European Athletics Championships 1962/100 m men

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	29 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 12th (preliminary / semi-finals) September 13th (final)
Medalist
gold	Claude Piquemal ( FRA )
silver	Jocelyn Delecour ( FRA )
bronze	Peter Gamper ( GER )

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

The men's 100-meter race at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 12 and 13, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

In this competition there was a French double victory. Claude Piquemal became European champion . He won ahead of Jocelyn Delecour . Bronze went to the German runner Peter Gamper .

Records

Existing records

World record	10.0 s	Armin Hary	Zurich , Switzerland	June 21, 1960
		Harry Jerome	Saskatoon , Canada	July 15, 1960
European record		Armin Hary	Zurich , Switzerland	June 21, 1960
Championship record	10.4 s	Orazio Mariani	EM Paris , France	September 3, 1938
		Wil van Beveren
		Jocelyn Delecour	EM Stockholm , Sweden	19th August 1958
		Armin Hary		20th August 1958
		Manfred Germar
		Peter Radford

Note:
The winning time of the 1958 European champion Armin Hary in the final on August 20, 1958, electronically stopped with 10.35 s, is unofficial as a championship record.

Record improvements

Officially, the hand-stopped times applied at that time. Then the European Championship record of 10.4 s was improved by three runners in four races by a tenth of a second to 10.3 s:

•  Marian Foik - 2nd preliminary, September 12th
•  Peter Gamper - 3rd preliminary, September 12th
• Alfred Hebauf - 4th lead, September 12th
•  Peter Gamper - 2nd semi-final, September 12th

Preliminary round

September 12, 1962, 5:25 p.m.

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

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Schumann	Germany	10.4
2	Nikolai Politiko	Soviet Union	10.5
3	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	10.5
4th	Jean-Louis Descloux	Switzerland	10.5
5	Gyula Rábai	Hungary	10.6
6th	Eucharist Agreach	Malta	11.8

Forward 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marian Foik	Poland	10.3 CR
2	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4
3	Guy Lagorce	France	10.6
4th	Veselin Valov	Bulgaria	10.7
DNS	Sergio Ottolina	Italy

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Peter Gamper	Germany	10.3 CRe
2	Jerzy Juskowiak	Poland	10.4
3	Armin Tujakov	Soviet Union	10.5
4th	László Mihályfi	Hungary	10.6
5	Sven Hortewall	Sweden	10.6
6th	Ferruh Oygur	Turkey	11.0

Forward 4

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alfred Hebauf	Germany	10.3 CRe
2	Edvīns Ozoliņš	Soviet Union	10.5
3	Andrzej Zieliński	Poland	10.6
4th	Sven-Åke Lövgren	Sweden	10.7

Forward 5

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.5
2	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	10.6
3	Alf Meakin	Great Britain	10.6
4th	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	10.7

Forward 6

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Claude Piquemal	France	10.5
2	Livio Berruti	Italy	10.5
3	Berwyn Jones	Great Britain	10.5
4th	Owe Jonsson	Sweden	10.5
5	Csaba Csutorás	Hungary	10.6

Semifinals

September 12, 1962, 10:15 a.m.

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

Run 1

The 200-meter Olympic champion from 1960 Livio Berruti (here in 2011) no longer had the great form from the Olympic year and was eliminated in the semi-finals

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alfred Hebauf	Germany	10.4
2	Claude Piquemal	France	10.4
3	Livio Berruti	Italy	10.5
4th	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.5
5	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	10.5
6th	Nikolai Politiko	Soviet Union	23.4

Run 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Peter Gamper	Germany	10.3 CRe
2	Marian Foik	Poland	10.4
3	Guy Lagorce	France	10.5
4th	Andrzej Zieliński	Poland	10.6
5	Armin Tujakov	Soviet Union	10.6
6th	Alf Meakin	Great Britain	10.7

Run 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jerzy Juskowiak	Poland	10.4
2	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.4
3	Heinz Schumann	Germany	10.4
4th	Edvīns Ozoliņš	Soviet Union	10.5
5	Berwyn Jones	Great Britain	10.5
6th	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	10.6

final

September 13, 1962

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Claude Piquemal	France	10.4
2	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.4
3	Peter Gamper	Germany	10.4
4th	Alfred Hebauf	Germany	10.4
5	Jerzy Juskowiak	Poland	10.4
6th	Marian Foik	Poland	10.5

• 

  European Champion Claude Piquemal (left) and Vice European Champion Jocelyn Delecour (center) during a relay race
• 

  Bronze medalist Peter Gamper

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 6, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed on May 6, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 6, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed May 6, 2019