European Athletics Championships 1962/4 × 100 m women

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of women
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Participants	8 relays with 32 athletes
Competition phase	September 15th (preliminary) September 16th (final)
Medalists
gold	Poland
silver	Germany
bronze	Great Britain

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

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 was held on September 15 and 16, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

Poland became European champions with Teresa Ciepły , Barbara Sobotta , Elżbieta Szyroka and Maria Piątkowska . The BR Germany relay won the silver medal for the all-German team with the cast of Erika Fisch , Martha Pensberger , Maren Collin and Jutta Heine . Bronze went to Great Britain ( Ann Packer , Dorothy Hyman , Daphne Arden , Mary Rand ).

Records

Existing records

World record	44.3 s	USA ( Willye White , Ernestine Pollards, Vivianne Brown, Wilma Rudolph )	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 15, 1961
European record	44.5 s	Soviet Union ( Wera Krepkina , Walentyna Maslowska , Marija Itkina , Tatjana Schtschelkanowa )
EM record	45.3 s	Soviet Union ( Wera Krepkina , Linda Kepp , Nina Poljakowa, Walentyna Maslowska )	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

Record improvement

The relay of European champions from Poland ( Teresa Ciepły , Barbara Sobotta , Elżbieta Szyroka , Maria Piątkowska ) improved the existing championship record at these European championships twice:

• 45.1 s - 1st preroll, September 15
• 44.5 s - final, September 16

Preliminary round

September 15, 1962, 6:45 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Poland	Teresa Ciepły Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka Maria Piątkowska	45.1 CR
2	Great Britain	Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand	45.4
3	Italy	Donata Govoni Daniela Spampani Letizia Bertoni Nadia Mecocci	46.6
4th	France	Marlène Canguio Renée Enjalbert Claudette Actis Denise Guénard	52.9

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Germany	Erika Fisch Martha Pensberger Maren Collin Jutta Heine	45.5
2	Soviet Union	Ludmilla Motina Walentyna Maslowska Marija Itkina Galina Winogradowa	45.6
3	Yugoslavia	Olga Sikovec Nadja Simic Zdenka Leskovac Draga Stamejčič	46.7
4th	Hungary	Antónia Munkácsi Erzsébet Heldt Teréz Bata Ida Such	47.1

final

September 16, 1962, 6:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Poland	Teresa Ciepły Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka Maria Piątkowska	44.5 ERe
2	Germany	Erika Fisch Martha Pensberger Maren Collin Jutta Heine	44.6 DR
3	Great Britain	Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand	44.9
4th	Yugoslavia	Olga Sikovec Nadja Simic Zdenka Leskovac Draga Stamejčič	46.4
DSQ	Italy	Donata Govoni Daniela Spampani Letizia Bertoni Nadia Mecocci
	Soviet Union	Ludmilla Motina Walentyna Maslowska Marija Itkina Galina Winogradowa

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 17, 2019
• 4x100m Relay European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 3, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 4x100 meters relay European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 397 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 4 × 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 3, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m women , accessed on May 17, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 4 × 100 m Women , p. 70 (PDF, 271 kB), French / English, accessed on May 17, 2019