European Athletics Championships 1958/800 m women

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	19 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd (preliminary) August 24th (final)
Medalists
gold	Yelisaveta Yermolayeva ( URS )
silver	Diane Leather ( GBR )
bronze	Dzidra Levicka ( URS )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The women's 800-meter run at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22nd and 24th, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The Soviet runners won two medals with gold and bronze. Jelisaveta Yermolajewa became European champion . She won ahead of the British Diane Leather . Bronze went to Dzidra Levicka.

Records

Existing records

World record	2: 05.0 min	Nina Otkalenko	Zagreb , then Yugoslavia (now Croatia )	September 24, 1955
European record
EM record	2: 08.8 min	Lyudmila Lysenko	EM Bern , Switzerland	Preliminary, August 25, 1954
		Nina Otkalenko		Finale, August 27, 1954

Record improvement

European champion Jelisaveta Jermolajewa improved the existing championship record in the final on August 24th by 2.5 s to 2: 06.3 min.

Preliminary round

August 22, 1958, 3:40 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yelisaveta Yermolayeva	Soviet Union	2: 10.1
2	Joy Jordan	Great Britain	2: 10.5 SB
3	Ariane Döser	Germany	2: 10.7
4th	Krystyna Nowakowska	Poland	2: 10.7 SB
5	Eila Helin	Finland	2: 11.9 PB
6th	Jytte Kort	Netherlands	2: 16.5 PB
7th	Maria Kessels	Belgium	2: 38.5 SB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Diane Leather	Great Britain	2: 09.8
2	Dzidra Levicka	Soviet Union	2: 10.0
3	Beata Żbikowska	Poland	2: 10.2 PB
4th	Margarete Buscher	Germany	2: 11.3 PB
5	Nicole Goullieux	France	2: 11.7 PB
6th	Milica Rajkov	Yugoslavia	2: 13.3 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Betty Loakes	Great Britain	2: 10.6 PB
2	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 10.6
3	Edith Schiller	Germany	2: 10.8
4th	Gül Çıray	Turkey	2: 11.6 PB
5	Aranka Kazi	Hungary	2: 12.1 SB
6th	Saara Vilén	Finland	2: 15.1 PB
DNS	Dumitrescu	Romania

final

August 24, 1958, 2:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yelisaveta Yermolayeva	Soviet Union	2: 06.3 CR
2	Diane Leather	Great Britain	2: 06.6 PB
3	Dzidra Levicka	Soviet Union	2: 06.6 PB
4th	Ariane Döser	Germany	2: 08.2 PB
5	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 08.4 SB
6th	Edith Schiller	Germany	2: 10.2 PB
7th	Beata Żbikowska	Poland	2: 11.0
8th	Betty Loakes	Great Britain	2: 11.4
9	Joy Jordan	Great Britain	2: 11.6

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed May 3, 2019
• Women 800m European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 3, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 3, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 3, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 3, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed May 2, 2019