European Athletics Championships 1958/80 m hurdles for women
| 6th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | 80-meter hurdles for women |
| city |
 Stockholm
|
| Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
| Participants | 14 athletes from 10 countries |
| Competition phase | August 20th (preliminary) August 21st (semi-finals) August 22nd (final) |
| Medalists | |
 gold |
Galina Bystrowa ( URS )
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 silver |
Zenta Kopp ( GER )
 |
 bronze |
Gisela Birkemeyer ( GER )
|
The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held from 20 to 22 August 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.
The German hurdlers won two medals in this competition, silver and bronze. European champion was Galina Bystrowa from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of the German world record holder Zenta Kopp . Bronze went to the Olympic runner-up in 1956, Gisela Birkemeyer , former Gisela Köhler, from the GDR.
Records
Existing records
| World record | 10.6 s |
 Zenta Gastl
|
Frechen , then BR Germany (now Germany ) | July 29, 1956 |
| European record | ||||
| EM record | 11.0 s |
.svg){kind=small} Maria Golubnichaya
|
EM in Bern , Switzerland | August 28, 1954 |
Note:
The world record holder Zenta Gastl started after her marriage - also here at these European championships - under the name Zenta Kopp.
Record setting / improvement
The existing EM record was equalized once and improved once at these European championships.
- Record equalization: 11.0 s - Zenta Kopp , 3rd lead on August 20th
- Record improvement: 10.7 s - Galina Bystrowa , 1st semi-final on August 21
The new EM record holder was the European champion Galina Bystrowa with 10.7 seconds.
Preliminary round
August 20, 1958, 5:35 p.m.
The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.
It is hardly understandable what the organizers thought with this preliminary division. Of the fourteen starters, only two were eliminated. In two preliminary runs, the participants were automatically qualified for the next round if they only reached the finish. Alternatively, it would have been possible without any problems to schedule the qualification races in such a way that the semi-finals are omitted - for example with three preliminary runs from which the first two would have qualified for the final. This would have created a real competitive situation right from the start.
Forward 1
Wind: +0.7 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galina Bystrowa |
Soviet Union
|
11.1 |
| 2 | Marthe Djian |
 France
|
11.2 |
| 3 | Anneliese Karl |
Germany
|
11.5 |
| 4th | Snezhana Zhalova |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
|
11.6 |
Forward 2
Wind: +1.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carole Quinton |
 Great Britain
|
11.1 |
| 2 | Nelli Yelisseyeva |
Soviet Union
|
11.1 |
| 3 | Friedl Murauer |
 Austria
|
11.4 |
Forward 3
Wind: +0.4 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zenta Kopp |
Germany
|
11.0 CRe |
| 2 | Wilf Bakker-Cysouw |
 Netherlands
|
11.5 |
| 3 | Miroslava Trkalová |
 Czechoslovakia
|
11.6 |
Forward 4
Wind: +0.9 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gisela Birkemeyer |
Germany
|
11.1 |
| 2 | Walentyna Maslowska |
Soviet Union
|
11.4 |
| 3 | Maria Musso |
 Italy
|
11.5 |
| 4th | Milka Babović |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
11.6 |
Semifinals
August 21, 1958, 6:10 p.m.
In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Run 1
Wind: +0.7 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galina Bystrowa |
Soviet Union
|
10.7 CR |
| 2 | Zenta Kopp |
Germany
|
10.9 |
| 3 | Wilf Bakker-Cysouw |
Netherlands
|
11.5 |
| 4th | Maria Musso |
Italy
|
11.5 |
| 5 | Friedl Murauer |
Austria
|
11.8 |
| DNF | Marthe Djian |
France
|
Run 2
Wind: +1.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gisela Birkemeyer |
Germany
|
10.8 |
| 2 | Carole Quinton |
Great Britain
|
10.9 |
| 3 | Nelli Yelisseyeva |
Soviet Union
|
11.0 |
| 4th | Walentyna Maslowska |
Soviet Union
|
11.2 |
| 5 | Anneliese Karl |
Germany
|
11.5 |
| 6th | Miroslava Trkalová |
Czechoslovakia
|
11.7 |
final
August 22, 1958, 5:10 p.m.
Wind: +0.4 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galina Bystrowa |
Soviet Union
|
10.9 |
| 2 | Zenta Kopp |
Germany
|
10.9 |
| 3 | Gisela Birkemeyer |
Germany
|
11.0 |
| 4th | Carole Quinton |
Great Britain
|
11.0 |
| 5 | Nelli Yelisseyeva |
Soviet Union
|
11.2 |
| 6th | Wilf Bakker-Cysouw |
Netherlands
|
11.5 |
European champion Galina Bystrova - here in 1973 - had the day before the title in the pentathlon won
The Olympic runner-up in 1956 Gisela Birkemeyer ( right ), former Gisela Köhler, won the bronze medal
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed May 3, 2019
- Women 80m Hurdles European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed on May 3, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 3, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 80 m hurdles 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
- ↑ World Records Progression 80m Hurdles Women , accessed May 2, 2019