European Athletics Championships 1962/800 m women

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	19 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 15th (preliminary) September 16th (final)
Medalists
gold	Gerda Kraan ( NED )
silver	Waltraud Kaufmann ( GER )
bronze	Olga Kazi ( HUN )

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

The 800-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 was held on September 15 and 16, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

The European champion was Gerda Kraan from the Netherlands , who set a new European record in the final. Second place went to GDR runner Waltraud Kaufmann . The Hungarian Olga Kazi won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	2: 01.2 min	Dixie Willis	Perth , Australia	March 3, 1962
European record	2: 04.3 min	Lyudmila Shevtsova	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	3rd July 1960
			Rome , Italy	September 7, 1960
EM record	2: 06.3 min	Yelisaveta Yermolayeva	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

Record improvement

European champion Gerda Kraan equalized the existing championship record once and improved it once:  

• 2: 06.3 min (record equalized) - 1st preroll on September 15th
• 2: 02.8 min (record improved) - final on September 16

With her winning time in the final, Gerda Kraan set a new European record at the same time.

Preliminary round

Lyudmila Lysenko - Olympic champion from 1960 , then under her name Lyudmila Shevtsova - dropped out as third in her preliminary run

Her sixth place in the third run was not enough for Jannie van Eyck-Vos to take part in the final

September 15, 1962, 5:35 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
The preliminary round should actually take place on September 14th, followed by the semi-finals on September 15th. But given the small number of participants, the first round was canceled.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gerda Kraan	Netherlands	2: 06.3 CRe
2	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 08.3
3	Phyllis Perkins	Great Britain	2: 08.4 PB
4th	Ilse Schönemann	Germany	2: 09.4 PB
5	Gizella Sasvári	Hungary	2: 11.1 PB
6th	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	2: 13.0 NO
7th	Elisabeta Teodorof	Romania	2: 13.6 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Joy Jordan	Great Britain	2: 07.4
2	Waltraud Kaufmann	Germany	2: 07.7
3	Lyudmila Lysenko	Soviet Union	2: 08.7 SB
4th	Florica Grecescu	Romania	2: 08.8 PB
5	Milica Rajkov	Yugoslavia	2: 16.5 SB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Kazi	Hungary	2: 08.1
2	Krystyna Nowakowska	Poland	2: 08.1
3	Tamara Dmitrieva	Soviet Union	2: 08.9 PB
4th	Anita Woerner	Germany	2: 09.5 SB
5	Madeline Ibbotson	Great Britain	2: 09.7 PB
6th	Jannie van Eyck-Vos	Netherlands	2: 11.3 PB
7th	Gilda Jannacone	Italy	2: 13.6 PB

final

European champion Gerda Kraan won with a superior European record

September 16, 1962, 5:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gerda Kraan	Netherlands	2: 02.8 ER
2	Waltraud Kaufmann	Germany	2: 05.0 NO
3	Olga Kazi	Hungary	2: 05.0 NO
4th	Joy Jordan	Great Britain	2: 05.0 NO
5	Krystyna Nowakowska	Poland	2: 05.8 NO
6th	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 07.2 SB

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 17, 2019
• Women 800m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 396 (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, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 17, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed May 17, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 800 m Women , p. 52 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 17, 2019 (French / English)