European Athletics Championships 1962/400 m women

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400-meter run for women
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	18 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 12th (preliminary) September 13th (semi-finals) September 14th (final)
Medalists
gold	Marija Itkina ( URS )
silver	Joy Grieveson ( GBR )
bronze	Tilly van der Zwaard ( NED )

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

The women's 400-meter run at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held from September 12 to 14, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium . For the second time this competition was part of the EM program. At the Olympic Games, however, the discipline did not appear on the competition calendar until 1964 .

The European champion was the defending champion Marija Itkina from the USSR, who equalized her own world record in the final . She won ahead of the British Joy Grieveson . Bronze went to Tilly van der Zwaard from the Netherlands .

Records

Existing records

World record	53.4 s	Marija Itkina	Krasnodar , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	September 12, 1959
European record
Championship record	53.7 s		EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 21, 1958

Record improvement

In the final on September 14th, Marija Itkina improved her European Championship record to 53.4 seconds, thereby equalizing her own world record.  

Preliminary round

September 12, 1962, 6:10 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. In the third race, two runners placed third together, so that four athletes from this run made it to the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekaterina Parlyuk	Soviet Union	54.9
2	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	55.1
3	Veronika Kummerfeldt	Germany	55.7
4th	Évelyne Lebret	France	56.2 NO
5	Libuše Králíčková	Czechoslovakia	56.3 NO

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Joy Grieveson	Great Britain	54.8
2	Bärbel Reinnagel	Germany	55.5
3	Janina Hasse	Poland	55.7
4th	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	55.8
5	Tsvetana Isayeva	Bulgaria	57.1

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	54.4
2	Tilly van der Zwaard	Netherlands	55.4
3	Nadja Simic	Yugoslavia	56.5
	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	56.5

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jean Sorrell	Great Britain	55.5
2	Helga Henning	Germany	55.7
3	Antónia Munkácsi	Hungary	55.8
4th	Delma Savorelli	Italy	56.9

Semifinals

September 13, 1962

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

Run 1

As fourth of their race, Bärbel Reinnagel was eliminated in the semifinals

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	54.3
2	Tilly van der Zwaard	Netherlands	54.6 NO
3	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	55.4
4th	Bärbel Reinnagel	Germany	55.7
5	Janina Hasse	Poland	56.1
6th	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	57.4

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Joy Grieveson	Great Britain	54.2 NO
2	Ekaterina Parlyuk	Soviet Union	54.3
3	Helga Henning	Germany	54.7 NO
4th	Antónia Munkácsi	Hungary	55.3 NO
5	Veronika Kummerfeldt	Germany	55.6
6th	Nadja Simic	Yugoslavia	56.4 NO
7th	Jean Sorrell	Great Britain	56.9

final

September 14, 1962, 4:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	53.4 WRe
2	Joy Grieveson	Great Britain	53.9 NO
3	Tilly van der Zwaard	Netherlands	54.4 NO
4th	Helga Henning	Germany	54.6 NO
5	Ekaterina Parlyuk	Soviet Union	54.9
6th	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	57.4

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  After her victories in 1954 over 200 meters and in 1958 over 400 meters, European champion Marija Itkina won her third European Championship title, this time with a world record

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  With national records in the semifinals and finals, Tilly van der Zwaard won bronze

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 16, 2019
• Women 400m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed on May 16, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 396 (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, 400 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. 400m women , accessed May 16, 2019