European Athletics Championships 1958 / women's javelin

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 19 (qualification / final)
Medalists
gold	Dana Zátopková ( TCH )
silver	Birutė Zalogaitytė ( URS )
bronze	Jutta Neumann ( GER )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The women's javelin at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the Czechoslovak Olympic champion from 1952 and defending champion Dana Zátopková , who improved her own European record in the final. She won ahead of Birutė Zalogaitytė , later Birutė Kalėdienė, from the USSR. The German thrower Jutta Neumann won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	57.40 m	Anna Pazera	Cardiff , UK	July 24, 1958
European record	55.73 m	Dana Zátopková	Prague , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	June 1, 1958
EM record	52.91 m		EM in Bern , Switzerland	August 25, 1954

Record improvement

European champion Dana Zátopková improved her own championship record in the final on August 19 by 3.11 m to 56.02 m. At the same time, she increased her European record , which she had set on June 1st of the EM year, by 29 centimeters.  

qualification

August 19, 1958, 3 p.m.

The sixteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 43.00 m. Fourteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the evening of the same day. Only two female throwers were eliminated - a qualification that is probably superfluous in this form.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Almut Brömmel	Germany	49.96 PB
2	Ingrid Almqvist	Sweden	49.49 SB
3	Dana Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	49.29
4th	Birutė Zalogaitytė	Soviet Union	49.14
5	Urszula Figwer	Poland	47.55
6th	Jutta Neumann	Germany	47.02
7th	Eleonora Bogun	Soviet Union	46.95
8th	Liselotte Kipp	Germany	46.85
9	Maria Grabowska	Poland	46.68
10	Irena Starzyńska	Poland	45.11 PB
11	Tamara Tsvetkova	Soviet Union	44.35
12	Averil Williams	Great Britain	43.96
13	Maria Diţi	Romania	43.86
14th	Cmiljka Kalušević	Yugoslavia	43.10
15th	Lise Kock	Denmark	41.60 PB
16	Unn Thorvaldsen	Norway	39.28 PB

final

Dana Zátopková, Olympic champion from 1952 , defended her title with clear superiority and set a new European record

August 19, 1958, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Dana Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	56.02 ER
2	Birutė Zalogaitytė	Soviet Union	51.30
3	Jutta Neumann	Germany	50.50 PB
4th	Eleonora Bogun	Soviet Union	49.88 PB
5	Maria Grabowska	Poland	49.77 PB
6th	Urszula Figwer	Poland	49.48 SB
7th	Maria Diţi	Romania	49.03 SB
8th	Almut Brömmel	Germany	48.85
9	Ingrid Almqvist	Sweden	46.90
10	Liselotte Kipp	Germany	46.89 PB
11	Tamara Tsvetkova	Soviet Union	45.62 PB
12	Cmiljka Kalušević	Yugoslavia	45.42 SB
13	Irena Starzyńska	Poland	45.10
14th	Averil Williams	Great Britain	44.04 PB

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  Vice European Champion Birutė Zalogaitytė - very successful as Birutė Kalėdienė after her marriage

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  Ingrid Almqvist, eighth at the European Championships in 1950 , tenth in 1954 and now in ninth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 5, 2019
• Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 5, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed May 5, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Javelin Women , p. 67 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 5, 2019