European Athletics Championships 1962/200 m women

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 14th (preliminary / semi-finals) September 15th (final)
Medalists
gold	Jutta Heine ( GER )
silver	Dorothy Hyman ( GBR )
bronze	Barbara Sobotta ( POL )

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

The women's 200-meter run at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 14 and 15, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

In the final, the two first-placed runners in the 100-meter final swapped the order. The German Olympic runner-up in 1960 and European record holder Jutta Heine became European champion . The British Olympic runner-up in 1960 over 100 meters Dorothy Hyman won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Polish defending champion Barbara Sobotta , who was European champion four years ago under her former name Barbara Janiszewska.

Records

Existing records

World record	22.9 s	Wilma Rudolph	Corpus Christi , USA	July 9, 1960
European record	23.3 s	Jutta Heine	Malmo , Sweden	August 13, 1962
EM record	23.8 s	Stanisława Walasiewicz	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938

Record settings / record improvements

The existing EM record was equalized twice and improved twice at these European championships:

• Equalizations - 23.8 s:
  • Walentyna Maslowska , 1st preliminary on September 14th
  •  Barbara Sobotta , 1st semi-final on September 14th
• Improvements:
  • 23.6 s - Jutta Heine , 2nd semi-final on September 14th 
  • 23.5 s - Jutta Heine , final on September 15 

Preliminary round

September 14, 1962, 4:00 p.m.

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

The preliminary divisions are hardly comprehensible in retrospect. Only four athletes were eliminated. Particularly noteworthy was the second race, in which only three runners were at the start who just had to somehow get to the finish in order to progress.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	23.8 CRe
2	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	24.1
3	Hannelore Raepke	Germany	24.2
4th	Michèle Davaze	France	25.3

Forward 2

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.9
2	Claudette Actis	France	24.7
3	Ida Such	Hungary	25.1

Forward 3

Wind: +2.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ann Packer	Great Britain	24.0
2	Elżbieta Szyroka	Poland	24.1
3	Donata Govoni	Italy	24.4
4th	Johanna Gaiser	Germany	24.6
5	Renée Enjalbert	France	25.3

Forward 4

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jutta Heine	Germany	24.1
2	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.5
3	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	25.1
4th	Therese Schueremans	Belgium	26.5

Semifinals

September 14, 1962, 8:25 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	23.8 CRe
2	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	24.0
3	Ann Packer	Great Britain	24.2
4th	Hannelore Raepke	Germany	24.3
5	Claudette Actis	France	24.5
6th	Ida Such	Hungary	25.1

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jutta Heine	Germany	23.6 CR
2	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.7
3	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.3
4th	Elżbieta Szyroka	Poland	24.7
5	Donata Govoni	Italy	24.8
6th	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	25.0

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  The vice European champion from 1958 and 100 meters fifth here in Belgrade Hannelore Raepke (here victorious runner with glasses) failed this time as fourth of her run in the semifinals

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  Elżbieta Szyroka, sixth over 100 meters , did not reach the finals in fourth in her semi-finals

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  Fifth place in the second semi-final was not enough for Donata Govoni to take part in the final

• 

  Like four years earlier, Olga Šikovec was eliminated in the semi-finals

After winning an Olympic silver in 1960 and a European record, Jutta Heine has now become European champion

final

September 1962, 4:40 p.m.

Wind: −2.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jutta Heine	Germany	23.5 CR
2	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.7
3	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	23.9
4th	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.2
5	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	24.2
6th	Ann Packer	Great Britain	24.4

• 

  Defending champion Barbara Sobotta won bronze

• 

  Daphne Arden (far left when handing over the baton) took fourth place

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  Ann Packer - 1964 Olympic champion over 800 meters - finished sixth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 16, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 16, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 395 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 16, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 16, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed May 16, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 200 m Women on rfea.es, p. 49 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 16, 2019