1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 12, 13, and 14 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Salvatore Morale	Italy	49.2	WR
	Jörg Neumann	East Germany	50.3
	Helmut Janz	West Germany	50.5
4	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	50.8
5	Boris Kryunov	Soviet Union	51.3
6	Vasyl Anisimov	Soviet Union	54.2

13 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Salvatore Morale	Italy	50.0	CR Q
2	Jörg Neumann	East Germany	50.6	Q
3	Boris Kryunov	Soviet Union	50.9	Q
4	Edmond Van Praagh	France	51.3	NR
5	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	51.3
6	Joachim Singer	East Germany	51.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vasyl Anisimov	Soviet Union	51.0	Q
2	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	51.0	Q
3	Helmut Janz	West Germany	51.1	Q
4	Georgiy Chevychalov	Soviet Union	51.6
5	Chris Surety	Great Britain	52.0
6	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	52.8

12 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Helmut Janz	West Germany	51.0	Q
2	Boris Kryunov	Soviet Union	51.7	Q
3	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	52.0	Q
4	Helmut Haid	Austria	52.7
5	Hannu Ehoniemi	Finland	52.8
6	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	54.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Salvatore Morale	Italy	51.4	Q
2	Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	52.4	Q
3	Chris Surety	Great Britain	52.8	Q
4	Dimitar Dimitrov	Bulgaria	53.1
5	François Van Cauwenbergh	Belgium	53.5
6	Athanasios Mylonopoulos	Greece	54.9

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Edmond Van Praagh	France	51.4	NR Q
2	Georgiy Chevychalov	Soviet Union	52.0	Q
3	Joachim Singer	East Germany	52.0	Q
4	John Cooper	Great Britain	52.4
5	Zdzisław Kumiszcze	Poland	52.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vasyl Anisimov	Soviet Union	51.8	Q
2	Bruno Galliker	Switzerland	52.2	Q
3	Jörg Neumann	East Germany	52.8	Q
4	Robin Woodland	Great Britain	53.1
5	Jan Gulbrandsen	Norway	53.8

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.