European Athletics Championships 1962/200 m men

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	26 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 14th (preliminary) September 15th (semi-finals) September 16th (final)
Medalist
gold	Owe Jonsson ( SWE )
silver	Marian Foik ( POL )
bronze	Sergio Ottolina ( ITA )

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

The men's 200-meter run at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held from September 14 to 16, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

European champion was the Swede Owe Jonsson . Second place went to Marian Foik from Poland . Bronze went to the Italian Sergio Ottolina.

Records

Existing records

World record	20.5 s	Peter Radford - y	Wolverhampton , UK	May 28, 1960
		Stone Johnson	Palo Alto , USA	July 2nd, 1960
		Ray Norton
		Livio Berruti	Olympic Games Rome , Italy	September 3, 1960, semi-finals
				September 3, 1960, final
		Paul Drayton - y	Walnut , USA	June 23, 1962
European record		Livio Berruti	Olympic Games Rome , Italy	September 3, 1960, semi-finals
				September 3, 1960, final
EM record	20.9 s	Heinz Fütterer	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 29, 1954

Note:
The two record runs marked with y took place over 220  yards (= 201.17 m).

Record improvements

The European champion Owe Jonsson improved the existing championship record twice:  

• 20.8 s - 4th lead, September 14th
• 20.7 s - final, September 16

Preliminary round

September 14, 1962, 4:50 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: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Paul Genèvay	France	21.1
2	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.3
3	Edvīns Ozoliņš	Soviet Union	21.4
4th	Andrzej Karcz	Poland	21.5
DNS	Livio Berruti	Italy

Forward 2

Wind: +3.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.0
2	Michael Hildrey	Great Britain	21.4
3	Manfred Germar	Germany	21.6
4th	Jean-Louis Descloux	Switzerland	21.7

As fifth in the sixth preliminary round, Heinz-Georg Kamler retired - here in his later life as an entrepreneur - in the preliminary round

Forward 3

Wind: +5.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marian Foik	Poland	20.9
2	David Jones	Great Britain	20.9
3	Klaus Ulonska	Germany	21.3
4th	Armin Tujakov	Soviet Union	21.8

Forward 4

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Owe Jonsson	Sweden	20.8 CR
2	Jocelyn Delecour	France	20.9
3	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	21.8
4th	Josip Šarić	Yugoslavia	22.1

Klaus Ulonska (here in 2012) was eliminated after finishing third in the second semi-final

Defending champion Manfred Germar (right) was no longer in the top form of previous years and was eliminated in the semifinals as third in his race

Forward 5

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heinz Schumann	Germany	21.0
2	Csaba Csutorás	Hungary	21.1
3	Armando Sardi	Italy	21.6
4th	Josef Trousil	Czechoslovakia	21.7

Forward 6

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrzej Zieliński	Poland	21.2
2	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	21.3
3	László Mihályfi	Hungary	21.3
4th	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	21.4
5	Heinz-Georg Kamler	Austria	21.7
6th	Ferruh Oygur	Turkey	22.1

Semifinals

September 15, 1962, 4:20 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: -3.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Owe Jonsson	Sweden	21.0
2	Heinz Schumann	Germany	21.2
3	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	21.5
4th	Paul Genevay	France	21.7
5	Michael Hildrey	Great Britain	21.8
6th	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	22.1

Run 2

Wind: -3.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marian Foik	Poland	21.1
2	David Jones	Great Britain	21.4
3	Klaus Ulonska	Germany	21.5
4th	Csaba Csutorás	Hungary	21.5
5	Armando Sardi	Italy	21.9
DNF	László Mihályfi	Hungary

Run 3

Wind: –2.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.0
2	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.0
3	Manfred Germar	Germany	21.3
4th	Andrzej Zieliński	Poland	21.5
5	Edvīns Ozoliņš	Soviet Union	21.5
6th	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.6

final

September 16, 1962, 5 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Owe Jonsson	Sweden	20.7 CR
2	Marian Foik	Poland	20.8
3	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	20.8
4th	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.0
5	David Jones	Great Britain	21.0
6th	Heinz Schumann	Germany	21.2

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  Bronze medalist Sergio Ottolina (left)

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  Jocelyn Delecour - fourth over 200 meters and vice European champion over 100 meters

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 6, 2019
• Men 200m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed 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, 200 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. 200m men , accessed May 6, 2019