European Athletics Championships 1962 / men's hammer throw

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 15 (qualification) September 16 (final)
Medalist
gold	Gyula Zsivótzky ( HUN )
silver	Alexei Baltowski ( URS )
bronze	Yuri Bakarinov ( URS )

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

The men's hammer throw at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 15 and 16, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

In this competition, two medals went to the USSR, silver and bronze. The Hungarian European record holder and Olympic runner-up in 1960 Gyula Zsivótzky became European champion . He won ahead of Alexei Baltowski. Yuri Bakarinov won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	70.67 m	Hal Connolly	Palo Alto , USA	July 21, 1962
European record	69.58 m	Gyula Zsivótzky	Budapest , Hungary	September 8, 1956
Championship record	64.78 m	Tadeusz Ruth	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 21, 1958

Record improvement

European champion Gyula Zsivótzky improved the existing EM record at these European championships twice:  

• 66.17 m - qualification, September 15
• 69.64 m - final, September 16

With his victory distance, Zsivótzky also increased his own European record by six centimeters.

The EC fifth from 1958 Zvonko Bezjak was 59.79 m not enough for the final

Sverre Strandli, among other things European champion from 1950 and ex-world record holder, missed the final by sixteen centimeters

qualification

September 15, 1962, 11:40 a.m.

The twenty participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Since only eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athlete to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.94 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	66.17 CR
2	Yuri Bakarinov	Soviet Union	64.49
3	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	63.35 SB
4th	Heinrich Thun	Austria	63.02
5	Alexei Baltowski	Soviet Union	62.92
6th	Martin Lotz	Germany	62.39 SB
7th	Vasily Rudenkow	Soviet Union	62.34
8th	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	62.34
9	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	62.27
10	Manfred Losch	Germany	62.24 SB
11	Hans Fahsl	Germany	62.10
12	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	61.94
13	Sverre Strandli	Norway	61.78
14th	Kalevi Horppu	Finland	60.99 PB
15th	Vasil Krumov	Bulgaria	60.71 PB
16	Birger Asplund	Sweden	60.15 SB
17th	Zvonko Bezjak	Yugoslavia	59.79 SB
18th	Rajmund Niwiński	Poland	59.53 PB
19th	Josef Málek	Czechoslovakia	59.15 PB
20th	Hansruedi Jost	Switzerland	57.95 PB

final

The defending champion and Olympic third party from 1960 Tadeusz Rut reached eighth place

September 16, 1962, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	69.64 ER
2	Alexei Baltowski	Soviet Union	66.93 PB
3	Yuri Bakarinov	Soviet Union	66.57 PB
4th	Heinrich Thun	Austria	65.23 SB
5	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	64.34 SB
6th	Vasily Rudenkow	Soviet Union	63.94 SB
7th	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	63.52 SB
8th	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	62.95 SB
9	Hans Fahsl	Germany	62.30 SB
10	Manfred Losch	Germany	62.09
11	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	60.64
12	Martin Lotz	Germany	58.84

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  Manfred Losch came in tenth place

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  Twelfth place Martin Lotz

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed on 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, men's hammer throw 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. Hammer Throw Men , accessed May 14, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Hammer Throw on rfea.es, p. 31 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 14, 2019