European Athletics Championships 1962 / Women's discus throw

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	18 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 15 (qualification / final)
Medalists
gold	Tamara Press ( URS )
silver	Doris Müller ( GER )
bronze	Jolán Kontsek ( HUN )

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

The women's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 was held on September 15, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

The European champion was the defending champion, Olympic runner-up in 1960 and world record holder Tamara Press , who won her second gold at these European championships after the shot put . She won ahead of the GDR thrower Doris Müller . Bronze went to the Hungarian Jolán Kontsek .

Records

Existing records

World record	58.98 m	Tamara Press	London , UK	20th September 1961
European record
Championship record	52.31 m		EM in Stockholm , Sweden	August 22, 1958

Record improvement

European champion Tamara Press improved her own EM record in the final on September 15 by 4.60 m to 56.91 m.  

qualification

September 15, 1962, 9:00 a.m.

The eighteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 48.00 m. Since exactly twelve athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further.

Lia Manoliu - the greatest success of her long career, the Olympic gold medal in 1968 - was eliminated from the qualification with 45.02 m

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	51.27
2	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	50.70
3	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	50.16
4th	Jolán Kontsek	Hungary	49.74
5	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.56 SB
6th	Doris Müller	Germany	49.21
7th	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	48.92
8th	Wirginia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	48.67 SB
9	Zyta Mojek	Poland	48.46 PB
10	Antonina Solotuchina	Soviet Union	48.28
11	Judit Bognár	Hungary	48.26 SB
12	Kazimiera Rykowska	Poland	48.40 PB
13	Dorli court judge	Austria	45.80 SB
14th	Lia Manoliu	Romania	45.02 SB
15th	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	43.66 SB
16	Sofia Leriou	Greece	41.25 PB
17th	Vanya Weleva	Bulgaria	39.88 PB
NM	Hella Ulbricht	Germany

final

September 15, 1962, 3:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	56.91 CR
2	Doris Müller	Germany	53.60 PB
3	Jolán Kontsek	Hungary	52.82 PB
4th	Antonina Solotuchina	Soviet Union	51.78 SB
5	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	51.58 SB
6th	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	51.03 SB
7th	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	50.16
8th	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.15
9	Kazimiera Rykowska	Poland	48.00
10	Wirginia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	47.91
11	Zyta Mojek	Poland	47.61
12	Judit Bognár	Hungary	47.12

European champion Tamara Press had the following series in the final; 49.85 m / 56.91 m / 50.09 m / x / 56.47 m / 54.88 m

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  Third European Championship title for Tamara Press - world record holder and Olympic runner-up in 1960 - in the disciplines of the shot put and discus throw

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  Vice European Champion Doris Müller

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Women Discus Throw European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 396f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 18, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed on May 18, 2019