1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

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

The men's hammer throw at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Beograd, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 15 and 16 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary
Silver	Aleksey Baltovskiy  Soviet Union
Bronze	Yuriy Bakarinov  Soviet Union

Results

Final

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	69.64	AR
	Aleksey Baltovskiy	Soviet Union	66.93
	Yuriy Bakarinov	Soviet Union	66.57
4	Heinrich Thun	Austria	65.23
5	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	64.34
6	Vasiliy Rudenkov	Soviet Union	63.94
7	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	63.52
8	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	62.95
9	Hans Fahsl	West Germany	62.30
10	Manfred Losch	East Germany	62.09
11	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	60.64
12	Martin Lotz	East Germany	58.84

Qualification

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	66.17	CR Q
2	Yuriy Bakarinov	Soviet Union	64.49	Q
3	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	63.35	Q
4	Heinrich Thun	Austria	63.02	Q
5	Aleksey Baltovskiy	Soviet Union	62.92	Q
6	Martin Lotz	East Germany	62.39	Q
7	Vasiliy Rudenkov	Soviet Union	62.34	Q
8	Josef Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	62.34	Q
9	Olgierd Ciepły	Poland	62.27	Q
10	Manfred Losch	East Germany	62.24	Q
11	Hans Fahsl	West Germany	62.10	Q
12	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	61.94	Q
13	Sverre Strandli	Norway	61.78
14	Kalevi Horppu	Finland	60.99
15	Vasil Krumov	Bulgaria	60.71
16	Birger Asplund	Sweden	60.15
17	Zvonko Bezjak	Yugoslavia	59.79
18	Rajmund Niwiński	Poland	59.53
19	Josef Málek	Czechoslovakia	59.15
20	Hansruedi Jost	Switzerland	57.95

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References