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 discus throw at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 24 and 26 August 1950.^[1]

Gold	Adolfo Consolini  Italy
Silver	Giuseppe Tosi  Italy
Bronze	Olli Partanen  Finland

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	53.75	CR
	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	52.31
	Olli Partanen	Finland	48.69
4	Stein Johnson	Norway	48.55
5	Arne Hellberg	Sweden	47.37
6	Alojz Kormúth	Czechoslovakia	46.17
7	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	46.14
8	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	45.93
9	Danilo Žerjal	Yugoslavia	45.92

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	49.63	Q
2	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	47.99	Q
3	Stein Johnson	Norway	47.62	Q
4	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	45.60	Q
5	Danilo Žerjal	Yugoslavia	45.27	Q
6	Arne Hellberg	Sweden	44.78	Q
7	Alojz Kormúth	Czechoslovakia	44.64	Q
8	Olli Partanen	Finland	44.33	Q
9	Jørgen Munk Plum	Denmark	44.14	Q
10	Hermann Tunner	Austria	43.90
11	Gunnar Huseby	Iceland	43.78
12	Oskar Hafliger	Switzerland	43.39
13	Clément Mertens	Belgium	42.60
14	Raymond Kintziger	Belgium	42.46
15	Tauno Karlsson	Finland	42.46
16	Jean Darot	France	41.85
17	Serge Grisoni	France	41.26
18	José Luis Torres	Spain	38.92

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.