European Athletics Championships 1962 / men's long jump

7th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Belgrade
Stadion	Partizan Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 13th (qualification) September 14th (final)
Medalist
gold	Igor Ter-Owanessjan ( URS )
silver	Rainer Stenius ( FIN )
bronze	Pentti Eskola ( FIN )

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

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

Finland won two medals with silver and bronze. The European champion was the Soviet Olympic third from 1960 , defending champion and world record holder Igor Ter-Owanessjan . Second place went to Rainer Stenius. Pentti Eskola won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	8.31 m	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Yerevan , then Soviet Union (now Armenia )	June 10, 1962
European record
Championship record	7.81 m		EM Stockholm , Sweden	20th August 1958

Record improvement

European champion Igor Ter-Owanessjan broke his own EM record five times - first in the qualification with 7.82 m and then in the final with 8.05 m / 8.19 m / 7.85 m / 7.87 m four more times . The sources show that there was wind support of 3.2 m / s during his furthest jump, so that this performance could not be included in the best and record lists. The sources do not tell whether there were regular conditions for his other jumps, with which he exceeded the existing championship record, or whether the tailwind there was also more than 2 m / s.

The widths of 7.85 m each, achieved in the final by medal winners Rainer Stenius and Pentti Eskola , were also better than the existing European Championship record. No wind values ​​are available for these jumps either, but it is stated for both results that they were seasonal bests.

So it is only clear that the championship record of 1958 has been improved. However, who is the new record holder and what the exact width of the new record is cannot be determined with certainty at this point.

qualification

September 13, 1962, 9:00 a.m.

The twenty participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.50 m. Since only six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 7.37 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	7.82
2	Dmytro Bondarenko	Soviet Union	7.67
3	Jorma Valkama	Finland	7.65 SB
4th	Pentti Eskola	Finland	7.62
5	Ali Brakchi	France	7.57 SB
6th	Rainer Stenius	Finland	7.51
7th	Waldemar Gawron	Poland	7.49
8th	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	7.45
9	Klaus Beer	Germany	7.45 PB
10	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	7.41
11	John Howell	Great Britain	7.37
12	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.37 SB
13	Wolfgang Klein	Germany	7.36 SB
14th	Mihai Calnicov	Romania	7.32 PB
15th	Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz	Spain	7.27 SB
16	Pedro de Almeida	Portugal	7.23 PB
17th	John Morbey	Great Britain	7.12 PB
18th	Alain Veron	France	7.09 PB
19th	Pierre Schneidegger	Switzerland	7.06 PB
20th	Bronislav Munjic	Yugoslavia	7.01 PB
DNS	Jan Jakolski	Poland
	Józef Szmidt	Poland

final

Second European Championship title for
Igor Ter-Owanessjan

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

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	8.19 w
2	Rainer Stenius	Finland	7.85 SB
3	Pentti Eskola	Finland	7.85 SB
4th	Dmytro Bondarenko	Soviet Union	7.83 SB
5	Waldemar Gawron	Poland	7.73 PB
6th	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	7.66 PB
7th	Klaus Beer	Germany	7.52 SB
8th	Ali Brakchi	France	7.41
9	John Howell	Great Britain	7.40 PB
10	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	7.33
11	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.33
12	Jorma Valkama	Finland	6.78

European champion Igor Ter-Owanessjan had the following series in the final:
8.05 m / 8.19 m / 7.85 m / x / 7.74 m / 7.87 m.

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  Klaus Beer came in seventh place - at the 1968 Olympic Games he won silver

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  Lynn Davies reached eleventh place - two years later in Tokyo he became an Olympic champion

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  Jorma Valkama, among other things, Olympic Knight from 1956 , was twelfth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 13, 2019
• Men Long Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed May 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1962 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1962, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 13, 2019
• 7th European Athletics Championships 1962 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed May 13, 2019
2. ↑ Men Long Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd on todor66.com, accessed on May 13, 2019
3. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Beograd 1962 on european-athletics.org, accessed on May 13, 2019