European Athletics Championships 1962 / men's triple jump

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's triple jump
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 12th (qualification) September 13th (final)
Medalist
gold	Józef Szmidt ( POL )
silver	Vladimir Goryayev ( URS )
bronze	Oleg Fjodossejew ( URS )

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

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

In this competition, two medals, silver and bronze, went to the Soviet Union. European champion was the Polish Olympic champion from 1960 , defending champion and world record holder Józef Szmidt . He won before the Olympic runner-up in 1960 Vladimir Goryayev . Bronze went to Oleg Fjodossejew .

Records

Existing records

World record	17.03 m	Józef Szmidt	Olsztyn , Poland	5th August 1960
European record
Championship record	16.43 m		EM Stockholm , Sweden	23rd August 1958

Record improvement

European champion Józef Szmidt improved his own EM record in the final on September 13 by twelve centimeters to 16.55 m.  

qualification

With 14.94 m, Karl Thierfelder had no chance of participating in the finals

September 12, 1962, 6:20 p.m.

The 23 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 15.50 m. Since only nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 15.40 m was enough to take part in the finals.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Józef Szmidt	Poland	15.98
2	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	15.86
3	Manfred Hinze	Germany	15.79 SB
4th	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	15.76 SB
5	Oleg Fyodoseyev	Soviet Union	15.68
6th	Radoslav Jocić	Yugoslavia	15.58
7th	Vladimir Goryayev	Soviet Union	15.54
8th	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.53 SB
9	Lyuben Gurgushinov	Bulgaria	15.50
10	Enzo Cavalli	Italy	15.48 PB
11	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	Germany	15.44 SB
12	Odd Bergh	Norway	15.40
13	Witold Krejer	Soviet Union	15.39 SB
14th	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	15.33 SB
15th	Mike Ralph	Great Britain	15.31 PB
16	Eric Battista	France	15.22 SB
17th	Yrjö Tamminen	Finland	15.20 PB
18th	Dodyu Patarinski	Yugoslavia	15.18 SB
19th	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	15.16 SB
20th	Șerban Ciochină	Romania	15.07 SB
21st	Ioan Sorin	Romania	15.06 PB
22nd	Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz	Spain	15.06 PB
23	Karl Thierfelder	Germany	14.94 SB

final

European champion Józef Szmidt mastered the triple jump as a world record holder and Olympic champion in those years

September 13, 1962

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.55 CR
2	Vladimir Goryayev	Soviet Union	16.39 SB
3	Oleg Fyodoseyev	Soviet Union	16.24 SB
4th	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	16.02
5	Radoslav Jocić	Yugoslavia	15.68 NO
6th	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	15.62
7th	Odd Bergh	Norway	15.52 PB
8th	Lyuben Gurgushinov	Bulgaria	15.22
9	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	Germany	15.11
10	Enzo Cavalli	Italy	15.09
11	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.09
12	Manfred Hinze	Germany	13.67

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  Bronze medalist Oleg Fjodosejew - in 1964 he won Olympic silver

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  Hans-Jürgen Rückborn came in ninth place

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  Manfred Hinze, who was still third in the qualification, came twelfth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 13, 2019
• Men Triple Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, triple jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 13, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed May 13, 2019