1962 European Athletics Championships
International athletics championship event
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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 meet, the IAAF council approved the use of glass fibre poles for pole vaulting. As a consequence, competitors were able to use them during the meet if they wished.[6]
| 7th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | 12 – 16 September |
| Host city | Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| Venue | JNA Stadium |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 36 |
| Participation | 670 athletes from 29 nations |
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 |  Zoltan Vamoș (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 |  SwitzerlandBruno 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 |
Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS) | 54.93 m | Maria Diaconescu (ROU) | 52.10 m | Alevtina Shastitko (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 (URS) | 13 | 6 | 10 | 29 |
| 2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 3 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 14 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Switzerland (SUI) | 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)
