1962 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres

None March 2025 Women's 400 metres European Athletics Championships JNA Stadium Belgrade, Yugoslavia 12 September 1962 (round 1) 13 September 1962 (semi-finals) 14 September 1962 (final) 18 13 53.4 s WR Mariya Itkina URS Joy Grieveson GBR Tilly van der Zwaard NED 1958 1966 The women's 400 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in three rounds at the JNA Stadium in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 12, 13, and 14 September 1962. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 391–397 European Athletics 13 August 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140808114554/http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 8 August 2014 It was the second time that the event was contested at the European Athletics Championships. Eighteen athletes of thirteen nations competed in round 1, thirteen athletes of nine nations continued in the semi-finals, and six athletes from six nations advanced to the final. That final race was won by Mariya Itkina of the Soviet Union in 53.4 seconds, equalling her own world record, with Joy Grieveson of Great Britain and Tilly van der Zwaard of the Netherlands finishing in second and third place respectively. Background + Records before the 1962 European Athletics Championships"World Record Progression of 400 Metres – Female – Senior", World Athletics. Retrieved 27 March 2025. Record Time Time in seconds Athlete (nation) Location Date World record 53.4 h Mariya Itkina URS Krasnodar, Soviet Union 12 September 1959 European record Championship record 53.7 h Stockholm, Sweden 21 August 1958 Results Round 1 Eighteen athletes from thirteen nations competed in four heats of round 1 on 12 September. The three fastest athletes in each heat qualified (Q) for the semi-finals. In the first heat, Evelyne Lebret of France and Libuše Králíčková of Czechoslovakia didn't qualify for the semi-finals, but they set national records (NR) of 56.2 s and 56.3 s respectively. In the third heat, all four athletes advanced to the semi-finals, because Nadja Simic of Yugoslavia and Pam Piercy of Great Britain tied in third place both finishing in 56.5 s. + Results of the first heat of round 1 Rank Name Nation Time Time in seconds Notes 1 Yekaterina Parlyuk URS 1955 54.9 h Q 2 Maeve Kyle IRL 55.1 h Q 3 Vera Kummerfeld FRG 55.7 h Q 4 Evelyne Lebret FRA 56.2 h NR French 5 Libuše Králíčková TCH 56.3 h NR Czechoslovak + Results of the second heat of round 1 Rank Name Nation Time Time in seconds Notes 1 Joy Grieveson GBR 54.8 h Q 2 Bärbel Reinnagel Bärbel Mayer GDR 55.5 h Q 3 Janina Hasse POL 55.7 h Q 4 Vera Mukhanova URS 1955 55.8 h 5 Tsvetana Isaeva BUL 1946 57.1 h + Results of the third heat of round 1 Rank Name Nation Time Time in seconds Notes 1 Mariya Itkina URS 1955 54.4 h Q 2 Tilly van der Zwaard NED 55.4 h Q 3 Nadja Simic SFR Yugoslavia 56.5 h Q 3 Pam Piercy GBR 56.5 h Q + Results of the fourth heat of round 1 Rank Name Nation Time Time in seconds Notes 1 Jean Sorrell GBR 55.5 h Q 2 Helga Henning FRG 55.7 h Q 3 Antónia Munkácsi HUN 1957 55.8 h Q 4 Delma Savorelli ITA 56.9 h Semi-finals Thirteen athletes from nine nations competed in two heats of the semi-finals on 13 September. The three fastest athletes in heat qualified for the final (Q). In the first heat, Tilly van der Zwaard of the Netherlands set a national record (NR Dutch) of 54.6 s. In the second heat, Joy Grieveson of Great Britain and Helga Henning of West Germany set a national records (NR) of 54.2 s and 54.7 s respectively, both qualifying for the final, and Antónia Munkácsi of Hungary and Nadja Simic of Yugoslavia set national records (NR) of 55.3 s and 56.4 s respectively, but they didn't make it to the next round. + Results of the first heat of the semi-finals Rank Name Nation Time Time in seconds Notes 1 Mariya Itkina URS 1955 54.3 h Q 2 Tilly van der Zwaard NED 54.6 h NR Dutch, Q 3 Maeve Kyle IRL 55.4 h Q 4 Bärbel Reinnagel Bärbel Mayer GDR 55.7 h 5 Janina Hasse POL 56.1 h 6 Pam Piercy GBR 57.4 h + Results of the second heat of the semi-finals Rank Name Nation Time Time in seconds Notes 1 Joy Grieveson GBR 54.2 h NR British, Q 2 Yekaterina Parlyuk URS 1955 54.3 h Q 3 Helga Henning FRG 54.7 h NR, Q 4 Antónia Munkácsi HUN 1957 55.3 h NR Hungarian 5 Vera Kummerfeld FRG 55.6 h 6 Nadja Simic SFR Yugoslavia 56.4 h NR 7 Jean Sorrell GBR 56.9 h Final Six athletes from six different nations competed in the final on 14 September. The gold medal was won by Mariya Itkina of the Soviet Union who equalled her world record (WR) of 53.4 s, silver went to Joy Grieveson of Great Britain in a national record (NR British) of 53.9 s, and bronze to Tilly van der Zwaard of the Netherlands in a national record (NR Dutch) of 54.4 s. Outside the medals, Helga Henning of West Germany also set a national record (NR) of 54.6 s. + Results of the final Rank Name Nation Time Time in seconds Notes Mariya Itkina URS 1955 53.4 h Equal toWR Joy Grieveson GBR 53.9 h NR British Tilly van der Zwaard NED 54.4 h NR Dutch 4 Helga Henning FRG 54.6 h NR 5 Yekaterina Parlyuk URS 1955 54.9 h 6 Maeve Kyle IRL 57.5 h References Category:400 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Women's events at the 1962 European Athletics Championships