1962 European Athletics Championships

7th European Athletics Championships

Host city	Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Date(s)	12 – 16 September 1962
Main stadium	JNA Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Participation	670 athletes from 29 nations
Events	36
← 1958 Stockholm 1966 Budapest →

The 7th European Athletics Championships were held from 12–16 September 1962 in the JNA Stadium in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Just before the meeting, the IAAF council approved the use glass fibre poles for pole vaulting. As a consequence, competitors were able to use them during the meeting if they wished.^[6]

Medal summary

Complete results were published.^[7]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Claude Piquemal (FRA)	10.4	Jocelyn Delecour (FRA)	10.4	Peter Gamper (FRG)	10.4
200 metres	Owe Jonsson (SWE)	20.7 CR	Marian Foik (POL)	20.8	Sergio Ottolina (ITA)	20.8
400 metres	Robbie Brightwell (GBR)	45.9 CR	Manfred Kinder (FRG)	46.1	Joachim Reske (FRG)	46.4
800 metres	Manfred Matuschewski (GDR)	1:50.5	Valeriy Bulyshev (URS)	1:51.2	Paul Schmidt (FRG)	1:51.2
1500 metres	Michel Jazy (FRA)	3:40.9 CR	Witold Baran (POL)	3:42.1	Tomáš Salinger (TCH)	3:42.2
5000 metres	Bruce Tulloh (GBR)	14:00.6	Kazimierz Zimny (POL)	14:01.8	Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS)	14:02.6
10,000 metres	Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS)	28:54.0 CR	Friedrich Janke (GDR)	29:01.6	Roy Fowler (GBR)	29:02.0
110 metres hurdles	Anatoly Mikhailov (URS)	13.8	Giovanni Cornacchia (ITA)	14.0	Nikolay Berezutskiy (URS)	14.2
400 metres hurdles	Salvatore Morale (ITA)	49.2 CR, WR	Jörg Neumann (FRG)	50.3	Helmut Janz (FRG)	50.5
3000 metres steeplechase	Gaston Roelants (BEL)	8:32.6 CR	Zoltán Vámos (ROU)	8:37.6	Nikolay Sokolov (URS)	8:40.6
4 × 100 metres relay	West Germany Klaus Ulonska Peter Gamper Hans-Joachim Bender Manfred Germar	39.5 CR	Poland Jerzy Juskowiak Andrzej Zieliński Zbigniew Syka Marian Foik	39.5	Great Britain Alf Meakin Ron Jones Berwyn Jones David Jones	39.8
4 × 400 metres relay	West Germany Wilfried Kindermann Johannes Schmitt Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder	3:05.8 CR	Great Britain Barry Jackson Ken Wilcock Adrian Metcalfe Robbie Brightwell	3:05.9	Switzerland Bruno Galliker Jean-Louis Descloux Marius Theiler Hans-Rüdi Bruder	3:07.0
Marathon	Brian Kilby (GBR)	2:23:18.8	Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL)	2:24:02.0	Viktor Baykov (URS)	2:24:19.8
20 kilometres walk	Ken Matthews (GBR)	1:35:54.8	Hans-Georg Reimann (GDR)	1:36:14.2	Vladimir Golubnichiy (URS)	1:36:37.6
50 kilometres walk	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:19:46.6	Grigoriy Panichkin (URS)	4:24:35.6	Donald Thompson (GBR)	4:29:00.2
High jump	Valeriy Brumel (URS)	2.21 m CR	Stig Pettersson (SWE)	2.13 m	Robert Shavlakadze (URS)	2.09 m
Pole vault	Pentti Nikula (FIN)	4.80 m CR	Rudolf Tomášek (TCH)	4.60 m	Kauko Nyström (FIN)	4.60 m
Long jump ^[nb]	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	8.19 m (+3.2) (7.87 m CR)	Rainer Stenius (FIN)	7.85 m	Pentti Eskola (FIN)	7.85 m
Triple jump	Józef Szmidt (POL)	16.55 m CR	Vladimir Goryaev (URS)	16.39 m	Oleg Fyodoseyev (URS)	16.24 m
Shot put	Vilmos Varjú (HUN)	19.02 m CR	Viktor Lipsnis (URS)	18.38 m	Alfred Sosgórnik (POL)	18.26 m
Discus throw	Vladimir Trusenyev (URS)	57.11 m CR	Kees Koch (NED)	55.96 m	Lothar Milde (GDR)	55.47 m
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis (URS)	82.04 m CR	Viktor Tsybulenko (URS)	77.92 m	Władysław Nikiciuk (POL)	77.66 m
Hammer throw	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	69.64 m CR	Aleksey Baltovskiy (URS)	66.93 m	Yuriy Bakarinov (URS)	66.57 m
Decathlon	Vasili Kuznetsov (URS)	8026 pts CR	Werner von Moltke (FRG)	8022 pts	Manfred Bock (FRG)	7835 pts

^nb Igor Ter-Ovanesyan's championship record of 7.81 metres, set at the previous edition in 1958, was bettered by all the medalling athletes in 1962. Ter-Ovanesyan's winning jump of 8.19 metres was wind-assisted – although Finns Rainer Stenius and Pentti Eskola cleared 7.85 m, Ter-Ovanesyan's non-wind-assisted jump of 7.82 m in qualification round (13 September) and Ter-Ovanesyan's best non-wind-assisted jump of 7.87 m in final (14 September) were ratified as the new championship marks.^[8]

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres ^[nb2] (wind: +2.3 m/s)	Dorothy Hyman (GBR)	11.3 w	Jutta Heine (FRG)	11.3 w	Teresa Ciepły (POL)	11.4 w
200 metres	Jutta Heine (FRG)	23.5 CR	Dorothy Hyman (GBR)	23.7	Barbara Sobotta (POL)	23.9
400 metres	Maria Itkina (URS)	53.4 CR	Joy Grieveson (GBR)	53.9	Tilly van der Zwaard (NED)	54.4
800 metres	Gerda Kraan (NED)	2:02.8 CR	Waltraud Kaufmann (GDR)	2:05.0	Olga Kazi (HUN)	2:05.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Poland Teresa Ciepły Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka Maria Piątkowska	44.5 CR	West Germany Erika Fisch Martha Pensberger Maren Collin Jutta Heine	44.6	Great Britain Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand	44.9
80 metres hurdles	Teresa Ciepły (POL)	10.6 CR	Karin Balzer (GDR)	10.6	Maria Piątkowska (POL) Erika Fisch (FRG)	10.6
High jump	Iolanda Balaş (ROU)	1.83 m CR	Olga Gere (YUG)	1.76 m	Linda Knowles (GBR)	1.73 m
Long jump	Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)	6.36 m CR	Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)	6.22 m	Mary Rand (GBR)	6.22 m
Shot put	Tamara Press (URS)	18.55 m CR	Renate Garisch (GDR)	17.17 m	Galina Zybina (URS)	16.95 m
Discus throw	Tamara Press (URS)	56.91 m CR	Doris Müller (GDR)	53.60 m	Jolán Kontsek (HUN)	52.82 m
Javelin throw	Elvĩra Ozoliņa (URS)	54.93 m	Maria Diaconescu (ROU)	52.10 m	Alevtina Shastiko (URS)	51.80 m
Pentathlon	Galina Bystrova (URS)	4833 pts CR	Denise Guénard (FRA)	4735 pts	Helga Hoffmann (FRG)	4676 pts

^nb2 The women's 100 metres silver medallist Jutta Heine bettered the championship record twice in qualifying, running 11.5, then 11.4 seconds. Both times were ratified as championship records. In the final Dorothy Hyman and Heine ran 11.3 but this was wind-assisted.^[9]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	13	6	11	30
2	Great Britain	5	3	5	13
3	West Germany	3	5	6	14
4	Poland	3	5	5	13
5	Hungary	2	0	2	4
6	France	2	2	0	4
7	Italy	2	1	1	4
8	East Germany	1	6	1	8
9	Romania	1	2	0	3
10	Finland	1	1	2	4
11	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
12	Belgium	1	1	0	2
13	Sweden	1	1	0	2
14	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
15	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
16	Switzerland	0	0	1	1

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 668 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, two athletes less than the official number of 670 as published.^[10] There was a joint German team comprising athletes from both East and West Germany. Assignment to their respective country was accomplished using the database of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V.^[11]

Austria (9)
Belgium (11)
Bulgaria (21)
Czechoslovakia (25)
Denmark (4)
Finland (29)
France (42)

Germany (96)
- East Germany (50)
- West Germany (46)
Greece (11)
Hungary (40)
Iceland (4)
Ireland (4)
Italy (36)

Liechtenstein (2)
Luxembourg (3)
Malta (1)
Netherlands (8)
Norway (14)
Poland (50)
Portugal (3)
Romania (18)

Soviet Union (74)
Spain (6)
Sweden (18)
Switzerland (16)
Turkey (11)
United Kingdom (74)
Yugoslavia (38)

References

↑ Athletics - European Games Prospects, Glasgow Herald, September 12, 1962, p. 5, retrieved September 1, 2014
↑ European Games - Matthews Wins Gold Medal in Walking - First Event Decided, Glasgow Herald, September 13, 1962, p. 4, retrieved September 1, 2014
↑ Athletics - Miss Hyman's Gold Medal in 100 Metres - European Games Success, Glasgow Herald, September 14, 1962, p. 6, retrieved September 1, 2014
↑ European Games - 400 Metres Gold Medal for Brightwell, Glasgow Herald, September 15, 1962, p. 5, retrieved September 1, 2014
↑ European Games - Marathon Gold Medal for Kilby, Glasgow Herald, September 17, 1962, p. 4, retrieved September 1, 2014
↑ Federation's Approval, Glasgow Herald, September 12, 1962, p. 5, retrieved September 1, 2014
↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 391–397, retrieved 13 August 2014
↑ Main > Men, Long Jump > European Championships Records Progression. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2014-01-04.
↑ Women, 100 m > European Championships Records Progression. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2014-01-04.
↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
↑ Ausgewählte LA-Statistiken der DGLD - deutsche Athleten/Innen: Endkampfteilnahme: OS,WM,EM (in German), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V., retrieved 30 August 2014

Results

"European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
"European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

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