1962 AAA Championships

1962 AAA Championships
Dates	13–14 July 1962
Host city	London, England
Venue	White City Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
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The 1962 AAA Championships was the 1962 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 13 to 14 July 1962 at White City Stadium in London, England. ^{[1] [2]}

Summary

The Championships covered two days of competition. The marathon was held in Welwyn Garden City and the decathlon event was held in Loughborough. The 220 yards hurdles was held for the last time.

Blaine Lindgren won two titles including the last ever 220 yards hurdles event

Jay Silvester won both the discus and shot

Results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	Seraphino Antao	9.8	Peter Radford	9.9	Berwyn Jones	9.9
220 yards	Seraphino Antao	21.1	David Jones	21.4	Len Carter	21.8
440 yards	Robbie Brightwell	45.9 ER	Brian Davis	46.5	Ken Wilcock	47.2
880 yards	Cary Weisiger	1:50.1	Sid Purkis	1:50.3	Tony Harris	1:50.4
1 mile	Stan Taylor	4:04.8	Brian Hall	4:05.0	Ken Smith	4:05.2
3 miles	Bruce Tulloh	13:16.0	Bruce Kidd	13:17.0	Derek Ibbotson	13:23.4
6 miles	Roy Fowler	27:49.8 NR	Mike Bullivant	27:49.8 =NR	Martin Hyman	27:52.0
10 miles	Buddy Edelen	48:31.8	Mel Batty	48:38.0	Gerry North	48:38.2
marathon	Brian Kilby	2:26:15	Alastair Wood	2:26:35	Mel Batty	2:28:10
steeplechase	Maurice Herriott	8:43.8	Dave Chapman	8:46.4	Ernie Pomfret	8:54.0
120y hurdles	Blaine Lindgren	14.2	Laurie Taitt	14.3	Alfred Belleh	14.7
220y hurdles	Blaine Lindgren	23.9	Russ Rogers	24.5	Raymond Barnes	25.1
440y hurdles	Russ Rogers	51.0	Jussi Rintamäki	51.1	Neil MacDonald	51.9
2 miles walk	Ken Matthews	13:59.0	Colin Williams	14:26.2	John Northcott	14:32.0
7 miles walk	Colin Williams	52:15.0	Arthur Thomson	52:47.2	Ray Middleton	53:50.4
high jump	Kuniyoshi Sugioka	2.096	Colin Ridgway	2.032	Crawford Fairbrother	2.007
pole vault	Pentti Nikula	4.65	Dave Tork	4.57	Trevor Burton	4.21
long jump	Jorma Valkama	7.65	John Howell	7.54	Takayuki Okazaki	7.52
triple jump	Tomio Ota	15.66	Koji Sakurai	15.65	Mike Ralph	15.56
shot put	Jay Silvester	18.18	Martyn Lucking	17.55	Hannes Botha	17.28
discus throw	Jay Silvester	60.85	Elfranco Malan	56.71	Carol Lindroos	55.73
hammer throw	Noboru Okamoto	62.19	Howard Payne	61.24	Peter Allday	57.57
javelin throw	John McSorley	79.25 NR	Clive Loveland	71.97	John Kitching	69.74
decathlon	Zlatko Sumich	6237	George McLachlan	6184 NR	John Montgomery	5792

See also

• 1962 WAAA Championships

References

1. "Brightwell runs race of his life in super 440" . Star Green 'un. 14 July 1962. Retrieved 17 July 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
2. "Tulloch the Triumphant" . Sunday Sun (Newcastle). 15 July 1962. Retrieved 17 July 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
4. "White City Results - First Day" . Daily Mirror. 14 July 1962. Retrieved 5 May 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.