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 200 metres at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 25, 26 and 27 August 1950.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Brian Shenton  Great Britain
Silver	Étienne Bally  France
Bronze	Jan Lammers  Netherlands

Results

Final

27 August Wind: -0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.5
	Étienne Bally	France	21.8
	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	22.1
4	Angelo Moretti	Italy	22.1
5	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	22.1
6	Yves Camus	France	22.2

Semi-finals

26 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: 0.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Étienne Bally	France	21.9	Q
2	Angelo Moretti	Italy	21.9	Q
3	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	22.0	Q
4	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	22.0
5	Mario Colarossi	Italy	22.0
6	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	22.1

Semi-final 2

Wind: NWI

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.5	Q
2	Yves Camus	France	21.7	Q
3	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	21.9	Q
4	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	21.9
5	Petar Pecelj	Yugoslavia	22.0
6	Willy Burgisser	Switzerland	22.6

Heats

25 August

Heat 1

Wind: 0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Étienne Bally	France	21.6	Q
2	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	22.4	Q
3	Fred Hammer	Luxembourg	22.5
4	Jaakko Suikkari	Finland	22.7

Heat 2

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	21.5	Q
2	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	22.0	Q
3	Knud Schibsbye	Denmark	22.1
4	Hector Gosset	Belgium	22.6

Heat 3

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mario Colarossi	Italy	22.4	Q
2	Willy Burgisser	Switzerland	22.5	Q

Heat 4

Wind: 0.7m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yves Camus	France	22.0	Q
2	Angelo Moretti	Italy	22.0	Q
3	John Gregory	Great Britain	22.1
4	Henry Johansen	Norway	22.1
5	Jean-Petit Hammer	Luxembourg	22.9

Heat 5

Wind: 0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Petar Pecelj	Yugoslavia	22.0	Q
2	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	22.1	Q
3	Fernand Linssen	Belgium	22.4
4	Knut Moum	Norway	22.6
5	Michail Tsokalis	Greece	22.8

Heat 6

Wind: 0.4m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	21.9	Q
2	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	22.0	Q
3	Willy Eichenberger	Switzerland	22.7
4	Tomas Paquete	Portugal	23.1
5	Lennart Lindberg	Finland	23.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References