European Athletics Championships 1962 / women's javelin

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	14 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 13th (qualification) September 14th (final)
Medalists
gold	Elvīra Ozoliņa ( URS )
silver	Maria Diaconescu ( ROM )
bronze	Alewtina Schastitko ( URS )

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

The women's javelin at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 13 and 14, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

With gold and bronze there were two medals for the throwers from the USSR. The European champion was the 1960 Olympic champion and world record holder Elvīra Ozoliņa . The Romanian Maria Diaconescu won the silver medal. Bronze went to Alewtina Schastitko.

Existing records

World record	59.55 m	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Bucharest , Romania	June 4th 1960
European record
EM record	56.02 m	Dana Zátopková	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	19th August 1958

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

September 13, 1962

The fourteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 50.00 m. Since only five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 45.17 m was enough for the final. Only two athletes were eliminated.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	51.60
2	Anneliese Gerhards	Germany	51.15 SB
3	Maria Diaconescu	Romania	50.93
4th	Alevtina Schastitko	Soviet Union	50.55
5	Márta Antál	Hungary	50.50 SB
6th	Inge Schwalbe	Germany	49.96 PB
7th	Marion Graefe	Germany	49.22 SB
8th	Erika Strasser	Austria	47.68
9	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	47.48 SB
10	Marijeta Kacic	Yugoslavia	46.63 PB
11	Sirpa Toivola	Finland	46.45 PB
12	Margarita Baltakova	Bulgaria	45.17 PB
13	Vlasta Hrbková	Czechoslovakia	44.28 SB
14th	Susan Platt	Great Britain	44.17 SB

final

Elvīra Ozoliņa - after a world record and Olympic victory in 1960, now the European Championship title

September 14, 1962, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	54.93 SB
2	Maria Diaconescu	Romania	52.10 SB
3	Alevtina Schastitko	Soviet Union	51.80 PB
4th	Anneliese Gerhards	Germany	50.92
5	Márta Antál	Hungary	49.91
6th	Erika Strasser	Austria	49.90 SB
7th	Inge Schwalbe	Germany	48.55
8th	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	46.74
9	Marijeta Kacic	Yugoslavia	46.29
10	Marion Graefe	Germany	46.28
11	Margarita Baltakova	Bulgaria	44.58
12	Sirpa Toivola	Finland	44.56

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  Márta Antál reached fifth place - in 1964 she won Olympic silver under her new name, Márta Rudas

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  Inge Schwalbe, formerly Inge Günther, came in seventh place

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  Jelena Gortschakowa took eighth place - in 1964 with Olympic bronze after a world record in qualification

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  Marion Gräfe was tenth in this final - four years later she won the European Championship title as Marion Lüttge

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 397 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, women's javelin throw on sportschau.de, accessed on May 18, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed May 18, 2019