European Athletics Championships 1962/1500 m men

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 14th (preliminary) September 16th (final)
Medalist
gold	Michel Jazy ( FRA )
silver	Witold Baran ( POL )
bronze	Tomáš Salinger ( TCH )

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

The men's 1500-meter race at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 14 and 16, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

The French Olympic runner-up in 1960, Michel Jazy , became European champion . Witold Baran from Poland came in second. Third place went to the Czechoslovak Tomáš Salinger.

Existing records

World record	3: 35.6 min	Herb Elliott	OS Rome , Italy	2nd September 1960
European record	3: 38.1 min	Stanislav Jungwirth	Stará Boleslav , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	July 12, 1957
EM record	3: 40.8 min	Olavi Vuorisalo	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

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

Preliminary round

September 14, 1962, 7:10 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Heinz Böthling	Germany	3: 47.4
2	Henk Snepvangers	Netherlands	3: 47.5
3	Mike Berisford	Great Britain	3: 47.6
4th	Ivan Belitsky	Soviet Union	3: 48.3
5	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	3: 48.8 PB
6th	Georgios Mesimertzis	Greece	3: 51.8 PB
DNS	Joseph Lambrechts	Belgium

Forward 2

As in the European Championships
in 1958 , Simo Važić was eliminated in the preliminary stages

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Witold Baran	Poland	3: 44.1
2	Vasily Savinkov	Soviet Union	3: 44.4
3	Werner Krause	Germany	3: 44.8
4th	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	3: 45.5 SB
5	György Kiss	Hungary	3: 45.7 PB
6th	Jean Clausse	France	3: 46.4 PB
7th	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	3: 46.8 PB
8th	William Cornell	Great Britain	3: 49.9 PB
9	Hugo Walser	Liechtenstein	4: 01.8 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Michel Jazy	France	3: 47.4
2	Harald Norpoth	Germany	3: 48.0 SB
3	Tomáš Salinger	Czechoslovakia	3: 48.0
4th	Peter Parsch	Hungary	3: 48.4 SB
5	Stan Taylor	Great Britain	3: 49.9
6th	Rudolf Klaban	Austria	3: 50.0 SB
7th	Tomás Barris	Spain	3: 50.0 SB
8th	Alfredo Rizzo	Italy	4: 00.3 SB

final

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  European champion Michel Jazy (left, in 1963 ahead of Harald Norpoth) won his first major title

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  Henk Snepvangers came in seventh

September 16, 1962, 7:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Michel Jazy	France	3: 40.9 SB
2	Witold Baran	Poland	3: 42.1 SB
3	Tomáš Salinger	Czechoslovakia	3: 42.2 PB
4th	Heinz Böthling	Germany	3: 42.7 PB
5	Werner Krause	Germany	3: 43.8 PB
6th	Vasily Savinkov	Soviet Union	3: 44.2
7th	Henk Snepvangers	Netherlands	3: 44.8 PB
8th	Mike Berisford	Great Britain	3: 45.2 PB
DNF	Harald Norpoth	Germany

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 7, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 7, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed May 7, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 21, 2019 (French / English)