1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus 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
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The men's discus throw at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 12 and 13 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Vladimir Trusenyev Soviet Union
Silver	Cees Koch Netherlands
Bronze	Lothar Milde East Germany

13 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Vladimir Trusenyev	Soviet Union	57.11	CR
	Cees Koch	Netherlands	55.96
	Lothar Milde	East Germany	55.47
4	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	55.13
5	Viktor Kompaniyets	Soviet Union	54.74
6	József Szécsényi	Hungary	54.66
7	Fritz Kühl	East Germany	53.86
8	Carmelo Rado	Italy	52.82
9	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	52.12
10	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	51.01
11	Lars Haglund	Sweden	50.48
12	Đorđe Rakić	Yugoslavia	49.80

12 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	55.79	CR Q
2	Cees Koch	Netherlands	54.72	Q
3	Viktor Kompaniyets	Soviet Union	53.96	Q
4	Vladimir Trusenyev	Soviet Union	53.88	Q
5	József Szécsényi	Hungary	53.38	Q
6	Lars Haglund	Sweden	53.28	Q
7	Đorđe Rakić	Yugoslavia	53.19	Q
8	Todor Artarski	Bulgaria	53.16	Q
9	Lothar Milde	East Germany	53.11	Q
10	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	53.00	Q
11	Fritz Kühl	East Germany	52.86	Q
12	Carmelo Rado	Italy	52.77	Q
13	Dako Radošević	Yugoslavia	52.56
14	Stein Haugen	Norway	52.52
15	Zenon Begier	Poland	52.39
16	Carol Lindroos	Finland	51.96
17	Pentti Repo	Finland	51.83
18	Josef Klik	West Germany	50.95
19	Gaetano dalla Pria	Italy	50.71
20	Ladislav Petrovic	Czechoslovakia	50.28
21	Pierre Alard	France	49.96
22	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	49.49
23	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	48.96
24	Mathias Mehr	Switzerland	47.82
25	Eric Cleaver	Great Britain	47.08
	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	NM
	Franco Grossi	Italy	NM

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

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