European Athletics Championships 1962 / Men's discus throw

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	27 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	September 12th (qualification) September 13th (final)
Medalist
gold	Vladimir Trussenjow ( URS )
silver	Cees Koch ( NED )
bronze	Lothar Milde ( GER )

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

The men's discus throw at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 12 and 13, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

European champion was the Soviet EM third from 1958 Vladimir Trussenjow . He won ahead of the Dutchman Cees Koch. Bronze went to the GDR thrower Lothar Milde .

Records

Existing records

World record	62.45 m	Al Oerter	Chicago , USA	July 1, 1962
European record	61.64 m	Vladimir Trussenev	then Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), then the Soviet Union (today Russia )	4th June 1962
EM record	53.92 m	Edmund Piątkowski	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 22, 1958

Record improvement

The existing championship record was improved twice at these European championships:

• 55.79 m - Edmund Piątkowski , qualification on September 12 
• 57.11 m - Vladimir Trussenjow , final on September 13th

qualification

September 12, 1962, 5:50 p.m.

The 27 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 53.00 m. Since only ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 52.77 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	55.79 CR
2	Cees cook	Netherlands	54.72
3	Viktor Kompaniyets	Soviet Union	53.96
4th	Vladimir Trussenev	Soviet Union	53.88
5	József Szécsényi	Hungary	53.38
6th	Lars Haglund	Sweden	53.28 SB
7th	Đorđe Rakić	Yugoslavia	53.19 PB
8th	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	53.16 SB
9	Lothar Milde	Germany	53.11
10	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	53.00 SB
11	Fritz Kühl	Germany	52.86
12	Carmelo Rado	Italy	52.77
13	Dako Radosevic	Yugoslavia	52.56 SB
14th	Stein Haugen	Norway	52.52 PB
15th	Zenon's desire	Poland	52.39 SB
16	Carol Lindroos	Finland	51.96
17th	Pentti Repo	Finland	51.83 SB
18th	Josef Klik	Germany	50.95 PB
19th	Gaetano dalla Pria	Italy	50.71 PB
20th	Ladislav Petrovic	Yugoslavia	50.28 PB
21st	Pierre Alard	France	49.96 PB
22nd	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	49.49 SB
23	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	48.96 PB
24	Mathias More	Switzerland	47.82 PB
25th	Eric Cleaver	Great Britain	47.08 PB
NW	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	without space
	Franco Grossi	Italy

final

Cees Koch, EC tenth in 1958 , was vice European champion

September 13, 1962, 3:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vladimir Trussenev	Soviet Union	57.11 CR
2	Cees cook	Netherlands	55.96
3	Lothar Milde	Germany	55.47 SB
4th	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	55.13
5	Viktor Kompaniyets	Soviet Union	54.74 SB
6th	József Szécsényi	Hungary	54.66
7th	Fritz Kühl	Germany	53.86 SB
8th	Carmelo Rado	Italy	52.82 SB
9	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	52.12
10	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	51.02
11	Lars Haglund	Sweden	50.48
12	Đorđe Rakić	Yugoslavia	49.80

European champion Vladimir Trussenjow had the following series in the final:
57.11 m / 52.28 m / 52.41 m / 56.66 / x / 55.96 m

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  Bronze medalist Lothar Milde

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  Fritz Kühl, EC thirteenth from 1958, finished seventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Men Discus Throw European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 14, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed May 14, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Discus Throw on rfea.es, p. 29 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 14, 2019