1962 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres

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 200 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 14 and 15 September 1962.^[1]

Gold	Jutta Heine  West Germany
Silver	Dorothy Hyman  Great Britain
Bronze	Barbara Sobotta  Poland

15 September Wind: -2.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jutta Heine	West Germany	23.5	CR
	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.7
	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	23.9
4	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.2
5	Valentina Maslovskaya	Soviet Union	24.2
6	Ann Packer	Great Britain	24.4

14 September

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	23.8	CR Q
2	Valentina Maslovskaya	Soviet Union	24.0	Q
3	Ann Packer	Great Britain	24.2	Q
4	Hannelore Raepke	East Germany	24.3
5	Claudette Actis	France	24.5
6	Ida Such	Hungary	25.1

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jutta Heine	West Germany	23.6	CR Q
2	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.7	Q
3	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.3	Q
4	Elżbieta Szyroka	Poland	24.7
5	Donata Govoni	Italy	24.8
6	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	25.0

14 September

Wind: 1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valentina Maslovskaya	Soviet Union	23.8	CR Q
2	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	24.1	Q
3	Hannelore Raepke	East Germany	24.2	Q
4	Michèle Davaze	France	25.3

Wind: 1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.9	Q
2	Claudette Actis	France	24.7	Q
3	Ida Such	Hungary	25.1	Q

Wind: 2.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ann Packer	Great Britain	24.0 w	Q
2	Elżbieta Szyroka	Poland	24.1 w	Q
3	Donata Govoni	Italy	24.4 w	Q
4	Johanna Gaiser	West Germany	24.6 w
5	Renée Enjalbert	France	25.3 w

Wind: 0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jutta Heine	West Germany	24.1	Q
2	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.5	Q
3	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	25.1	Q
4	Therese Schueremans	Belgium	26.5

According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.