The 1st European Athletics Championships were staged at the Stadio Comunale in Turin

Turin

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, Italy

Italy

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 from 7 September to 9 September 1934 including only men's events. Women's championships were held separately in 1938, but men's and women's events were combined at one venue from 1946.

The discussion on the European Championships started before 1930, when a Hungarian member of the IAAF, dr. Stankovics, submitted his idea to the International Federation. During the Congress of IAAF in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, on 24 September 1933 the Federation approved his proposals and Italy hosted the first championships.

Track

100 m	Chris Berger Chris Berger Christiaan David "Chris" Berger was a Dutch athlete competing in the sprints.Born in Amsterdam, Berger's career highlight was at the first European Championships in Athletics, held in 1934 in Turin. There he won both the 100 m and 200 m sprints and came in third with the Dutch team at the 4 x 100...  Netherlands	10.6	Erich Borchmeyer Erich Borchmeyer Erich Borchmeyer was a German athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres.Borchmeyer was born in Münster. He competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the 4 x 100 metres relay, where he won the silver medal with his team mates Helmut Körnig,...  Germany	10.7	József Sir  Hungary	10.7
200 m	Chris Berger Chris Berger Christiaan David "Chris" Berger was a Dutch athlete competing in the sprints.Born in Amsterdam, Berger's career highlight was at the first European Championships in Athletics, held in 1934 in Turin. There he won both the 100 m and 200 m sprints and came in third with the Dutch team at the 4 x 100...  Netherlands	21.5	József Sir  Hungary	21.5	Tinus Osendarp Tinus Osendarp Martinus Bernardus Osendarp was a Dutch athlete, excelling in the sprint events.Born in Delft, Osendarp won two bronze medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the 100 and 200 m sprint events...  Netherlands	21.6
400 m	Adolf Metzner  Germany	47.9	Pierre Skawinski  Early Modern France	48.0	Bertil von Wachenfeldt  Sweden	48.0
800 m	Miklós Szabó  Hungary	1:52.0	Mario Lanzi Mario Lanzi Mario Lanzi was an Italian athlete in the 1930s who specialised in the 800m and also competed over 400m.-Life:Lanzi was born at Castelletto sopra Ticino, in the province of Novara ....  Italy	1:52.0	Wolfgang Dessecker  Germany	1:52.2
1500 m	Luigi Beccali Luigi Beccali Luigi Beccali was an Italian athlete, winner of 1500 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Born in Milan, Luigi Beccali, as a youth, was fascinated by cycling and track and field athletics, but choose the latter, when he met the coach Dino Nai.Luigi Beccali, an Italian champion in 1500 m from 1928 to...  Italy	3:54.6	Miklós Szabó  Hungary	3:55.2	Roger Normand  Early Modern France	3:57.0
5000 m	Roger Rochard Roger Rochard Roger Rochard was a French middle distance runner. He was the first French runner to become a European champion after winning the 5000m track event at the 1934 European Athletics Championships held in Turin, Italy....  Early Modern France	14:36.8	Janusz Kusociński Janusz Kusocinski Janusz Tadeusz Kusociński was a Polish athlete, winner in the 10000 m event at the 1932 Summer Olympics....  Poland	14:41.2	Ilmari Salminen Ilmari Salminen Ilmari R. Salminen was a Finnish athlete, winner of the 10,000 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Elimäki and died in Kouvola....  Finland	14:43.6
10,000 m	Ilmari Salminen Ilmari Salminen Ilmari R. Salminen was a Finnish athlete, winner of the 10,000 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Elimäki and died in Kouvola....  Finland	31:02.6	Arvo Askola Arvo Askola Arvo Askola was a Finnish track and field athlete who mainly competed in the 10,000 metres event. He competed for Finland in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, where he won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 metres competition.-References:*...  Finland	31:03.3	Henry Nielsen Henry Nielsen Henry Nielsen was a Danish stage and film actor.-Filmography:*Han, hun og Hamlet - 1932*Ud i den kolde sne - 1934*Min kone er husar - 1935*Millionærdrengen - 1936*I folkets navn - 1938...  Denmark	31:27.4
Marathon	Armas Toivonen Armas Toivonen Armas Adam Toivonen was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the men's marathon during his career....  Finland	2: 52:29	Thore Enochsson  Sweden	2: 54:36	Aurelie Genghini  Italy	2: 55:04
110 m H 110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...	József Kovács  Hungary	14.8	Erwin Wagner  Germany	14.9	Holger Albrechtsen Holger Albrechtsen Holger Albrechtsen was a Norwegian hurdler who specialized in the 110 and 400 metre hurdles.He won a bronze medal in 110 metre hurdles and finished fourth in 400 metre hurdles at the 1934 European Championships. He never participated in other international events like the Summer Olympics...  Norway	15.0
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...	Hans Scheele  Germany	53.2	Akilles Järvinen Akilles Järvinen Akilles Eero Johannes Järvinen was a Finnish athlete and decathlete and Olympic medallist....  Finland	53.7	Christos Mantikas  Greece	54.9
50 km walk Race walking Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...	Jānis Daliņš Janis Dalinš Jānis Daliņš was a Latvian athlete who competed in race walking....  Latvia	4: 49:53	Arthur Tell Schwab  Switzerland	4: 53:09	Ettore Rivolta  Italy	4: 54:06
4 x 100 m 4 x 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...	Germany Egon Schein Erwin Gillmeister Erwin Gillmeister Erwin Gillmeister was a German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.Gillmeister was born in Thorn in West Prussia. He competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Wilhelm Leichum,... Gerd Hornberger Gerd Hornberger Gerd Hornberger was a German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Wilhelm Leichum, Erich Borchmeyer and Erwin Gillmeister.Hornberger was... Erich Borchmeyer Erich Borchmeyer Erich Borchmeyer was a German athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres.Borchmeyer was born in Münster. He competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the 4 x 100 metres relay, where he won the silver medal with his team mates Helmut Körnig,...	41.0	Hungary László Forgács József Kovács József Sir Gyula Gyenes	41.4	Netherlands Tinus Osendarp Tinus Osendarp Martinus Bernardus Osendarp was a Dutch athlete, excelling in the sprint events.Born in Delft, Osendarp won two bronze medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the 100 and 200 m sprint events... Tjeerd Boersma Robert Jansen Chris Berger Chris Berger Christiaan David "Chris" Berger was a Dutch athlete competing in the sprints.Born in Amsterdam, Berger's career highlight was at the first European Championships in Athletics, held in 1934 in Turin. There he won both the 100 m and 200 m sprints and came in third with the Dutch team at the 4 x 100...	41.6
4 x 400 m	Germany Helmut Hamann Helmut Hamann Helmut Hamann was a German athlete from Berlin who competed mainly in the 400 metres.Hamann competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Friedrich von Stülpnagel, Harry Voigt and Rudolf... Hans Scheele Harry Voigt Harry Voigt Harry Voigt was a German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.Voigt was born in Berlin. He competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Helmut Hamann, Friedrich von Stülpnagel and... Adolf Metzner	3:14.1	Early Modern France Robert Paul Serge Guillez Raymond Boisset Pierre Skawinski	3:15.6	Sweden Sven Strömberg Pelle Pihl Gustaf Eriksson Bertil von Wachenfeldt	3:16.6

Field

High Jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Kalevi Kotkas  Finland	2.00	Birger Halvorsen Birger Halvorsen Birger Halvorsen was a Norwegian high jumper. He represented Horten FIK.He won a silver medal at the 1934 European Championships in Turin with a jump of 1.97 metres. This remained his career best jump. He never participated in the Summer Olympics. He became Norwegian champion in the years 1931-1934....  Norway	1.97	Veikko Peräsalo  Finland	1.97
Long Jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Wilhelm Leichum Wilhelm Leichum Wilhelm Leichum was a German athlete who competed mainly in the long jump and 100 metres.Leichum was born in Hesse...  Germany	7.45	Otto Berg Otto Berg (athlete) Otto Berg was a Norwegian long jumper.At the 1936 Summer Olympics he finished tenth in the long jump final with a jump of 7.30 metres. He won the silver medal at the 1934 European Championships in Athletics...  Netherlands	7.31	Luz Long Luz Long Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long was a German Olympic athlete, notable for winning Silver at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for giving advice to his competitor, Jesse Owens, who went on to win the gold medal for the broad jump as a result of Long's advice.Long was killed in...  Germany	7.25
Pole Vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...	Gustav Wegner  Germany	4.00	Bo Ljungberg  Sweden	4.00	John Lindroth  Finland	3.90
Triple Jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...	Willem Peters  Netherlands	14.89	Eric Svensson  Sweden	14.83	Onni Rajasaari  Finland	14.74
Shot Put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Arnold Viiding  Estonia	15.19	Risto Kuntsi  Finland	15.19	František Douda František Douda František Douda was a Czech shot putter who competed for Czechoslovakia. He was born in Planá nad Lužnicí....  Czechoslovakia	15.18
Discus Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Harald Andersson  Sweden	50.38	Paul Winter Paul Winter (athlete) Paul Winter was a French athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He was born in Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin....  Early Modern France	47.09	István Donogán  Hungary	45.91
Javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Matti Järvinen  Finland	76.66 (WR)	Matti Sippala Matti Sippala Matti Kalervo Sippala was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw. He was born in Hollola....  Finland	69.97	Gustav Sule  Estonia	69.31
Hammer Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...	Ville Pörhölä Ville Pörhölä Frans Wilhelm Pörhölä was a Finnish athlete who competed in shot put, discus throw, hammer throw and weight throw....  Finland	50.34	Fernande Vandelli  Italy	48.69	Gunnar Jansson Gunnar Jansson Gunnar Jansson was a Swedish football forward who played for Sweden in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Gefle IF.-External links:*...  Sweden	47.85
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...	Hans-Heinrich Sievert Hans-Heinrich Sievert Hans Heinrich Sievert was a German Olympic decathlete.He won the gold medal at the 1934 European Championships. In the Nazi period in Germany, Sievert was seen as a symbolic hope of the German "master race" in the 1936 Summer Olympics. However, he was injured during the games and the gold medal...  Germany	6858	Leif Dahlgren  Sweden	6666	Jerzy Pławczyk Jerzy Pławczyk Jerzy Pławczyk was a Polish athlete who competed at 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 in Los Angeles, he competed in the men's high jump event, where he placed joint-seventh out of fourteen competitors with a top height of 1.90m. In 1936 in Berlin he placed twenty-second and last in the same...  Poland	6399

Medals table

1.	Germany	7	2	3	12
2.	Finland	5	4	3	12
3.	Netherlands	3	0	2	5
4.	Hungary	2	3	1	6
5.	Italy	1	2	2	5
6.	Early Modern France	1	2	1	4
7.	Estonia	1	0	1	2
8.	Latvia	1	0	0	1
9.	Sweden	0	3	3	6
10.	Norway	0	2	1	3
11.	Poland	0	1	1	2
12.	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
13=	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
13=	Denmark	0	0	1	1
13=	Greece	0	0	1	1

External links

• EAA Official Website
• Athletix