1962 European Athletics Championships

Template:Infobox Athletics Championships 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. 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.

Medal summary

Complete results were published.

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	10.4	Template:Flagathlete	10.4	Template:Flagathlete	10.4
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	20.7 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	20.8	Template:Flagathlete	20.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	45.9 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	46.1	Template:Flagathlete	46.4
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	1:50.5	Template:Flagathlete	1:51.2	Template:Flagathlete	1:51.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	3:40.9 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	3:42.1	Template:Flagathlete	3:42.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	14:00.6	Template:Flagathlete	14:01.8	Template:Flagathlete	14:02.6
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	28:54.0 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	29:01.6	Template:Flagathlete	29:02.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	13.8	Template:Flagathlete	14.0	Template:Flagathlete	14.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	49.2 Template:AthAbbr, WR	Template:Flagathlete	50.3	Template:Flagathlete	50.5
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	8:32.6 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	8:37.6	Template:Flagathlete	8:40.6
Template:AthleticsLink	Klaus Ulonska Peter Gamper Hans-Joachim Bender Manfred Germar	39.5 Template:AthAbbr	Jerzy Juskowiak Andrzej Zieliński Zbigniew Syka Marian Foik	39.5	Template:GBR2 Alf Meakin Ron Jones Berwyn Jones David Jones	39.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Wilfried Kindermann Johannes Schmitt Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder	3:05.8 Template:AthAbbr	Template:GBR2 Barry Jackson Ken Wilcock Adrian Metcalfe Robbie Brightwell	3:05.9	Bruno Galliker Jean-Louis Descloux Marius Theiler Hans-Rüdi Bruder	3:07.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	2:23:18.8	Template:Flagathlete	2:24:02.0	Template:Flagathlete	2:24:19.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	1:35:54.8	Template:Flagathlete	1:36:14.2	Template:Flagathlete	1:36:37.6
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	4:19:46.6	Template:Flagathlete	4:24:35.6	Template:Flagathlete	4:29:00.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	2.21 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	2.13 m	Template:Flagathlete	2.09 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	4.80 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	4.60 m	Template:Flagathlete	4.60 m
Template:AthleticsLink[nb]	Template:Flagathlete	8.19 m (Template:AthAbbr) (7.87 m Template:AthAbbr)	Template:Flagathlete	7.85 m	Template:Flagathlete	7.85 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	16.55 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	16.39 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.24 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	19.02 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	18.38 m	Template:Flagathlete	18.26 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	57.11 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	55.96 m	Template:Flagathlete	55.47 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	82.04 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	77.92 m	Template:Flagathlete	77.66 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	69.64 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	66.93 m	Template:Flagathlete	66.57 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	8026 pts Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	8022 pts	Template:Flagathlete	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.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink[nb2] (wind: +2.3 m/s)	Template:Flagathlete	11.3 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	11.3 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	11.4 Template:AthAbbr
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	23.5 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	23.7	Template:Flagathlete	23.9
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	53.4 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	53.9	Template:Flagathlete	54.4
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	2:02.8 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	2:05.0	Template:Flagathlete	2:05.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Teresa Ciepły Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka Maria Piątkowska	44.5 Template:AthAbbr	Erika Fisch Martha Pensberger Maren Collin Jutta Heine	44.6	Template:GBR2 Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand	44.9
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	10.6 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	10.6	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete	10.6
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	1.83 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	1.76 m	Template:Flagathlete	1.73 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	6.36 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	6.22 m	Template:Flagathlete	6.22 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	18.55 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	17.17 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.95 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	56.91 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	53.60 m	Template:Flagathlete	52.82 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	54.93 m	Template:Flagathlete	52.10 m	Template:Flagathlete	51.80 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	4833 pts Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	4735 pts	Template:Flagathlete	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.

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. 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.

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References

Results

External links

• European Athletics
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