1950 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
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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 100 metres at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 23 and 24 August 1950.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Étienne Bally  France
Silver	Franco Leccese  Italy
Bronze	Vladimir Sukharev  Soviet Union

Results

Final

24 August Wind: 0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Étienne Bally	France	10.7
	Franco Leccese	Italy	10.7
	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.7
4	Emil Kiszka	Poland	10.7
5	Haukur Clausen	Iceland	10.8
6	Petar Pecelj	Yugoslavia	10.8

Semi-finals

24 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Franco Leccese	Italy	10.7	Q
2	Emil Kiszka	Poland	10.8	Q
3	Petar Pecelj	Yugoslavia	11.0	Q
4	Nikolay Karakulov	Soviet Union	11.1
5	Knud Schibsbye	Denmark	11.1
6	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	11.1

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Étienne Bally	France	10.6	Q
2	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.7	Q
3	Haukur Clausen	Iceland	11.0	Q
4	Alan Grieve	Great Britain	11.0
5	Gesualdo Penna	Italy	11.0
6	Hans Peter Pedersen	Norway	11.2

Heats

23 August

Heat 1

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nikolay Karakulov	Soviet Union	11.1	Q
2	Hans Peter Pedersen	Norway	11.2	Q

Heat 2

Wind: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Petar Pecelj	Yugoslavia	11.0	Q
2	Emil Kiszka	Poland	11.1	Q
3	Tomas Paquete	Portugal	11.1
4	Hans Wehrli	Switzerland	11.1
5	Fred Hammer	Luxembourg	11.2

Heat 3

Wind: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Franco Leccese	Italy	10.6	Q
2	Alan Grieve	Great Britain	10.8	Q
3	Henry Johansen	Norway	11.0
4	Christian Brac	France	11.2
5	Leif Christersson	Sweden	11.2

Heat 4

Wind: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Knud Schibsbye	Denmark	11.1	Q
2	Gesualdo Penna	Italy	11.2	Q
3	Austin Pinnington	Great Britain	11.2
4	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	11.3
5	Hans Rydén	Sweden	11.3

Heat 5

Wind: -1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Étienne Bally	France	10.9	Q
2	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	11.1	Q
3	Roland Vercruysse	Belgium	11.1
4	Michail Tsokalis	Greece	11.4
5	Willy Eichenberger	Switzerland	11.6

Heat 6

Wind: -0.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.7	Q
2	Haukur Clausen	Iceland	11.0	Q
3	Isidoor Vandewiele	Belgium	11.1
4	Jean-Petit Hammer	Luxembourg	11.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References