1962 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Belgrade
place	Round trip through Belgrade
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	September 16, 1962
Medalist
gold	Brian Kilby ( GBR )
silver	Aurèle Vandendriessche ( BEL )
bronze	Viktor Baykow ( URS )

The men's marathon at the 1962 European Athletics Championships took place on September 16, 1962 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia .

The Briton Brian Kilby won the race in 2: 23: 18.8 hours. The Belgian Aurèle Vandendriessche was vice European champion ahead of Viktor Baykow from the Soviet Union.

The two German athletics federations appeared once again as a team at these European championships. In elimination competitions, Bruno Bartholome and Gerhard Hönicke, two athletes from the GDR and Werner Zylka, one from the Federal Republic of Germany, qualified for the European Championship .

Existing records / best performances

World record	Abebe Bikila	2: 15: 16.2 h	Olympic marathon of Rome , Italy	September 10, 1960
European best time	Sergei Popov	2: 15: 17.0 h	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958
Championship record

View of Belgrade

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Result

Silver medalist
Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgium ( as winner of the Boston Marathon 1964 )

Pavel Kantorek, Czechoslovakia - fifth place

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Brian Kilby	Great Britain	2: 23: 18.8 SB
	Aurèle Vandendriessche	Belgium	2: 24: 02.0 SB
	Viktor Baykow	Soviet Union	2: 24: 19.8 PB
04th	Alistair Wood	Great Britain	2: 25: 57.8 SB
05	Pavel Kantorek	Czechoslovakia	2: 26: 54.4 SB
06th	Sergei Popov	Soviet Union	2: 27: 46.8 SB
07th	Thyge Thøgersen	Denmark	2:30: 04.8 SB
08th	Ivan Mustapic	Yugoslavia	2:30: 23.4 PB
09	Stanisław Ożóg	Poland	2:30: 32.2 PB
10	Václav Chudomel	Czechoslovakia	2: 30: 33.0 SB
11	Tenho Salakka	Finland	2: 33: 00.0 PB
12	Eino Oksanen	Finland	2: 33: 40.8 PB
13	Albert Messitt	Ireland	2: 34: 55.2 PB
14th	Franjo Škrinjar	Yugoslavia	2: 36: 14.8 SB
15th	Béla Szalay	Hungary	2: 36: 38.0 SB
16	Bruno Bartholome	Germany	2: 37: 37.6 SB
17th	Gerhard Hönicke	Germany	2: 43: 31.6 SB
18th	Evert Nyberg	Sweden	2: 44: 55.8 PB
19th	Paul Genève	France	2: 45: 08.0 SB
20th	Werner Zylka	Germany	2: 47: 40.0 PB
21st	Guido Vögele	Switzerland	2: 48: 11.6 PB
22nd	Niilo Sorrela	Finland	2: 48: 43.2 PB
	Nikolay Rumyantsev	Soviet Union	DNF
	Ron Hill	Great Britain
	Miguel Navarro	Spain
	Franjo Mihalic	Yugoslavia
	Haydar Erturan	Turkey
	Salvatore Cuccuru	Italy

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  Václav Chudomel, - tenth place

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  Bruno Bartholome, Germany (GDR), on the far left of the photo - sixteen place

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  Gerhard Hönicke, Germany (GDR) - seventeenth place

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  Evert Nyberg, Sweden - eighteenth place

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  Ron Hill, Great Britain - Race Not Finished

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  Miguel Navarro, Spain - Race not finished

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  Franjo Mihalić, Yugoslavia - race not finished

Web links and sources

• Men Marathon European Championships 1962 Belgrade on todor66.com, accessed February 27, 2019
• European Marathon Championships at marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 27, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed February 27, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Marathon Men , p. 14 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on May 9, 2019 (French / English)