European Athletics Championships 1962 / Women's long jump

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	18 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 14th (qualification) September 15th (final)
Medalists
gold	Tatiana Shchelkanova ( URS )
silver	Elżbieta Krzesińska ( POL )
bronze	Mary Rand ( GBR )

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

The women's long jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 was held on September 14th and 15th, 1962 in Belgrade's Partizan Stadium .

The European champion was the Soviet world record holder Tatiana Shchelkanova . She won before the Polish Olympic champion from 1956 and Olympic runner-up from 1960 Elżbieta Krzesińska . Bronze went to Mary Rand from Great Britain .

Records

Existing records

World record	6.53 m	Tatiana Shchelkanova	Leipzig , then GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1962
European record
Championship record	6.14 m	Liesel Jakobi	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 22, 1958

Record improvements

European champion Tatiana Shchelkanova improved the existing EM record in qualifying on September 14 by 24 centimeters to 6.38 m.

qualification

September 14, 1962, 10:40 a.m.

The eighteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 6.00 m. Since only eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athlete to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 5.98 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tatiana Shchelkanova	Soviet Union	6.38 CR
2	Mary Rand	Great Britain	6.29 SB
3	Hildrun Claus	Germany	6.25 SB
4th	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	6.23 SB
5	Joke Bijleveld	Netherlands	6.22 PB
6th	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.15 SB
7th	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	6.14 SB
8th	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.14 NO
9	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	6.13
10	Bärbel Geissler	Germany	6.11 PB
11	Tatiana Talysheva	Soviet Union	6.05 SB
12	Oddrun Long	Norway	5.98 NO
13	Vera Rozsavölgyi	Hungary	5.96 PB
14th	Orsolya Petró	Hungary	5.86 PB
15th	Berit Berthelsen	Norway	5.81 SB
16	Maija Koivusaari	Finland	5.80 PB
17th	Halina Krzyżańska	Poland	5.76 PB
18th	Magaly Vettorazzo	Italy	5.17 SB

final

World record holder Tatiana Shchelkanova - European champion in the long jump

September 15, 1962, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tatiana Shchelkanova	Soviet Union	6.36
2	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	6.22 SB
3	Mary Rand	Great Britain	6.22
4th	Joke Bijleveld	Netherlands	6.21
5	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	6.19
6th	Hildrun Claus	Germany	6.12
7th	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	5.98
8th	Bärbel Geissler	Germany	5.95
9	Tatiana Talysheva	Soviet Union	5.92
10	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	5.83
11	Oddrun Long	Norway	5.82
12	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	5.78

Information about the series in the final is available for two participants:

• Tatyana Shchelkanova, European Champion - x / 6.02 m / 6.36 m / 6.10 m / 6.04 m / 6.23 m
• Joke Bijleveld, 4th place - 5.84 m / 5.93 m / 6.21 m / 5.67 m / 5.83 m /?

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  Vice European Champion Elżbieta Krzesińska (here in 2008) - Third in the European Championship in 1954 , Olympic Champion in 1956 and Olympic  Second in 1960

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  Bronze medalist Mary Rand - 1964 Olympic champion

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  The 1960 Olympic seventh Joke Bijleveld came fourth - in 1964 she was fifth

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  Hildrun Claus reached sixth place - as Hildrun Laufer, she was Olympic seventh in 1964

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  Bärbel Geißler, later Bärbel Löhnert, took eighth place

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  Viorica Viscopoleanu was tenth - in 1968 she jumped to Olympic victory with a world record

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  Eleventh placed Oddrun Lange, later Oddrun Hokland - here as a hurdler

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 18, 2019
• Women Long Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Long Jump 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, long jump women 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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed May 18, 2019