European Athletics Championships 1962 / men's high jump

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 15 (qualification) September 16 (final)
Medalist
gold	Valery Brumel ( URS )
silver	Stig Pettersson ( SWE )
bronze	Robert Schawlakadse ( URS )

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

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

The high jumpers from the Soviet Union won two medals with gold and bronze. The European champion was the world record holder and Olympic runner-up in 1960, Waleri Brumel . Second place went to the Swedish EM third from 1958, Stig Pettersson . Bronze went to the 1960 Olympic champion Robert Schawlakadze .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.26 m	Valery Brumel	Palo Alto , USA	July 22, 1962
European record
Championship record	2.12 m	Richard Dahl	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

Record improvement

European champion Waleri Brumel improved the existing EM record in the final on September 16 by nine centimeters to 2.21 m.

qualification

September 15, 1962, 10:10 a.m.

The twenty participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.03 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the best placed athletes behind it (highlighted in light green). So finally fourteen participants reached the final with skipped 2.00 m. Two high jumpers who had also mastered 2.00 m were eliminated, as were four other athletes who jumped 1.95 m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	2.03
	Đorđe Majtan	Yugoslavia	2.03
	Edward Czernik	Poland	2.03
	Viktor Bolshov	Soviet Union	2.03
	Robert Schawlakadze	Soviet Union	2.03
	Valery Brumel	Soviet Union	2.03
	Gerd Dührkop	Germany	2.03
8th	Gordon Miller	Great Britain	2.00
	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden	2.00
	Henrik Hellen	Finland	2.00
	Sándor Noszály	Hungary	2.00
	Werner Arrow	Germany	2.00
	Crawford Fairbrother	Great Britain	2.00
	Herbert Hopf	Germany	2.00
15th	Eugene Ducu	Romania	2.00
16	Jón Þordur Ólafsson	Iceland	2.00
17th	Georgi Kumanov	Bulgaria	1.95
18th	Maurice Dugarreau	France	1.95
19th	Piotr Sobotta	Poland	1.95
20th	René Maurer	Switzerland	1.95

final

European champion Waleri Brumel won his first major title after silver at the 1960 Olympic Games

September 16, 1962, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Valery Brumel	Soviet Union	2.21 CR
2	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	2.13
3	Robert Schawlakadze	Soviet Union	2.09
4th	Viktor Bolshov	Soviet Union	2.06
5	Edward Czernik	Poland	2.06
6th	Gerd Dührkop	Germany	2.06
7th	Werner Arrow	Germany	2.03
8th	Đorđe Majtan	Yugoslavia	2.00
9	Sándor Noszály	Hungary	2.00
10	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden	2.00
11	Gordon Miller	Great Britain	2.00
	Henrik Hellen	Finland	2.00
13	Crawford Fairbrother	Great Britain	1.95
14th	Herbert Hopf	Germany	1.95

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  Gerd Dührkop came in sixth place

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  Werner Pfeil finished seventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 12, 2019
• Men High Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 12, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed May 12, 2019