1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 24 August 1946.^[1]

Men's 200 metres at the 1946 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Bislett Stadion
Location	Oslo
Dates	24 August (heats, semi-finals & final)
Competitors	22 from 14 nations
Winning time	21.6
Medalists
Nikolay Karakulov    Soviet Union   Haakon Tranberg    Norway   Jiří David    Czechoslovakia
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Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

•  Belgium (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (2)
•  Denmark (1)
•  France (2)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Italy (2)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Soviet Union (1)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

Results

Heats

24 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nikolay Karakulov	Soviet Union	21.9	Q
2	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	21.9	Q
3	Carlo Monti	Italy	22.3	Q
4	Gabe Scholten	Netherlands	22.4
5	Roman Sienicki	Poland	23.6

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jiří David	Czechoslovakia	22.3	Q
2	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	22.4	Q
3	Chris van Osta	Netherlands	22.5	Q
4	Gerhard Fehrm	Sweden	22.7
5	Vanes Montanari	Italy	24.1

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Julien Lebas	France	22.2	Q
2	Jack Archer	Great Britain	22.2	Q
3	Fernand Bourgaux	Belgium	22.7	Q
4	Børge Stougaard	Denmark	22.8
5	Egon Solymossy	Hungary	23.1
6	Marko Račič	Yugoslavia	23.6

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Haakon Tranberg	Norway	22.1	Q
2	Agathon Lepève	France	22.3	Q
3	Mirko Paráček	Czechoslovakia	22.5	Q
4	François Braekman	Belgium	22.6
5	Józef Rutkowski	Poland	22.8
6	Robert Roach	Great Britain	23.1

Semi-finals

24 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Archer	Great Britain	22.0	Q
2	Jiří David	Czechoslovakia	22.1	Q
3	Nikolay Karakulov	Soviet Union	22.1	Q
4	Agathon Lepève	France	22.2
5	Mirko Paráček	Czechoslovakia	22.7
	Chris van Osta	Netherlands	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	22.0	Q
2	Haakon Tranberg	Norway	22.0	Q
3	Julien Lebas	France	22.1	Q
4	Fernand Bourgaux	Belgium	22.2
5	Carlo Monti	Italy	22.2
6	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	22.3

Final

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nikolay Karakulov	Soviet Union	21.6	NR
	Haakon Tranberg	Norway	21.7
	Jiří David	Czechoslovakia	21.8
4	Stig Danielsson	Sweden	21.9
5	Julien Lebas	France	22.0
6	Jack Archer	Great Britain	22.0