European Athletics Championships 1962 / men's javelin
7th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's javelin throw |
city | Belgrade |
Stadion | Partizan Stadium |
Attendees | 25 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | September 14th (qualification) September 15th (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Jānis Lūsis ( URS ) |
silver | Viktor Zybulenko ( URS ) |
bronze | Władysław Nikiciuk ( POL ) |
The men's javelin throw at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 14 and 15, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .
In this competition there was a double victory for the Soviet throwers. Jānis Lūsis was European champion . Second place went to the 1960 Olympic champion Viktor Zybulenko . Bronze went to Władysław Nikiciuk from Poland.
Records
Existing records
World record | 86.74 m | Carlo Lievore | Milan , Italy | June 1, 1961 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 80.18 m | Janusz Sidło | EM Stockholm , Sweden | August 24, 1958 |
Record improvements
The existing EM record has been improved a total of four times:
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Carlo Lievore , qualifying on September 14th
- 80.20 m - 2nd attempt
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Jānis Lūsis , final on September 15th
- 80.40 m - 1st attempt
- 80.65 m - 3rd attempt
- 82.04 m - 6th attempt
qualification
September 14, 1962, 11:10 a.m.
The 25 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 75.00 m. Since only five throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 72.80 m was enough for the final.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | Best width (m) |
1 | Carlo Lievore | Italy | 73.78 | 80.20 | - | 80.20 CR |
2 | Jānis Lūsis | Soviet Union | 71.35 | 79.06 | - | 79.06 |
3 | Viktor Zybulenko | Soviet Union | 72.93 | 78.92 | - | 78.92 SB |
4th | Marian Machowina | Poland | 73.67 | 77.60 | - | 77.60 |
5 | Willy Rasmussen | Norway | 76.80 | - | - | 76.80 SB |
6th | Gergely Kulcsár | Hungary | 68.71 | 74.90 | 71.02 | 74.90 |
7th | Janusz Sidło | Poland | 68.65 | 74.77 | 71.25 | 74.77 |
8th | Hermann Salomon | Germany | 73.47 | 71.82 | 70.31 | 73.47 SB |
9 | Rolf Herings | Germany | 67.68 | 73.34 | x | 73.34 |
10 | Väinö Kuisma | Finland | 68.75 | 72.90 | 73.25 | 73.25 |
11 | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk | Poland | 72.78 | 68.25 | 72.90 | 72.90 |
12 | Petar Galic | Yugoslavia | 69.55 | 67.55 | 72.80 | 72.80 |
13 | Božidar Miletić | Yugoslavia | 68.20 | 72.75 | 70.62 | 72.75 PB |
14th | Horst Bade | Germany | 71.76 | 72.69 | 72.57 | 72.69 PB |
15th | Pauli Nevala | Finland | 72.15 | x | 71.87 | 72.15 |
16 | Franco Radman | Italy | 71.55 | 70.02 | 66.04 | 71.55 SB |
17th | Leon Syrowatsky | France | 71.01 | 64.39 | 64.71 | 71.01 PB |
18th | Alexandru Bizim | Romania | 62.18 | 70.42 | x | 70.42 SB |
19th | Vladimir Kuznetsov | Soviet Union | 65.24 | 69.78 | x | 69.78 |
20th | Michel Macquet | France | 69.22 | x | x | 69.22 SB |
21st | Urs von Wartburg | Switzerland | 64.87 | 65.69 | 68.71 | 68.71 SB |
22nd | Christos Pierrakos | Greece | 61.93 | 66.13 | 67.80 | 67.80 PB |
23 | Gheorghe Popescu | Romania | x | 58.98 | 65.05 | 65.05 PB |
24 | John McSorley | United Kingdom | 58.40 | 64.50 | x | 64.50 PB |
25th | Colin Smith | United Kingdom | 59.12 | 62.68 | 63.85 | 63.85 SB |
DNS | Bayram Kaya | Turkey |
final
September 15, 1962, 5:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) | Best width (m) |
1 | Jānis Lūsis | Soviet Union | 80.40 | 74.49 | 80.65 | 78.25 | 75.00 | 82.04 | 82.04 CR |
2 | Viktor Zybulenko | Soviet Union | 75.74 | 76.39 | 76.57 | 74.80 | x | 77.92 | 77.92 |
3 | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk | Poland | 77.66 | 70.09 | 76.78 | 69.30 | 72.20 | 69.82 | 77.66 SB |
4th | Marian Machowina | Poland | 76.33 | 71.45 | 68.05 | x | 68.29 | 77.15 | 77.15 |
5 | Gergely Kulcsár | Hungary | 74.33 | 72.55 | 76.89 | x | 73.50 | 67.06 | 76.89 SB |
6th | Carlo Lievore | Italy | 75.55 | 76.25 | 70.78 | 71.25 | x | x | 76.25 |
7th | Janusz Sidło | Poland | 73.75 | 72.20 | 75.01 | not in the final of the six best throwers |
75.01 SB | ||
8th | Rolf Herings | Germany | 74.95 | 73.11 | 74.09 | 74.95 SB | |||
9 | Willy Rasmussen | Norway | 74.25 | 71.38 | x | 74.25 | |||
10 | Väinö Kuisma | Finland | 68.50 | 73.32 | 70.32 | 73.32 SB | |||
11 | Petar Galic | Yugoslavia | 70.75 | 73.30 | 68.65 | 73.30 PB | |||
12 | Hermann Salomon | Germany | 70.52 | 72.39 | 72.93 | 72.93 |
Gergely Kulcsár (here in 2013) , third in the European Championship in 1958 , reached sixth place this time - he was later, among others, twice medalist at the Olympic Games
After two EM titles in 1954 and 1958, Janusz Sidło finished seventh this time
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 14, 2019
- Men 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, javelin men 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved May 14, 2019