1962 European Athletics Championships
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| 7th European Athletics Championships | |
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| 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 |
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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]
Contents
Medal summary
Complete results were published.[7]
Men
- 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 [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 | Elizabeth 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 | 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 |
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| 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]
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- ↑ 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.
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