European Athletics Championships 1962/800 m men

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 800-meter run
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 13th (preliminary) September 14th (semi-finals) September 15th (final)
Medalist
gold	Manfred Matuschewski ( GER )
silver	Valery Bulischew ( URS )
bronze	Paul Schmidt ( GER )

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

The men's 800-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 was held from September 13 to 15, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

With gold and bronze there were two medals for the all-German team. GDR runner Manfred Matuschewski became European champion . He won before Valeri Bulischew from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to the West German European Championship third from 1958 Paul Schmidt .

Existing records

World record	1: 44.3 min	Peter Snell	Christchurch , New Zealand	3rd February 1962
European record	1: 45.7 min	Roger Moens	Oslo , Norway	3rd August 1955
Championship record	1: 47.1 min	Lajos Szentgáli	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 28, 1954

The European Championship record that has existed since 1954 was not set and not improved at these European championships.

Preliminary round

September 13, 1962

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Norbert Hauptert	Luxembourg	1: 53.0
2	Olavi saloons	Finland	1: 53.3
3	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1: 53.9 SB
	Klaus Widera	Germany	1: 53.9 PB
5	Franz Bucheli	Switzerland	1: 54.2 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sidney Purkis	Great Britain	1: 54.5
2	Paul Schmidt	Germany	1: 55.7
3	Jan Kasal	Czechoslovakia	1: 55.7 SB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Valery Bulishev	Soviet Union	1: 51.0 SB
2	Volker Tulzer	Austria	1: 51.0 SB
3	Francesco Bianchi	Italy	1: 51.3 PB
4th	Gilbert Iundt	France	1: 52.6 PB

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	1: 51.8
2	Manfred Matuschewski	Germany	1: 51.8
3	Trevor Schofield	Great Britain	1: 51.9 PB
4th	Hugo Walser	Liechtenstein	1: 56.8 PB

Forward 5

For Maurice Lurot, after finishing fourth in his preliminary run, it was not enough for the semi-finals

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Abram Kryvosheev	Soviet Union	1: 58.5
2	Tony Harris	Great Britain	1: 58.6
3	Jaromír Šlégr	Czechoslovakia	1: 58.8 PB
4th	Maurice Lurot	France	1: 58.8 SB

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Derek McCleane	Ireland	1: 50.8
2	François Châtelet	France	1: 51.3 SB
3	Alberto Esteban	Spain	1: 51.9 SB
DNF	Joseph Lambrechts	Belgium

Semifinals

September 14, 1962, 8:05 p.m.

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

Run 1

Josef Odložil was eliminated in the semifinals when he was fifth in his race - two years later he was second in the Olympic 1500 meters

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olavi saloons	Finland	1: 51.6
2	Manfred Matuschewski	Germany	1: 51.6
3	Valery Bulishev	Soviet Union	1: 52.1
4th	Norbert Hauptert	Luxembourg	1: 52.2 PB
5	François Châtelet	France	1: 52.2
6th	Sidney Purkis	Great Britain	1: 52.3 PB

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paul Schmidt	Germany	1: 50.0 SB
2	Derek McCleane	Ireland	1: 50.0 SB
3	Abram Kryvosheev	Soviet Union	1: 50.1 SB
4th	Tony Harris	Great Britain	1: 50.2 SB
5	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	1: 51.0 PB
6th	Volker Tulzer	Austria	1: 51.1

final

September 15, 1962, 6:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Manfred Matuschewski	Germany	1: 50.5 SB
2	Valery Bulishev	Soviet Union	1: 51.2
3	Paul Schmidt	Germany	1: 51.2
4th	Olavi saloons	Finland	1: 51.2 SB
5	Derek McCleane	Ireland	1: 51.3
6th	Abram Kryvosheev	Soviet Union	1: 51.5

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  European champion Manfred Matuschewski (center) in a race in the GDR - the sixth Olympic champion from 1960 won his first of two European championship titles

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  Olavi Salonen (left) - in his world record run over 1500 meters in 1957 - reached fourth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 7, 2019
• Men 800m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, 800 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 7, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed May 7, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 800 m Men , p. 11 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on April 23, 2019