European Athletics Championships 1962/800 m women
7th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's 800-meter run |
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Stadion | Partizan Stadium |
Attendees | 19 athletes from 10 countries |
Competition phase | September 15th (preliminary) September 16th (final) |
Medalists | |
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Gerda Kraan ( NED )
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Waltraud Kaufmann ( GER )
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Olga Kazi ( HUN )
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The 800-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 was held on September 15 and 16, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .
The European champion was Gerda Kraan from the Netherlands , who set a new European record in the final. Second place went to GDR runner Waltraud Kaufmann . The Hungarian Olga Kazi won the bronze medal.
Records
Existing records
World record | 2: 01.2 min |
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Perth , Australia | March 3, 1962 |
European record | 2: 04.3 min |
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Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia ) | 3rd July 1960 |
Rome , Italy | September 7, 1960 | |||
EM record | 2: 06.3 min |
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EM Stockholm , Sweden | August 24, 1958 |
Record improvement
European champion Gerda Kraan equalized the existing championship record once and improved it once:
- 2: 06.3 min (record equalized) - 1st preroll on September 15th
- 2: 02.8 min (record improved) - final on September 16
With her winning time in the final, Gerda Kraan set a new European record at the same time.
Preliminary round
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September 15, 1962, 5:35 p.m.
The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
The preliminary round should actually take place on September 14th, followed by the semi-finals on September 15th. But given the small number of participants, the first round was canceled.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Gerda Kraan |
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2: 06.3 CRe |
2 | Vera Mukhanova |
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2: 08.3 |
3 | Phyllis Perkins |
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2: 08.4 PB |
4th | Ilse Schönemann |
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2: 09.4 PB |
5 | Gizella Sasvári |
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2: 11.1 PB |
6th | Maeve Kyle |
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2: 13.0 NO |
7th | Elisabeta Teodorof |
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2: 13.6 PB |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Joy Jordan |
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2: 07.4 |
2 | Waltraud Kaufmann |
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2: 07.7 |
3 | Lyudmila Lysenko |
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2: 08.7 SB |
4th | Florica Grecescu |
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2: 08.8 PB |
5 | Milica Rajkov |
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2: 16.5 SB |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Olga Kazi |
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2: 08.1 |
2 | Krystyna Nowakowska |
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2: 08.1 |
3 | Tamara Dmitrieva |
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2: 08.9 PB |
4th | Anita Woerner |
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2: 09.5 SB |
5 | Madeline Ibbotson |
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2: 09.7 PB |
6th | Jannie van Eyck-Vos |
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2: 11.3 PB |
7th | Gilda Jannacone |
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2: 13.6 PB |
final
September 16, 1962, 5:35 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Gerda Kraan |
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2: 02.8 ER |
2 | Waltraud Kaufmann |
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2: 05.0 NO |
3 | Olga Kazi |
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2: 05.0 NO |
4th | Joy Jordan |
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2: 05.0 NO |
5 | Krystyna Nowakowska |
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2: 05.8 NO |
6th | Vera Mukhanova |
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2: 07.2 SB |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 17, 2019
- Women 800m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 17, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 396 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 17, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 17, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 17, 2019
- 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 17, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed May 17, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 800 m Women , p. 52 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 17, 2019 (French / English)