1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw

Events at the 1958 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
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
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		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
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's discus throw at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 20 and 22 August 1958.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Edmund Piątkowski  Poland
Silver	Todor Artarski  Bulgaria
Bronze	Vladimir Trusenyev  Soviet Union

Results

Final

22 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	53.92	CR
02 !	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	53.82
03 !	Vladimir Trusenyev	Soviet Union	53.74
4	Kim Bukhantsev	Soviet Union	53.44
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	53.08
6	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	53.05
7	Carol Lindroos	Finland	51.95
8	József Szécsényi	Hungary	51.43
9	Pentti Repo	Finland	51.09
10	Cees Koch	Netherlands	50.97
11	Gerry Carr	United Kingdom	50.31
12	Dako Radošević	Yugoslavia	50.00
13	Fritz Kühl	East Germany	49.44
14	Lars Arvidson	Sweden	49.27
15	Otto Koppenhöfer	West Germany	48.42
16	Serge Grisoni	France	47.13

Qualification

20 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	52.78	Q
2	Kim Bukhantsev	Soviet Union	50.82	Q
3	József Szécsényi	Hungary	50.79	Q
4	Vladimir Trusenyev	Soviet Union	50.70	Q
5	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	50.28	Q
6	Lars Arvidson	Sweden	50.12	Q
7	Pentti Repo	Finland	49.63	Q
8	Otto Koppenhöfer	West Germany	49.17	Q
9	Cees Koch	Netherlands	49.12	Q
10	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	49.09	Q
11	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	48.91	Q
12	Dako Radošević	Yugoslavia	48.80	Q
13	Carol Lindroos	Finland	48.66	Q
14	Serge Grisoni	France	48.24	Q
15	Gerry Carr	United Kingdom	48.16	Q
16	Fritz Kühl	East Germany	48.02	Q
17	Östen Edlund	Sweden	47.52
18	Stein Haugen	Norway	46.98
19	Eugeniusz Wachowski	Poland	46.96
20	Pierre Alard	France	45.94
21	Hallgrímur Jónsson	Iceland	45.47

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

References