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1962 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's pole vault at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 13 and 15 September 1962.

Just before the meeting, the IAAF council approved the optional use of glass fibre poles.

Medalists

Gold	Pentti Nikula  Finland
Silver	Rudolf Tomášek  Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Kauko Nyström  Finland

Results

Final

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Pentti Nikula	Finland	4.80	CR
	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.60
	Kauko Nyström	Finland	4.60
4	Risto Ankio	Finland	4.55
5	Maurice Houvion	France	4.55
6	Roman Lešek	Yugoslavia	4.55	NR
7	Günter Malcher	East Germany	4.50
8	Manfred Preußger	East Germany	4.50
9	Bernard Balastre	France	4.50
10	Ihor Petrenko	Soviet Union	4.40
11	Petre Astafei	Romania	4.40
12	Kjell Hovik	Norway	4.40
13	Klaus Lehnertz	West Germany	4.30
14	Janusz Gronowski	Poland	4.30

Qualification

13 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Janusz Gronowski	Poland	4.40	Q
	Klaus Lehnertz	West Germany	4.40	Q
	Maurice Houvion	France	4.40	Q
	Günter Malcher	East Germany	4.40	Q
	Kauko Nyström	Finland	4.40	Q
	Ihor Petrenko	Soviet Union	4.40	Q
	Risto Ankio	Finland	4.40	Q
	Kjell Hovik	Norway	4.40	Q
	Roman Lešek	Yugoslavia	4.40	Q
	Bernard Balastre	France	4.40	Q
	Manfred Preußger	East Germany	4.40	Q
	Petre Astafei	Romania	4.40	Q
	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.40	Q
	Pentti Nikula	Finland	4.40	Q
	Gérard Barras	Switzerland	4.30
	Mirko Kuzmanović	Yugoslavia	4.30
	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.30
	Mikael Schie	Norway	4.20
	Franc Rojko	Yugoslavia	4.20
	Reidulv Førde	Norway	4.20
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	4.20
	Valbjörn Þorláksson	Iceland	4.10
	Roland Gras	France	4.00

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  East Germany (2)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (3)
•  Greece (1)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Norway (3)
•  Poland (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Soviet Union (1)
•   Switzerland (1)
•  West Germany (1)
•  Yugoslavia (3)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 391–397, retrieved 13 August 2014
2. Federation's Approval, Glasgow Herald, September 12, 1962, p. 5, retrieved September 1, 2014

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