European Athletics Championships 1962 / 10,000 m men

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 10,000-meter run
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	12th September
Medalist
gold	Pyotr Bolotnikov ( URS )
silver	Friedrich Janke ( GER )
bronze	Roy Fowler ( GBR )

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

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 12, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

The European champion was the 1960 Olympic champion and world record holder Pyotr Bolotnikow from the USSR. He won ahead of the GDR runner Friedrich Janke . The Briton Roy Fowler won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	28: 18.2 min	Pyotr Bolotnikov	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	August 11, 1962
European record
EM record	28: 56.0 min	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	19th August 1958

Record improvement

In the final on September 12, European champion Pyotr Bolotnikow improved the championship record by two seconds to 28: 54.0 min.

execution

The competition was held without previous eliminations. All 24 participants started together for the final.

final

Vice European Champion Friedrich Janke - here at a 3000 meter obstacle course

September 12, 1962, 8:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Pyotr Bolotnikov	Soviet Union	28: 54.0 CR
2	Friedrich Janke	Germany	29: 01.6 PB
3	Roy Fowler	Great Britain	29: 02.0 PB
4th	Martin Hyman	Great Britain	29: 02.0 PB
5	Robert Bogey	France	29: 02.6 SB
6th	Leonid Ivanov	Soviet Union	29: 04.8 SB
7th	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia	29: 07.6 SB
8th	Mike Bullivant	Great Britain	29: 13.4 PB
9	Josef Tomáš	Czechoslovakia	29: 22.4 PB
10	Hamida Addeche	France	29: 22.8 PB
11	Constantin Grecescu	Romania	29: 24.4 PB
12	Henri Clerckx	Belgium	29: 31.4 PB
13	Siegfried Rothe	Germany	29: 33.8 PB
14th	Antonio Ambu	Italy	29: 34.6 PB
15th	Şükrü Saban	Turkey	29: 37.4 PB
16	Istvan Ivanovic	Yugoslavia	29: 37.8 PB
17th	Yuri Nikitin	Soviet Union	29: 49.4 SB
18th	Peter Kubicki	Germany	29: 55.8 SB
19th	Magnar Lundemo	Norway	29: 59.4 SB
20th	Janos Pinter	Hungary	30: 20.0 SB
21st	Jerzy Mathias	Poland	30: 31.8 PB
22nd	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	31: 13.4 PB
23	József Sütő	Hungary	31: 39.6 SB
24	Jean Aniset	Turkey	31: 44.8 PB
DNF	Mariano Haro	Spain
	Jim Hogan	Ireland

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  Franc Červan finished fourth

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  Henri Clerckx came in twelfth place

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  Peter Kubicki - eighteenth over 10,000 meters and three days later ninth over 5000 meters

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  Mariano Haro - here in 2012 - did not finish in this race

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 8, 2019
• Men 10000m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 8, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 10,000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 8, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men , accessed May 8, 2019