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Europe Continental championships · since 1934

1962 European Champs

Belgrade, Yugoslavia SR 12–16 Sep 1962

events: 36
medals awarded: 109
nations on the podium: 16
world records: 3

Podiums

Sprints

100m

wind -0.6

1

Claude Piquemal 10.4

2

Jocelyn Delecour 10.4

3

Peter Gamper Competed under FRG (West Germany) 10.4

Sprints

200m

wind 0.0

1

Owe Jonsson CRNR 20.7

2

Marian Foik 20.8

3

Sergio Ottolina 20.8

Sprints

400m

1

Robbie Brightwell CR 45.9

2

Manfred Kinder Competed under FRG (West Germany) 46.1

3

Hans-Joachim Reske CR sets in heats: 46.1 / Competed under FRG (West Germany) CR* 46.4

Middle & long

800m

1

Manfred Matuschewski 1:50.5

2

Valeriy Bulyshev 1:51.2

3

Paul Schmidt Competed under FRG (West Germany) 1:51.2

Middle & long

1500m

1

Michel Jazy 3:40.9

2

Witold Baran 3:42.1

3

Tomas Salinger Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 3:42.2

Middle & long

5000m

1

Bruce Tulloh 14:00.6

2

Kazimierz Zimny 14:01.8

3

Pyotr Bolotnikov CR= in heats: 13.53.4 CR* 14:02.6

Middle & long

10,000m

1

Pyotr Bolotnikov CR 28:54.0

2

Friedrich Janke 29:01.6

3

Roy Fowler 29:02.0

Road

Marathon

1

Brian Kilby 2:23:18

2

Aurele Vandendriessche 2:24:02

3

Viktor Baykov 2:24:19

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

1

Gaston Roelants CR 8:32.6

2

Zoltan Vamoş 8:37.6

3

Nikolay Sokolov 8:40.6

Hurdles

110m hurdles

wind -0.1

1

Anatoliy Mikhailov NR 13.8

2

Giovanni Cornacchia 14.0

3

Nikolay Berezutskiy 14.2

Hurdles

400m hurdles

1

Salvatore Morale CR in heats: 50.0 WR 49.2

2

Jorg Neumann Competed under FRG (West Germany) 50.3

3

Helmut Janz Competed under FRG (West Germany) 50.5

Jumps

High jump

1

Valeriy Brumel CR 2.21

2

Stig Pettersson 2.13

3

Robert Shavlakadze 2.09

Jumps

Pole vault

1

Pentti Nikula CR 4.80

2

Rudolf Tomasek Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 4.60

3

Kauko Nystrom 4.60

Jumps

Long jump

1

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan CR in legal attempts at the final: 7.82 CR* 8.19 w

2

Rainer Stenius 7.85

3

Pentti Eskola 7.85

Jumps

Triple jump

1

Jozef Schmidt CR 16.55

2

Vladimir Goryayev 16.39

3

Oleg Fedoseyev 16.24

Throws

Shot put

1

Vilmos Varju CR 19.02

2

Viktor Lipsnis 18.38

3

Alfred Sosgornik 18.26

Throws

Discus throw

1

Vladimir Trusenyov CR 57.11

2

Kees Koch 55.96

3

Lothar Milde 55.47

Throws

Hammer throw

1

Gyula Zsivotzky CR 69.64

2

Aleksey Baltovskiy 66.93

3

Yuriy Bakarinov 66.57

Throws

Javelin throw

1

Janis Lusis CR 82.04

2

Viktor Tsybulenko 77.92

3

Wladyslaw Nikiciuk 77.66

Race walks

20 km race walk

1

Ken Matthews 1:35:55

2

Hans-Georg Reimann 1:36:15

3

Vladimir Golubnichiy 1:36:38

Race walks

50 km race walk

1

Abdon Pamich 4:19:47

2

Grigoriy Panichkin 4:24:36

3

Donald Thompson 4:29:01

Combined

Decathlon

1

Vasiliy Kuznetsov Updated for 1984 table: 7653 pts CR 8026

2

Werner von Moltke Updated for 1984 table: 7637 pts 8022

3

Manfred Bock Updated for 1984 table: 7562 pts 7835

Relays

4x100m

1

Germany

Klaus Ulonska Peter Gamper Hans-Joachim Bender Manfred Germar

CR=NR 39.5

2

Poland

Jerzy Juskowiak Andrzej Zielinski Zbigniew Syka Marian Foik

CR=NR 39.5

3

Great Britain & NI

Alf Meakin Ron Jones Berwyn Jones David Jones

NR 39.8

Relays

4x400m

1

Germany

Wilfried Kindermann Johannes Schmitt Hans-Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder

CR 3.05.8

2

Great Britain & NI

Barry Jackson Ken Wilcock Adrian Metcalfe Robbie Brightwell

3.05.9

3

Switzerland

Bruno Galliker Jean-Louis Descloux Marius Theiler Hans-Rudi Bruder

NR 3.07.0

Medal table

16 nations · 109 medals

#	Nation				Total	Share
1	Soviet Union URS	13	6	10	29
2	Great Britain & NI GBR	5	3	6	14
3	Germany GER	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	Germany DR (1949-89) 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
13	Sweden SWE	1	1	0	2
14	Czech Republic CZE	0	1	1	2
15	Yugoslavia SR JUG	0	1	0	1
16	Switzerland SUI	0	0	1	1

Records set

3 WR · 27 CR · 1 AR

WR Salvatore Morale 400m hurdles · Men 49.2
WR Mariya Itkina 400m · Women 53.4
WR Tamara Press Shot put · Women 18.55
CR Owe Jonsson 200m · Men 20.7
CR Robbie Brightwell 400m · Men 45.9
CR* Hans-Joachim Reske 400m · Men 46.4
CR* Pyotr Bolotnikov 5000m · Men 14:02.6
CR Pyotr Bolotnikov 10,000m · Men 28:54.0
CR Gaston Roelants 3000m steeplechase · Men 8:32.6
CR Valeriy Brumel High jump · Men 2.21
CR Pentti Nikula Pole vault · Men 4.80
CR* Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Long jump · Men 8.19
CR Jozef Schmidt Triple jump · Men 16.55
CR Vilmos Varju Shot put · Men 19.02
CR Vladimir Trusenyov Discus throw · Men 57.11
CR Gyula Zsivotzky Hammer throw · Men 69.64
CR Janis Lusis Javelin throw · Men 82.04
CR Vasiliy Kuznetsov Decathlon · Men 8026
CR= Germany 4x100m · Men 39.5
CR= Poland 4x100m · Men 39.5
CR Germany 4x400m · Men 3.05.8
CR Jutta Heine 200m · Women 23.5
CR Gerda Kraan 800m · Women 2:02.8
CR= Teresa Wieczorek-Cieply 80m hurdles · Women 10.6
CR= Karin Balzer 80m hurdles · Women 10.6
CR= Erika Fisch 80m hurdles · Women 10.6
CR= Maria Piatkowska 80m hurdles · Women 10.6
CR Iolanda Balaş High jump · Women 1.83
CR Tatyana Shchelkanova Long jump · Women 6.36
CR Tamara Press Discus throw · Women 56.91
AR Poland 4x100m · Women 44.5