European Athletics Championships 1962 / women's high jump

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	14 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 13th (qualification) September 14th (final)
Medalists
gold	Iolanda Balaș ( ROM )
silver	Olga Gere ( YUG )
bronze	Linda Knowles ( GBR )

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

The women's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 was held on September 13 and 14, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

The Romanian defending champion, Olympic champion from 1960 and world record holder Iolanda Balaș became European champion . She won ahead of the Yugoslav Olga Gere. Bronze went to the Briton Linda Knowles .

Records

Existing records

World record	1.91 m	Iolanda Balaș	Sofia , Bulgaria	July 16, 1961
European record
Championship record	1.77 m		EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 21, 1958

Record improvement

European champion Iolanda Balaș improved her own EM record in the final on September 14 by six centimeters to 1.83 m.  

qualification

September 13, 1962

The fourteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.67 m. Since only four 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), whereby the failed attempt rule also came into effect. So finally 1.61 m was enough for the final. It was clear from the start that only two athletes were eliminated.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Iolanda Balaș	Romania	1.67
2	Olga Gere	Yugoslavia	1.67
3	Taissija Tschentschik	Soviet Union	1.67 SB
4th	Linda Knowles	Great Britain	1.67
5	Dorothy Shirley	Great Britain	1.64
6th	Leena Kaarna	Finland	1.64 PB
7th	Jarosława Bieda	Poland	1.64 SB
8th	Heidi Hummel	Germany	1.64 PB
9	Frances Slaap	Great Britain	1.64 SB
10	Doris Walther	Germany	1.61
11	Nel Zwier	Netherlands	1.61 PB
12	Éva Mihályfi	Hungary	1.61 PB
13	Erika Strossenreuther	Germany	1.61
14th	Canel Konvur	Turkey	1.50 PB

final

Iolanda Balaș, the dominant high jumper in those years, won her second European Championship title after Olympic gold in 1960 and a world record

September 14, 1962, 4:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Iolanda Balaș	Romania	1.83 CR
2	Olga Gere	Yugoslavia	1.76 NO
3	Linda Knowles	Great Britain	1.73 SB
4th	Dorothy Shirley	Great Britain	1.67 SB
5	Doris Walther	Germany	1.67 PB
6th	Taissija Tschentschik	Soviet Union	1.64
7th	Jarosława Bieda	Poland	1.64 SBe
8th	Heidi Hummel	Germany	1.64 PBe
9	Frances Slaap	Great Britain	1.64 SBe
10	Nel Zwier	Netherlands	1.61 PBe
	Leena Kaarna	Finland	1.61
12	Éva Mihályfi	Hungary	1.61 PBe

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  Doris Walther, later Doris Langer, reached fifth place

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  Jarosława Bieda (here in 2013) , under her previous name Jarosława Jóźwiakowska Olympic runner-up from 1960, took seventh place

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  Nel Zwier finished in tenth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Women High Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 396 (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, high jump 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. High jump women , accessed May 18, 2019