European Athletics Championships 1962 / Women's Shot Put
7th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Shot Put Women |
city | Belgrade |
Stadion | Partizan Stadium |
Attendees | 12 athletes from 7 countries |
Competition phase | 12th September |
Medalists | |
gold | Tamara Press ( URS ) |
silver | Renate Garisch-Culmberger ( GER ) |
bronze | Galina Sybina ( URS ) |
The shot put women at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was on 12 September 1962 at Belgrade's Partizan Stadium discharged.
In this competition, the Soviet shot putters won two medals, gold and bronze. The European champion was the Olympic champion from 1960 , the EM third from 1958 , the discus thrower from 1958 and the world record holder Tamara Press . Second place went to the GDR athlete Renate Garisch-Culmberger . Bronze went to the Olympic champion from 1952 and European champion from 1954 Galina Sybina .
Records
Existing records
World record | 18.55 s | Tamara Press | Leipzig , then GDR (now Germany ) | June 10, 1962 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 15.74 m | Marianne Werner | EM in Stockholm , Sweden | 23rd August 1958 |
Record improvement
European champion Tamara Press improved the championship record on September 12 by 2.81 m to 18.55 m. With this distance, she also equalized her own world record.
execution
With only twelve participants, a qualification was not necessary. All athletes thus entered the final together.
final
September 12, 1962
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Tamara Press | Soviet Union | 18.55 WRe |
2 | Renate Garisch-Culmberger | Germany | 17.17 SB |
3 | Galina Sybina | Soviet Union | 16.95 SB |
4th | Johanna Huebner | Germany | 15.95 PB |
5 | Wilfriede Hoffmann | Germany | 15.75 PB |
6th | Ana Sălăgean | Romania | 15.26 SB |
7th | Ivanka Christowa | Bulgaria | 15.16 SB |
8th | Judit Bognár | Hungary | 14.44 SB |
9 | Maria Chorbova | Bulgaria | 14.33 SB |
10 | Suzanne Allday | Great Britain | 13.85 SB |
11 | Stefania Kiewłeń | Poland | 13.76 PB |
12 | Mary Peters | Great Britain | 13.15 |
Johanna Hübner - second in the Olympics in 1960 and fourth in the European Championship in 1958 (at that time under her former name Johanna Lüttge) - came fourth
Mary Peters (here in 2008) finished twelfth in this final - ten years later she won Olympic gold in the pentathlon
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 18, 2019
- Women Shot Put European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put 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, women's shot put 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed May 18, 2019