1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

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
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The men's marathon at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 23 August 1950.^[1]

Gold	Jack Holden  Great Britain
Silver	Veikko Karvonen  Finland
Bronze	Feodosiy Vanin  Soviet Union

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jack Holden	Great Britain	2:32:14	CR
	Veikko Karvonen	Finland	2:32:45
	Feodosiy Vanin	Soviet Union	2:33:47
4	Gösta Leandersson	Sweden	2:34:26
5	Vasiliy Gordiyenko	Soviet Union	2:34:37
6	Charles Cérou	France	2:36:09
7	Jean Leblond	Belgium	2:36:55
8	Étienne Gailly	Belgium	2:38:24
9	John Systad	Norway	2:39:50
10	Gustav Östling	Sweden	2:41:18
11	Edward Denison	Great Britain	2:44:31
12	Vilho Partanen	Finland	2:45:26
13	Miroslav Glogonjac	Yugoslavia	2:55:41
14	Luka Bosanac	Yugoslavia	2:59:05
15	Alfons Zwicker	Switzerland	3:01:04
16	Adri Moons	Netherlands	3:01:50
17	Athanasios Ragazos	Greece	3:01:52
18	Behzat Akdeniz	Turkey	NT
19	Gottfried Knecht	Switzerland	NT
	René Josset	France	DNF
	Joop Overdyk	Netherlands	DNF
	Ludwig Jahn	Austria	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.