFR Yugoslavia 47.5 NR 5 Traian Sudrigean ROU 1952 48.0 6 Mikhail Nikolskiy URS 1955 48.1 Heats 19 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 John Salisbury GBR 47.8 Q 2 Csaba Csutorás HUN 1957 47.9 Q 3 René Weber SUI 48.2 Q 4 Renato Panciera ITA 49.0 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Carl Kaufmann FRG 48.0 Q 2 Gerard Mach POL 48.3 Q 3 Traian Sudrigean ROU 1952 48.8 Q 4 Mario Fraschini ITA 49.0 Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Lennart Jonsson SWE 48.3 Q 2 Mikhail Nikolskiy URS 1955 48.3 Q 3 Stanisław Swatowski POL 48.4 Q 4 Louis De Clerck BEL 48.9 Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Alf Petersson SWE 47.8 Q 2 Viktor Šnajder SFR Yugoslavia 47.9 Q 3 John Wrighton GBR 47.9 Q 4 Michael Gialanze MLT 1943 53.4 Heat 5 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Karl-Friedrich Haas FRG 48.2 Q 2 Bruno Urben SUI 48.4 Q 3 Pentti Rekola FIN 48.4 Q 4 Jaroslav Jirásek TCH 48.6 5 Richard Stiger AUT 49.0 Heat 6 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Valentin Rakhmanov URS 1955 48.1 Q 2 Bernard Dibonda FRA 48.7 Q 3 Voitto Hellstén FIN 48.9 Q 4 Vasilios Syllis GRE old 49.2 5 Fahir Özgüden TUR 49.8 Participation According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event. 22em AUT (1) BEL (1) TCH (1) FIN (2) FRA (1) GRE old (1) HUN 1957 (1) ITA (2) MLT 1943 (1) POL (2) ROU 1952 (1) URS 1955 (2) SWE (2) SUI (2) TUR (1) GBR (2) FRG (2) SFR Yugoslavia (1) References Category:400 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1958 European Athletics Championships