European Athletics Championships 1962 / women's javelin

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7th European Athletics Championships
Athletics pictogram.svg
discipline Women's javelin throw
city YugoslaviaYugoslavia Belgrade
Stadion Partizan Stadium
Attendees 14 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase September 13th (qualification)
September 14th (final)
Medalists
gold gold Elvīra Ozoliņa ( URS ) Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
Silver medals silver Maria Diaconescu ( ROM ) Romania 1952Romania 
Bronze medals bronze Alewtina Schastitko ( URS ) Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
Panoramic view of the Partizan Stadium 2014 - 52nd years after the European Championships there

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

With gold and bronze there were two medals for the throwers from the USSR. The European champion was the 1960 Olympic champion and world record holder Elvīra Ozoliņa . The Romanian Maria Diaconescu won the silver medal. Bronze went to Alewtina Schastitko.

Existing records

World record 59.55 m Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Elvīra Ozoliņa Bucharest , Romania June 4th 1960
European record
EM record 56.02 m CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Dana Zátopková EM in Stockholm , Sweden 19th August 1958

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

qualification

September 13, 1962

The fourteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 50.00 m. Since only five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 45.17 m was enough for the final. Only two athletes were eliminated.

space Surname nation Width (m)
1 Elvīra Ozoliņa Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 51.60
2 Anneliese Gerhards GermanyGermany Germany 51.15 SB
3 Maria Diaconescu Romania 1952Romania Romania 50.93
4th Alevtina Schastitko Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 50.55
5 Márta Antál Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 50.50 SB
6th Inge Schwalbe GermanyGermany Germany 49.96 PB
7th Marion Graefe GermanyGermany Germany 49.22 SB
8th Erika Strasser AustriaAustria Austria 47.68
9 Jelena Gorchakova Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 47.48 SB
10 Marijeta Kacic YugoslaviaYugoslavia Yugoslavia 46.63 PB
11 Sirpa Toivola FinlandFinland Finland 46.45 PB
12 Margarita Baltakova Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bulgaria 45.17 PB
13 Vlasta Hrbková CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 44.28 SB
14th Susan Platt United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 44.17 SB

final

Elvīra Ozoliņa - after a world record and Olympic victory in 1960, now the European Championship title

September 14, 1962, 4:30 p.m.

space Surname nation Width (m)
1 Elvīra Ozoliņa Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 54.93 SB
2 Maria Diaconescu Romania 1952Romania Romania 52.10 SB
3 Alevtina Schastitko Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 51.80 PB
4th Anneliese Gerhards GermanyGermany Germany 50.92
5 Márta Antál Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 49.91
6th Erika Strasser AustriaAustria Austria 49.90 SB
7th Inge Schwalbe GermanyGermany Germany 48.55
8th Jelena Gorchakova Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 46.74
9 Marijeta Kacic YugoslaviaYugoslavia Yugoslavia 46.29
10 Marion Graefe GermanyGermany Germany 46.28
11 Margarita Baltakova Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bulgaria 44.58
12 Sirpa Toivola FinlandFinland Finland 44.56

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References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed May 18, 2019