European Athletics Championships 1962 / men's javelin

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 14th (qualification) September 15th (final)
Medalist
gold	Jānis Lūsis ( URS )
silver	Viktor Zybulenko ( URS )
bronze	Władysław Nikiciuk ( POL )

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

The men's javelin throw at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held on September 14 and 15, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

In this competition there was a double victory for the Soviet throwers. Jānis Lūsis was European champion . Second place went to the 1960 Olympic champion Viktor Zybulenko . Bronze went to Władysław Nikiciuk from Poland.

Records

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Carlo Lievore	Milan , Italy	June 1, 1961
European record
Championship record	80.18 m	Janusz Sidło	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

Record improvements

The existing EM record has been improved a total of four times:

•  Carlo Lievore , qualifying on September 14th
  • 80.20 m - 2nd attempt
•  Jānis Lūsis , final on September 15th
  • 80.40 m - 1st attempt
  • 80.65 m - 3rd attempt
  • 82.04 m - 6th attempt

qualification

September 14, 1962, 11:10 a.m.

The 25 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 75.00 m. Since only five throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 72.80 m was enough for the final.

Pauli Nevala - two years later Olympic champion - retired with 72.15 m in the qualification

68.71 m were not enough for Urs von Wartburg to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Carlo Lievore	Italy	73.78	80.20	-	80.20 CR
2	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	71.35	79.06	-	79.06
3	Viktor Zybulenko	Soviet Union	72.93	78.92	-	78.92 SB
4th	Marian Machowina	Poland	73.67	77.60	-	77.60
5	Willy Rasmussen	Norway	76.80	-	-	76.80 SB
6th	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	68.71	74.90	71.02	74.90
7th	Janusz Sidło	Poland	68.65	74.77	71.25	74.77
8th	Hermann Salomon	Germany	73.47	71.82	70.31	73.47 SB
9	Rolf Herings	Germany	67.68	73.34	x	73.34
10	Väinö Kuisma	Finland	68.75	72.90	73.25	73.25
11	Wladyslaw Nikiciuk	Poland	72.78	68.25	72.90	72.90
12	Petar Galic	Yugoslavia	69.55	67.55	72.80	72.80
13	Božidar Miletić	Yugoslavia	68.20	72.75	70.62	72.75 PB
14th	Horst Bade	Germany	71.76	72.69	72.57	72.69 PB
15th	Pauli Nevala	Finland	72.15	x	71.87	72.15
16	Franco Radman	Italy	71.55	70.02	66.04	71.55 SB
17th	Leon Syrowatsky	France	71.01	64.39	64.71	71.01 PB
18th	Alexandru Bizim	Romania	62.18	70.42	x	70.42 SB
19th	Vladimir Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	65.24	69.78	x	69.78
20th	Michel Macquet	France	69.22	x	x	69.22 SB
21st	Urs von Wartburg	Switzerland	64.87	65.69	68.71	68.71 SB
22nd	Christos Pierrakos	Greece	61.93	66.13	67.80	67.80 PB
23	Gheorghe Popescu	Romania	x	58.98	65.05	65.05 PB
24	John McSorley	United Kingdom	58.40	64.50	x	64.50 PB
25th	Colin Smith	United Kingdom	59.12	62.68	63.85	63.85 SB
DNS	Bayram Kaya	Turkey

final

September 15, 1962, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	80.40	74.49	80.65	78.25	75.00	82.04	82.04 CR
2	Viktor Zybulenko	Soviet Union	75.74	76.39	76.57	74.80	x	77.92	77.92
3	Wladyslaw Nikiciuk	Poland	77.66	70.09	76.78	69.30	72.20	69.82	77.66 SB
4th	Marian Machowina	Poland	76.33	71.45	68.05	x	68.29	77.15	77.15
5	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	74.33	72.55	76.89	x	73.50	67.06	76.89 SB
6th	Carlo Lievore	Italy	75.55	76.25	70.78	71.25	x	x	76.25
7th	Janusz Sidło	Poland	73.75	72.20	75.01	not in the final of the six best throwers			75.01 SB
8th	Rolf Herings	Germany	74.95	73.11	74.09				74.95 SB
9	Willy Rasmussen	Norway	74.25	71.38	x				74.25
10	Väinö Kuisma	Finland	68.50	73.32	70.32				73.32 SB
11	Petar Galic	Yugoslavia	70.75	73.30	68.65				73.30 PB
12	Hermann Salomon	Germany	70.52	72.39	72.93				72.93

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  European champion Jānis Lūsis - here in 2011 - became one of the most successful javelin throwers in athletics history

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  Gergely Kulcsár (here in 2013) , third in the European Championship in 1958 , reached sixth place this time - he was later, among others, twice medalist at the Olympic Games

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  After two EM titles in 1954 and 1958, Janusz Sidło finished seventh this time

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 14, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved May 14, 2019