1962 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

Events at the 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 women's 800 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Beograd, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 15 and 16 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Gerda Kraan Netherlands
Silver	Waltraud Kaufmann East Germany
Bronze	Olga Kazi Hungary

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Gerda Kraan	Netherlands	2:02.8	AR
02 !	Waltraud Kaufmann	East Germany	2:05.0	NR
03 !	Olga Kazi	Hungary	2:05.0	NR
4	Joy Jordan	United Kingdom	2:05.0	NR
5	Krystyna Nowakowska	Poland	2:05.8	NR
6	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2:07.2

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gerda Kraan	Netherlands	2:06.3	CR Q
2	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2:08.3	Q
3	Phyllis Perkins	United Kingdom	2:08.4
4	Ilse Schönemann	East Germany	2:09.4
5	Gizella Sasvári	Hungary	2:11.1
6	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	2:13.0	NR
7	Elisabeta Teodorof	Romania	2:13.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joy Jordan	United Kingdom	2:07.4	Q
2	Waltraud Kaufmann	East Germany	2:07.7	Q
3	Lyudmila Lysenko	Soviet Union	2:08.4
4	Florica Grecescu	Romania	2:08.8
5	Milica Rajkov	Yugoslavia	2:16.5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olga Kazi	Hungary	2:08.1	Q
2	Krystyna Nowakowska	Poland	2:08.1	Q
3	Tamara Dmitriyeva	Soviet Union	2:08.9
4	Anita Wörner	West Germany	2:09.5
5	Madeline Ibbotson	United Kingdom	2:09.7
6	Jannie van Eyck-Voss	Netherlands	2:11.3
7	Gilda Jannacone	Italy	2:13.6

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

800 metres at the European Athletics Championships

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Women	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016

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