European Athletics Championships 1962/100 m women

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	19 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 12th (preliminary) September 13th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Dorothy Hyman ( GBR )
silver	Jutta Heine ( GER )
bronze	Teresa Ciepły ( POL )

Panoramic view of the Partizan Stadium 2014 - 52nd years after the European Championships there

The women's 100-meter run at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 12 and 13, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

The British Olympic runner-up from 1960 Dorothy Hyman became European champion . She won over 200 meters Jutta Heine before the German Olympic championship in 1960 . Bronze went to Teresa Ciepły from Poland .

Records

Existing records

World record	11.2 s	Wilma Rudolph	Stuttgart , then FR Germany (now Germany )	July 11, 1961
European record	11.3 s	Wera Krepkina	Kiev , then Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	September 13, 1958
EM record	11.6 s	Heather Young	Semi-finals of the EM in Stockholm , Sweden	August 21, 1958

Record improvements

Vice European Champion Jutta Heine improved the existing championship record twice:  

• 11.5 s - 2nd lead, September 12th
• 11.4s - 1st semifinals, September 13th

The 11.3 seconds achieved in the final by the European Champion Dorothy Hyman and the Vice European Champion Jutta Heine could not be recognized as a record because the tailwind was too strong.   

Preliminary round

September 12, 1962, 12:50 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.

Forward 1

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hannelore Raepke	Germany	11.9
2	Galina Popova	Soviet Union	11.9
3	Erzsébet Heldt	Hungary	12.0
4th	Zdenka Leskovac	Yugoslavia	12.1
5	Michèle Davaze	France	12.2
DNS	Donata Govoni	Italy

Forward 2

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jutta Heine	Germany	11.5 CR
2	Halina Górecka	Poland	11.7
3	Margit Markó	Hungary	11.8
4th	Madeleine Cobb	Great Britain	12.0
5	Therese Schueremans	Belgium	13.0

Forward 3

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.6
2	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.8
3	Ludmilla Motina	Soviet Union	11.9
4th	Daniela Spampani	Italy	12.1
5	Veselina Kolarova	Bulgaria	12.2

Forward 4

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Elżbieta Szyroka	Poland	12.0
2	Martha Pensberger	Germany	12.0
3	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	12.1
4th	Terez Bata	Hungary	12.2

Semifinals

September 13, 1962

Martha Pensberger (third from left in the international match between Germany and the Netherlands in 1961) was eliminated from the semi-finals as fourth of her run

Halina Górecka (left) did not reach the finals with sixth place in her semifinals

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

Run 1

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jutta Heine	Germany	11.4 CR
2	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.6
3	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	11.7
4th	Galina Popova	Soviet Union	11.8
5	Erzsébet Heldt	Hungary	12.0
6th	Margit Markó	Hungary	12.6

Run 2

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.6
2	Elżbieta Szyroka	Poland	11.7
3	Hannelore Raepke	Germany	11.7
4th	Martha Pensberger	Germany	11.8
5	Ludmilla Motina	Soviet Union	11.9
6th	Halina Górecka	Poland	12.0

final

Bronze medalist Teresa Ciepły

September 13, 1962

Wind: +2.3 m / s
Because of the too strong wind support in the final, the times achieved were not ready for the best.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	11.3
2	Jutta Heine	Germany	11.3
3	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.4
4th	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	11.5
5	Hannelore Raepke	Germany	11.6
6th	Elżbieta Szyroka	Poland	11.8

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  Daphne Arden (far left when handing over the baton) took fourth place

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  Hannelore Raepke (on the photo runner with glasses) - in 1958 under her previous name Hannelore Sadau EM - second over 200 meters - came fifth

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  Elżbieta Szyroka - who failed in the semifinals of the 1958 European Championships - came here in sixth place in the final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 14, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed May 2, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 100 m Women on rfea.es, p. 47 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 2, 2019