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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 women's discus throw at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 15 September 1962.

Medalists

Gold	Tamara Press  Soviet Union
Silver	Doris Müller  East Germany
Bronze	Jolán Kontsek  Hungary

Results

Final

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	56.91	CR
	Doris Müller	East Germany	53.60
	Jolán Kontsek	Hungary	52.82
4	Antonina Zolotukhina	Soviet Union	51.78
5	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	51.58
6	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	51.03
7	Kriemhild Hausmann	West Germany	50.16
8	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.15
9	Kazimiera Rykowska	Poland	48.00
10	Verzhinia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	47.91
11	Zyta Mojek	Poland	47.61
12	Judit Bognár	Hungary	47.12

Qualification

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	51.27	Q
2	Kriemhild Hausmann	West Germany	50.70	Q
3	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	50.16	Q
4	Jolán Kontsek	Hungary	49.74	Q
5	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.51	Q
6	Doris Müller	East Germany	49.26	Q
7	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	48.92	Q
8	Verzhinia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	48.67	Q
9	Zyta Mojek	Poland	48.46	Q
10	Antonina Zolotukhina	Soviet Union	48.28	Q
11	Judit Bognár	Hungary	48.26	Q
12	Kazimiera Rykowska	Poland	48.14	Q
13	Dorli Hofrichter	Austria	45.80
14	Lia Manoliu	Romania	45.02
15	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	43.66
16	Sofia Leriou	Greece	41.25
17	Vania Veleva	Bulgaria	39.88
	Hella Ulbricht	East Germany	NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

•  Austria (1)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (2)
•  East Germany (2)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Poland (2)
•  Romania (1)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Great Britain (1)
•  West Germany (1)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 391–397, retrieved 13 August 2014

• Events at the 1962 European Athletics Championships
• Discus throw at the European Athletics Championships
• 1962 in women's athletics