# 1962 European 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 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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Claude Piquemal (FRA) | 10.4 | Jocelyn Delecour (FRA) | 10.4 | Peter Gamper (FRG) | 10.4 |
| 200 metres details | Owe Jonsson (SWE) | 20.7 CR | Marian Foik (POL) | 20.8 | Sergio Ottolina (ITA) | 20.8 |
| 400 metres details | Robbie Brightwell (GBR) | 45.9 CR | Manfred Kinder (FRG) | 46.1 | Joachim Reske (FRG) | 46.4 |
| 800 metres details | Manfred Matuschewski (GDR) | 1:50.5 | Valeriy Bulyshev (URS) | 1:51.2 | Paul Schmidt (FRG) | 1:51.2 |
| 1500 metres details | Michel Jazy (FRA) | 3:40.9 CR | Witold Baran (POL) | 3:42.1 | Tomáš Salinger (TCH) | 3:42.2 |
| 5000 metres details | Bruce Tulloh (GBR) | 14:00.6 | Kazimierz Zimny (POL) | 14:01.8 | Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS) | 14:02.6 |
| 10,000 metres details | Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS) | 28:54.0 CR | Friedrich Janke (GDR) | 29:01.6 | Roy Fowler (GBR) | 29:02.0 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Anatoly Mikhailov (URS) | 13.8 | Giovanni Cornacchia (ITA) | 14.0 | Nikolay Berezutskiy (URS) | 14.2 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Salvatore Morale (ITA) | 49.2 CR, WR | Jörg Neumann (FRG) | 50.3 | Helmut Janz (FRG) | 50.5 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Gaston Roelants (BEL) | 8:32.6 CR | Zoltan Vamoș (ROU) | 8:37.6 | Nikolay Sokolov (URS) | 8:40.6 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | 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 details | 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 details | Brian Kilby (GBR) | 2:23:18.8 | Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL) | 2:24:02.0 | Viktor Baykov (URS) | 2:24:19.8 |
| 20 kilometres walk details | 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 details | Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:19:46.6 | Grigoriy Panichkin (URS) | 4:24:35.6 | Donald Thompson (GBR) | 4:29:00.2 |
| High jump details | Valeriy Brumel (URS) | 2.21 m CR | Stig Pettersson (SWE) | 2.13 m | Robert Shavlakadze (URS) | 2.09 m |
| Pole vault details | Pentti Nikula (FIN) | 4.80 m CR | Rudolf Tomášek (TCH) | 4.60 m | Kauko Nyström (FIN) | 4.60 m |
| Long jump details | 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 details | Józef Szmidt (POL) | 16.55 m CR | Vladimir Goryaev (URS) | 16.39 m | Oleg Fyodoseyev (URS) | 16.24 m |
| Shot put details | Vilmos Varjú (HUN) | 19.02 m CR | Viktor Lipsnis (URS) | 18.38 m | Alfred Sosgórnik (POL) | 18.26 m |
| Discus throw details | Vladimir Trusenyev (URS) | 57.11 m CR | Kees Koch (NED) | 55.96 m | Lothar Milde (GDR) | 55.47 m |
| Javelin throw details | Jānis Lūsis (URS) | 82.04 m CR | Viktor Tsybulenko (URS) | 77.92 m | Władysław Nikiciuk (POL) | 77.66 m |
| Hammer throw details | Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) | 69.64 m CR | Aleksey Baltovskiy (URS) | 66.93 m | Yuriy Bakarinov (URS) | 66.57 m |
| Decathlon details | 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.

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details (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 details | Jutta Heine (FRG) | 23.5 CR | Dorothy Hyman (GBR) | 23.7 | Barbara Sobotta (POL) | 23.9 |
| 400 metres details | Maria Itkina (URS) | 53.4 CR | Joy Grieveson (GBR) | 53.9 | Tilly van der Zwaard (NED) | 54.4 |
| 800 metres details | Gerda Kraan (NED) | 2:02.8 CR | Waltraud Kaufmann (GDR) | 2:05.0 | Olga Kazi (HUN) | 2:05.0 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | 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 details | Teresa Ciepły (POL) | 10.6 CR | Karin Balzer (GDR) | 10.6 | Maria Piątkowska (POL) Erika Fisch (FRG) | 10.6 |
| High jump details | Iolanda Balaş (ROU) | 1.83 m CR | Olga Gere (YUG) | 1.76 m | Linda Knowles (GBR) | 1.73 m |
| Long jump details | Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) | 6.36 m CR | Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL) | 6.22 m | Mary Rand (GBR) | 6.22 m |
| Shot put details | Tamara Press (URS) | 18.55 m CR | Renate Garisch (GDR) | 17.17 m | Galina Zybina (URS) | 16.95 m |
| Discus throw details | Tamara Press (URS) | 56.91 m CR | Doris Müller (GDR) | 53.60 m | Jolán Kontsek (HUN) | 52.82 m |
| Javelin throw details | Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS) | 54.93 m | Maria Diaconescu (ROU) | 52.10 m | Alevtina Shastitko (URS) | 51.80 m |
| Pentathlon details | 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.

## 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 |
| 12 | 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) | 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. 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.
* 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)