European Athletics Championships 1958/200 m women

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	26 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd (preliminary / semi-finals) August 23rd (final)
Medalists
gold	Barbara Janiszewska ( POL )
silver	Hannelore Sadau ( GER )
bronze	Marija Itkina ( URS )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The women's 200-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22nd and 23rd, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was Barbara Janiszewska from Poland . The GDR sprinter Hannelore Sadau took second place. Bronze went to the defending champion, European record holder and 400-meter European champion Marija Itkina from the USSR.

Existing records

World record	23.2 s	Betty Cuthbert	Sydney , Australia	September 16, 1956
European record	23.4 s	Marija Itkina	Tashkent , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	October 14, 1956
EM record	23.8 s	Stanisława Walasiewicz	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938

The EM record of 1938 , which has existed since the first European championships in which women took part, remained unchanged this year as well.

Preliminary round

August 22, 1958, 9 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	24.7
2	Nannie Haase	Netherlands	25.0
3	Letizia Bertoni	Italy	25.1
4th	Friedl Murauer	Austria	25.4
5	Alice Merz	Switzerland	27.0

Forward 2

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christa Stubnick	Germany	24.2
2	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	24.5
3	Maria van Kuik	Netherlands	24.8
4th	Danila Costa	Italy	25.2

Forward 3

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Barbara Janiszewska	Poland	24.4
2	Claire Dew	Great Britain	24.7
3	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	25.1
4th	Vivi Markussen	Denmark	25.4
DNS	Giuseppina Leone	Italy

Forward 4

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	June Paul	Great Britain	24.2
2	Inge Fuhrmann	Germany	24.7
3	Linda Kepp	Soviet Union	25.0
4th	Alice Fischer	Switzerland	26.0

Forward 5

Elżbieta Ćmok was eliminated from fourth in their preliminary run

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hannelore Sadau	Germany	24.1
2	Wera Sabelina	Soviet Union	24.3
3	Ulla-Britt Johansson	Sweden	25.3
4th	Elżbieta Ćmok	Poland	25.5
5	Angèle Picado	France	25.6

Forward 6

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Johanna Bloemhof	Netherlands	24.5
2	Micheline Fluchot	France	24.9
3	Ida Németh	Hungary	25.9
4th	Stella Mousouri	Greece	26.3

Semifinals

August 22, 1958, 4:10 p.m.

In each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Celina Jesionowska missed the finals by one place as third in her semi-finals

Her sixth place in the second semifinals was not enough for Olga Šikovec to reach the final

Run 1

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	June Paul	Great Britain	24.0
2	Hannelore Sadau	Germany	24.1
3	Johanna Bloemhof	Netherlands	24.7
4th	Letizia Bertoni	Italy	24.8
5	Ida Németh	Hungary	25.5
DNS	Linda Kepp	Soviet Union

Run 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christa Stubnick	Germany	24.2
2	Wera Sabelina	Soviet Union	24.4
3	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	24.8
4th	Micheline Fluchot	France	25.0
5	Maria van Kuik	Netherlands	25.1
6th	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	25.1

Run 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Barbara Janiszewska	Poland	24.1
2	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	24.2
3	Inge Fuhrmann	Germany	24.8
4th	Claire Dew	Great Britain	24.9
5	Nannie Haase	Netherlands	24.9
6th	Ulla-Britt Johansson	Sweden	25.2

final

European champion Barbara Janiszewska

August 23, 1958, 3:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Barbara Janiszewska	Poland	24.1
2	Hannelore Sadau	Germany	24.3
3	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	24.3
4th	Wera Sabelina	Soviet Union	24.6
5	Christa Stubnick	Germany	25.7
DNF	June Paul	Great Britain

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  Vice European champion Hannelore Sadau - here under her later name Hannelore Raepke as GDR champion 1962 ( second from right )

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  Bronze medalist Marija Itkina - defending champion and here in Stockholm two days earlier European champion over 400 meters

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  The Olympic runner-up from 1956 Christa Stubnick, here in Stockholm also third over 100 meters , came in fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 2, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed on May 2, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 2, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 2, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed May 2, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 200 m Women on rfea.es, p. 49 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 2, 2019