European Athletics Championships 1962/80 m hurdles for women

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	80-meter hurdles for women
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 14th (preliminary) September 15th (semi-finals) September 16th (final)
Medalists
gold	Teresa Ciepły ( POL )
silver	Karin Balzer ( GER )
bronze	Maria Piątkowska ( POL )
	Erika Fisch ( GER )

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

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held from September 14 to 16, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

In this competition, two hurdlers were tied in third place. Poland received two medals, gold and bronze. The all-German team also won two medals with silver and bronze. European champion was Teresa Ciepły . She won ahead of the GDR runner Karin Balzer . The two bronze medals went to Maria Piątkowska from Poland and Erika Fisch from Germany .

Records

Existing records

World record	10.5 s	Gisela Birkemeyer	Leipzig , then GDR (now Germany )	July 24, 1960
		Betty Moore	Kassel , then BR Germany (now Germany )	August 25, 1962
European record		Gisela Birkemeyer	Leipzig , then GDR (now Germany )	July 24, 1960
		Betty Moore	Kassel , then BR Germany (now Germany )	August 25, 1962
EM record	10.7 s	Galina Bystrowa	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	August 21, 1958

Record settings / improvements

At these European championships there were three equalizations and four improvements to the existing championship record.

• Record leveling - 10.7 s:
  •  Erika Fisch , 2nd run on September 14th
  • Galina Bystrowa , 2nd preliminary on September 14th
  •  Teresa Ciepły , 3rd run on September 14th
• Record improvements - 10.6 s in the final on September 16:
  •  Teresa Ciepły , European Champion
  •  Karin Balzer , Vice European Champion
  •  Maria Piątkowska , bronze medalist
  •  Erika Fisch , bronze medalist

Preliminary round

September 14, 1962

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

How these preliminary divisions could come about and why a preliminary round with subsequent semi-finals was even scheduled for only sixteen participants is incomprehensible. Two of the preliminary runs were occupied by five athletes, two of whom were eliminated. In each of the other two preliminary round races, only three hurdlers started who only had to reach the finish in order to qualify for the next round. None of them dropped out.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maria Piątkowska	Poland	10.8
2	Dorothy Window	Great Britain	11.1
3	Letizia Bertoni	Italy	11.1

Forward 2

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Erika fish	Germany	10.7 CRe
2	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	10.7 CRe
3	Nina Hansen	Denmark	11.4
DNS	Terry Schueremans	Belgium

Forward 3

Pat Nutting, later Pat Pryce, was eliminated as fifth in her race in the preliminaries

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	10.7 CRe
2	Rimma Koscheljowa	Soviet Union	10.9
3	Marlène Canguio	France	10.9 NO
4th	Ingrid Schlundt	Germany	11.0
5	Pat Nutting	Great Britain	11.1

Forward 4

Wind: +2.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karin Balzer	Germany	10.9
2	Draga Stamejčič	Yugoslavia	11.0
3	Halina Krzyżańska	Poland	11.0
4th	Ann Charlesworth	Great Britain	11.3
5	Canel Konvur	Turkey	12.7

Semifinals

September 15, 1962, 4:00 p.m.

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

Run 1

As sixth of their semi-finals, it was not enough for Draga Stamejčič to make it to the finals

Wind: -3.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maria Piątkowska	Poland	11.0
2	Erika fish	Germany	11.0
3	Rimma Koscheljowa	Soviet Union	11.1
4th	Dorothy Window	Great Britain	11.3
	Letizia Bertoni	Italy	11.3
6th	Draga Stamejčič	Yugoslavia	11.6

Run 2

Wind: -3.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	11.2
2	Karin Balzer	Germany	11.3
3	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	11.4
4th	Marlène Canguio	France	11.4
5	Halina Krzyżańska	Poland	11.5
DNS	Nina Hansen	Denmark

European champion Teresa Ciepły - two years later Olympic runner-up

final

September 16, 1962, 4:40 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Teresa Ciepły	Poland	10.6 CR / NR
2	Karin Balzer	Germany	10.6 CR / DR
3	Maria Piątkowska	Poland	10.6 CR / NR
	Erika fish	Germany	10.6 CR / DR
5	Rimma Koscheljowa	Soviet Union	10.8
6th	Galina Bystrowa	Soviet Union	10.8

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  In this extremely close decision, Karin Balzer became Vice European Champion - in 1964 she won Olympic gold in Tokyo

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  Bronze medalist Maria Piątkowska

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  Erika Fisch also won bronze (center of picture with 96 on the jersey)

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  The defending champion Galina Bystrowa - here in 1973 - came in sixth place in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 17, 2019
• Women 80m Hurdles European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 80 m hurdles 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, 80 m hurdles 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

1. ↑ ^{a b} World Records Progression 80 m Hurdles Women , accessed May 17, 2019