1962 European Athletics Championships
7th European Athletics Championships | |
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Dates | 12 – 16 September |
Host city | Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
Venue | JNA Stadium |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
Events | 36 |
Participation | 670 athletes from 29 nations |
← 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 meet, the IAAF council approved the use glass fibre poles for pole vaulting. As a consequence, competitors were able to use them during the meet if they wished.[6]
Medal summary
Complete results were published.[7]
Men
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres details | ![]() | 10.4 | ![]() | 10.4 | ![]() | 10.4 |
200 metres details | ![]() | 20.7 CR | ![]() | 20.8 | ![]() | 20.8 |
400 metres details | ![]() | 45.9 CR | ![]() | 46.1 | ![]() | 46.4 |
800 metres details | ![]() | 1:50.5 | ![]() | 1:51.2 | ![]() | 1:51.2 |
1500 metres details | ![]() | 3:40.9 CR | ![]() | 3:42.1 | ![]() | 3:42.2 |
5000 metres details | ![]() | 14:00.6 | ![]() | 14:01.8 | ![]() | 14:02.6 |
10,000 metres details | ![]() | 28:54.0 CR | ![]() | 29:01.6 | ![]() | 29:02.0 |
110 metres hurdles details | ![]() | 13.8 | ![]() | 14.0 | ![]() | 14.2 |
400 metres hurdles details | ![]() | 49.2 CR, WR | ![]() | 50.3 | ![]() | 50.5 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | ![]() | 8:32.6 CR | ![]() | 8:37.6 | ![]() | 8:40.6 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | ![]() Klaus Ulonska Peter Gamper Hans-Joachim Bender Manfred Germar | 39.5 CR | ![]() Jerzy Juskowiak Andrzej Zieliński Zbigniew Syka Marian Foik | 39.5 | ![]() Alf Meakin Ron Jones Berwyn Jones David Jones | 39.8 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | ![]() Wilfried Kindermann Johannes Schmitt Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder | 3:05.8 CR | ![]() Barry Jackson Ken Wilcock Adrian Metcalfe Robbie Brightwell | 3:05.9 | ![]() Bruno Galliker Jean-Louis Descloux Marius Theiler Hans-Rüdi Bruder | 3:07.0 |
Marathon details | ![]() | 2:23:18.8 | ![]() | 2:24:02.0 | ![]() | 2:24:19.8 |
20 kilometres walk details | ![]() | 1:35:54.8 | ![]() | 1:36:14.2 | ![]() | 1:36:37.6 |
50 kilometres walk details | ![]() | 4:19:46.6 | ![]() | 4:24:35.6 | ![]() | 4:29:00.2 |
High jump details | ![]() | 2.21 m CR | ![]() | 2.13 m | ![]() | 2.09 m |
Pole vault details | ![]() | 4.80 m CR | ![]() | 4.60 m | ![]() | 4.60 m |
Long jump details[nb] | ![]() | 8.19 m (+3.2) (7.87 m CR) | ![]() | 7.85 m | ![]() | 7.85 m |
Triple jump details | ![]() | 16.55 m CR | ![]() | 16.39 m | ![]() | 16.24 m |
Shot put details | ![]() | 19.02 m CR | ![]() | 18.38 m | ![]() | 18.26 m |
Discus throw details | ![]() | 57.11 m CR | ![]() | 55.96 m | ![]() | 55.47 m |
Javelin throw details | ![]() | 82.04 m CR | ![]() | 77.92 m | ![]() | 77.66 m |
Hammer throw details | ![]() | 69.64 m CR | ![]() | 66.93 m | ![]() | 66.57 m |
Decathlon details | ![]() | 8026 pts CR | ![]() | 8022 pts | ![]() | 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 | |||
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100 metres details[nb2] (wind: +2.3 m/s) | ![]() | 11.3 w | ![]() | 11.3 w | ![]() | 11.4 w |
200 metres details | ![]() | 23.5 CR | ![]() | 23.7 | ![]() | 23.9 |
400 metres details | ![]() | 53.4 CR | ![]() | 53.9 | ![]() | 54.4 |
800 metres details | ![]() | 2:02.8 CR | ![]() | 2:05.0 | ![]() | 2:05.0 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | ![]() Teresa Ciepły Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka Maria Piątkowska | 44.5 CR | ![]() Erika Fisch Martha Pensberger Maren Collin Jutta Heine | 44.6 | ![]() Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand | 44.9 |
80 metres hurdles details | ![]() | 10.6 CR | ![]() | 10.6 | ![]() ![]() | 10.6 |
High jump details | ![]() | 1.83 m CR | ![]() | 1.76 m | ![]() | 1.73 m |
Long jump details | ![]() | 6.36 m CR | ![]() | 6.22 m | ![]() | 6.22 m |
Shot put details | ![]() | 18.55 m CR | ![]() | 17.17 m | ![]() | 16.95 m |
Discus throw details | ![]() | 56.91 m CR | ![]() | 53.60 m | ![]() | 52.82 m |
Javelin throw details | ![]() | 54.93 m | ![]() | 52.10 m | ![]() | 51.80 m |
Pentathlon details | ![]() | 4833 pts CR | ![]() | 4735 pts | ![]() | 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 |
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1 | ![]() | 13 | 6 | 10 | 29 |
2 | ![]() | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
5 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
7 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
8 | ![]() | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
9 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
10 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
11 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
12 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
14 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
15 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
16 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (16 entries) | 36 | 36 | 37 | 109 |
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)
Great Britain (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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