European Athletics Championships 1969

9th European Athletics Championships
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
participating countries	29
Participating athletes	over 900
Competitions	38
World records	7th
opening	16th September 1969
Closing ceremony	September 21, 1969
Opened by	TBA
timeline
← Budapest 1966	Helsinki 1971 →

Medal table  (final result after 38 decisions)
space	country
1	GDR	11	7th	7th	25th
2	Soviet Union	9	7th	8th	24
3	Great Britain	6th	4th	7th	17th
4th	France	3	4th	-	7th
5	Czechoslovakia	2	1	2	5
6th	Poland	2	-	5	7th
7th	Hungary	1	2	-	3
8th	Switzerland	1	1	1	3
9	Italy	1	-	3	4th
10	Austria	1	-	1	2
Complete medal table

The 9th European Athletics Championships took place from 16 to 21 September 1969 in Piraeus near Athens . With the exception of the marathon and walking competitions , the competitions were held at the Karaiskakis Stadium .

Competitions

There were 24 disciplines for men and 14 for women. New on the women's program were the 1500-meter run and the 4-by-400-meter relay . The distance of the women's hurdles has also been changed. The discipline was now held as a 100-meter hurdles instead of over 80 meters as before.

Attendees

More than 900 athletes from 29 countries had registered. The GDR team consisted of a total of 62 active players, 37 men and 25 women, who won the most European championship titles and were also ahead in the total number of medals.

Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany did not start at these European championships, with the exception of the relay teams. The reason was the case of the middle and long-distance runner Jürgen May , who had fled the GDR and was not allowed to start because he had moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic less than three years ago. Formally, the change of association was decisive, even if the German team management under its chairman Max Danz took the position that May had changed within Germany. The active members of the German team voted and decided against the will of the team management for a boycott.

Athletic performance

• Seven new world records were set at this event:
  • Anatolij Bondarchuk , Soviet Union - hammer : 74.68 m
  • Jaroslava Jehličková , Czechoslovakia - 1500 meters : 4: 10.7 min
  • Nicole Duclos , France - 400 meters : 51.73 p
  • 4 x 400 meter relay for women:
    • BR Germany - 3: 33.9 min (lead time)
    • Great Britain - 3: 30.8 min (final, first place)
    • France - 3: 30.8 min (final, second place)
  • Nadeschda Tschischowa , Soviet Union - shot put : 20.43 m
• One athlete won three gold medals at these championships:
  • Petra Vogt ( GDR ) - 100 meters , 200 meters , 4 x 100 meter relay
• One athlete won two gold medals:
  • Lillian Board (Great Britain) - 800 meters , 4 by 400 meters relay
• Seven of the European champion from 1969 had previously EM won -Titel:
  • Jānis Lūsis (Soviet Union) - javelin throw , third success in a row since 1962
  • Igor Ter-Owanesjan (Soviet Union) - long jump , third success after 1958 and 1962
  • Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) - pole vault , repetition of his success from 1966
  • Jürgen Haase (GDR) - 10,000 meters , repetition of his 1966 success
  • Eddy Ottoz ( Italy ) - 110 meter hurdles , repetition of his 1966 success
  • Karin Balzer (GDR) - hurdles sprint, repetition of her success from 1966 (1969: 100 meter hurdles / 1966: 80 meter hurdles )
  • Nadezhda Tschischowa (Soviet Union) - the shot put, repeating her 1966 success

Results men

100 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Valery Borsov	URS	10.4 SB
2	Alain Sarteur	FRA	10.4 SB
3	Philippe Clerc	SUI	10.5 SB
4th	Gérard Fenouil	FRA	10.7 SB
5	Hermann Burde	GDR	10.7 SB
6th	Barrie Kelly	GBR	10.7 SB
7th	Peter Haase	GDR	10.7 SB
DNS	René Metz	FRA

Final: September 17th

Wind: −2.7 m / s

200 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/200 m men

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Philippe Clerc	SUI	20.6 CR
2	Hermann Burde	GDR	20.9 PB
3	Zenon Nowosz	POLE	20.9 SB
4th	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	21.0 SB
5	Jiří Kynos	TCH	21.0 SB
6th	Hansruedie Wiedmer	SUI	21.1 PB
7th	Pasqualino Abeti	ITA	21.1 SB
8th	Philippe Guillet	FRA	21.2 PB

Final: September 20th

Wind: 0.0 m / s

400 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Jan Werner	POLE	45.7 CR
2	Jean-Claude Nallet	FRA	45.8 SB
3	Stanisław Grędziński	POLE	45.8 PB
4th	Jacques Carette	FRA	45.9 PB
5	Alexander Bratchikov	URS	45.9 PB
6th	Andrzej Badeński	POLE	45.9 SB
7th	Boris Savchuk	URS	46.3 PB
8th	Sergio Bello	ITA	46.6 PB

Final: September 18th

800 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/800 m men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Dieter Fromm	GDR	1: 45.9 CR
2	Jozef Plachý	TCH	1: 46.2
3	Manfred Matuschewski	GDR	1: 46.8
4th	Yevgeny Arshanov	URS	1: 47.1
5	Hansueli Mumenthaler	SUI	1: 47.2 PBe
6th	Andrzej Kupczyk	POLE	1: 47.5 SB
7th	Noel Carroll	IRL	1: 49.1 SB
8th	Erhard Schulze	GDR	1: 55.4

Final: September 19th

1500 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/1500 m men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	John Whetton	GBR	3: 39.4 CR
2	Frank Murphy	IRL	3: 39.5 SB
3	Henryk Szordykowski	POLE	3: 39.8
4th	Edgard Salvé	BEL	3: 39.9 PB
5	André Dehertoghe	BEL	3: 40.9 SB
6th	Jean Wadoux	FRA	3: 41.7 SB
7th	Pavel Penkava	TCH	3: 41.7 SB
8th	Francesco Arese	ITA	3: 42.2 SB

Final: September 20th

5000 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/5000 m men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Ian Stewart	GBR	13: 44.8 SB
2	Raschid Sharafetdinov	URS	13: 45.8 SB
3	Alan Blinston	GBR	13: 47.6 SB
4th	Bernd Dießner	GDR	13: 50.4 SB
5	Dane Korica	YUG	13: 51.4 SB
6th	Giuseppe Ardizzone	ITA	13: 51.8 SB
7th	Emiel Puttemans	BEL	13: 52.2 SB
8th	Bengt Nåjde	SWE	13: 55.8 SB

Date: September 19th

10,000 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969 / 10,000m men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jürgen Haase	GDR	28: 41.6 SB
2	Mike Tagg	GBR	28: 43.2 SB
3	Nikolai Sviridov	URS	28: 45.8 SB
4th	Drago Zuntar	YUG	28: 46.0 SB
5	Gaston Roelants	BEL	28: 49.8 SB
6th	Michael Freary	GBR	28: 49.8 SB
7th	René Jourdan	FRA	28: 57.0
8th	Georgi Tikhov	BGR	29: 04.0 SB

Date: September 16

European Champion Ron Hill, here after a race in Enschede in 1975

marathon

→ Main article : 1969 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Ron Hill	GBR	2: 16: 47.0 SB
2	Gaston Roelants	BEL	2: 17: 22.2 SB
3	Jim Alder	GBR	2: 19: 05.0 SB
4th	Jürgen Busch	GDR	2: 19: 34.4 SB
5	İsmail Akçay	DOOR	2: 22: 16.8 SB
6th	Denes Simon	HUN	2: 22: 58.8 PB
7th	Michel Wójcik	POLE	2: 23: 36.6 PB
8th	Yuri Volkov	URS	2: 24: 09.6 SB

Date: September 21

Eddy Ottoz in 2015

110 m hurdles

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/110 m hurdles for men

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Eddy Ottoz	ITA	13.5 CR
2	David Hemery	GBR	13.7 SB
3	Alan Pascoe	GBR	13.9 SB
4th	Guy Drut	FRA	14.0
5	Raimund Bethge	GDR	14.1
6th	Pierre Schoebel	FRA	14.1 PBe
7th	Kjellfred Weum	NOR	14.1 SB
8th	Sergio Liani	ITA	14.1 SB

Final: September 20th

Wind: 0.0 m / s

400 m hurdles

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/400 m hurdles for men

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Vyacheslav Skomorokhov	URS	49.7 SB
2	John Sherwood	GBR	50.1 SB
3	Andrew Todd	GBR	50.3 PB
4th	Hansjörg Wirz	SUI	50.8
5	François Huard	FRA	51.1
6th	Wilhelm Weistand	POLE	51.2
7th	Tadeusz Kulczycki	POLE	51.2
8th	Giorgio Ballati	ITA	52.4

Final: September 18th

3000 m obstacle

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Mikhail Shelev	BGR	8: 25.0 CR / NR
2	Alexander Morozov	URS	8: 25.6 SB
3	Vladimiras Dudinas	URS	8: 26.6 SB
4th	Georgi Tikhov	BGR	8: 27.2 SB
5	Jean-Paul Villain	FRA	8: 33.4
6th	Arne Risa	NOR	8: 34.6
7th	Kazimierz Maranda	POLE	8: 34.6
8th	Gerry Stevens	GBR	8: 36.6

Final: September 18th

4 × 100 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 100 m men

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	France	Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François Saint-Gilles	38.8 CR
2	Soviet Union	Alexander Lebedew Wladislaw Sapeja Nikolai Ivanov Valery Borsow	39.3 SB
3	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Dionys Szögedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.5 SB
4th	Poland	Stanisław Wagner Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Tadeusz Cuch	39.5 SB
5	GDR	Günter Gollos Peter Haase Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach	39.6 SB
6th	BR Germany	Manfred Knickenberg Gerhard Wucherer Volker Stöckel Günther Nickel	39.6 SB
7th	Yugoslavia	Miro Kocuvan Gabor Lendjel Ivan Karasi Predrag Krizan	39.7 SB
8th	Italy	Giorgio Rietti Ennio Preatino Angelo Squazzero Francesco Zandano	39.8 SB

Final: September 20th

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 400 men

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	France	Gilles Bertould Christian Nicolau Jacques Carette Jean-Claude Nallet	3: 02.3 CR
2	Soviet Union	Yevgeny Borissenko Boris Savchuk Yuri Sorin Alexander Bratchikov	3: 03.0 SB
3	BR Germany	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Ingo Röper Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus	3: 03.1
4th	Poland	Jan Balachowski Stanisław Grędziński Andrzej Badeński Jan Werner	3: 03.1 SB
5	Italy	Claudio Trachello Sergio Bello Giacomo Puosi Furio Fusi	3: 04.1
6th	Great Britain	Gwynne Griffith Colin Campbell Martin Winbolt-Lewis John Robertson	3: 04.2 SB
7th	Sweden	Goals Nilsson Michael Fredriksson Lars Gustafsson Ulf Nilsson	3: 08.9 SB
8th	Belgium	René Bervoets Tony Goovaerts Karel Brems Willy Vandenwyngaerden	3: 10.8

Final: September 20th

20 km walking

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/20 km walking men

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Paul Nihill	GBR	1: 30: 41.0 SB
2	Leonida Caraiosifoglu	ROME	1: 31: 06.4 PB
3	Nikolai Smaga	URS	1: 31: 20.2 SB
4th	Gerhard Sperling	GDR	1: 32: 04.0 SB
5	Hans-Georg Reimann	GDR	1: 33: 04.0 SB
6th	Abdon Pamich	ITA	1: 34: 15.0 PB
7th	Borys Yakovlev	URS	1: 35: 19.0 SB
8th	John Webb	GBR	1: 35: 51.0 SB

Date: September 16

50 km of walking

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/50 km walking men

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Christoph Höhne	GDR	4: 13: 32.8 CR
2	Peter Selzer	GDR	4: 16: 09.6 SB
3	Weniamin soldiersko	URS	4: 23: 04.8 SB
4th	Otto Bartsch	URS	4: 26: 45.0 SB
5	Ray Middleton	GBR	4: 27: 00.0 SB
6th	Stefan Ingvarsson	SWE	4: 32: 07.2 SB
7th	Charles Sowa	LUX	4: 33: 24.6 SB
8th	Alexandr Bilek	TCH	4: 34: 25.8 SB

Date: September 18

high jump

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Valentin Gavrilov	URS	2.17
2	Reijo Vähälä	FIN	2.17 PB
3	Erminio Azzaro	ITA	2.17 SB
4th	Henry Elliott	FRA	2.14 SB
5	Istvan Major	HUN	2.14 SB
6th	Christer Celion	SWE	2.14 SBe
7th	József Tihányi	HUN	2.11 SBe
8th	Valery Skvortsov	URS	2.08
	Ladislav Borodáč	TCH	2.08

Final: September 19th

Pole vault

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	5.30 CR
2	Kjell Isaksson	SWE	5.20 SB
3	Aldo Righi	ITA	5.10 PB
4th	Christos Papanikolaou	GRE	5.00 SB
5	John-Erik Blomquist	SWE	5.00
6th	Joachim Bear	GDR	5.00 PB
7th	Mike Bull	GBR	5.00 PB
8th	Erkki Mustakari	FIN	4.90 SB

Final: September 20th

Igor Ter-Ovansyan

Long jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	URS	8.17 w
2	Lynn Davies	GBR	8.07 w
3	Tõnu Lepik	URS	8.04 w
4th	Klaus Beer	GDR	8.03 w
5	Leonid Barkowskyj	URS	8.02 w
6th	Max Klauss	GDR	8.00 CR
7th	Jack Pani	FRA	7.87 w
8th	Gérard Ugolini	ITA	7.87 SB

Final: September 18th

With an excellent 8.17 m, Igor Ter-Owanesjan ( photo right ) became European champion in the long jump for the third time after 1958 and 1966 . However, the tailwind for this and numerous other jumps was above the value of 2.0 m / s, so that many distances were not ready for the best of lists.

Triple jump

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Viktor Saneyev	URS	17.34 CR
2	Zoltán Cziffra	HUN	16.85
3	Klaus Neumann	GDR	16.68
4th	Carol Corbu	ROME	16.56
5	Mikalaj Dudkin	URS	16.46
6th	Jörg Drehel	GDR	16.23 SB
7th	Giuseppe Gentile	ITA	16.03
8th	Serge Firca	FRA	15.94

Final: September 17th

Shot put

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969 / Men's Shot Put

Dieter Hoffmann

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	20.12 CR
2	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	20.05 SB
3	Hans-Peter Gies	GDR	19.78 SB
4th	Matti Yrjölä	FIN	19.27 SB
5	Pierre Colnard	FRA	19.06 SB
6th	Eduard Gushchin	URS	18.91 SB
7th	Vilmos Varjú	HUN	18.87 SB
8th	Nikolai Karassev	URS	18.71

Final: September 18th

Dieter Hoffmann ( photo on the right ) won a high-class competition with two GDR athletes who pushed further than twenty meters.

Discus throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hartmut Losch	GDR	61.82 CR
2	Ricky Bruch	SWE	61.08
3	Lothar Milde	GDR	59.34
4th	Ludvík Daněk	TCH	59.30 SB
5	Vladimir Lyakhov	URS	59.10 SB
6th	Ferenc Tégla	HUN	58.18
7th	Günter Schaumburg	GDR	57.88 SB
8th	Kaj Andersen	THE	56.26 SB

Final: September 17th

Anatolij Bondarchuk - European champion with world record

Hammer throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Anatoly Bondarchuk	URS	74.68 WR
2	Ramuald Klim	URS	72.74
3	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	72.02 SB
4th	Gyula Zsivótzky	HUN	69.68
5	Jochen Sachse	GDR	68.60 SB
6th	Lázár Lovász	HUN	66.90 SB
7th	Sándor Eckschmiedt	HUN	66.02
8th	Howard Payne	GBR	65.90 SB

Final: September 20th

Javelin throw

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's javelin

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jānis Lūsis	URS	91.52 CR
2	Pauli Nevala	FIN	89.58
3	Janusz Sidło	POLE	82.90 SB
4th	Gergely Kulcsár	HUN	81.40
5	Wieslaw Sieranski	POLE	79.74 SB
6th	Jānis Doniņš	URS	79.10
7th	Esko Kuuti	FIN	78.84
8th	Wladyslaw Nikiciuk	POLE	77.48

Final: September 19th

Joachim Kirst came to his first EM title in a superior manner

Decathlon

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969 / Men's Decathlon

space	athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 85 value.
1	Joachim Kirst	GDR	8041 CR	7910
2	Herbert Wessel	GDR	7828 PB	7683
3	Viktor Chelnokov	URS	7801 PB	7653
4th	Mykola Awilow	URS	7797 SB	7648
5	Rüdiger Demmig	GDR	7631 PB	7469
6th	Horst Mandl	AUT	7579	7439
7th	Lennart Hedmark	SWE	7531 SB	7402
8th	Urs Trautmann	SUI	7487 PB	7332

Final: 17./18. September

The scoring was based on the points table from 1964.

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved in 1985 according to the current rating system are also listed for comparison. But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Results women

100 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/100 m women

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.6 PB
2	Wilma van den Berg	NED	11.7 SB
3	Anita Neil	GBR	11.8 SB
4th	Val Peat	GBR	11.8 PB
5	Karin Balzer	GDR	11.8 PB
6th	Regina Höfer	GDR	11.8
7th	Eva Glesková	TCH	11.8 SBe
8th	Sylviane Telliez	FRA	11.9 SB

Final: September 17th

Wind: −0.4 m / s

200 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/200 m women

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	23.2 PB
2	Renate Meissner	GDR	23.3 SB
3	Val Peat	GBR	23.3 PB
4th	Wilma van den Berg	NED	23.5 SB
5	Gabrielle Meyer	FRA	23.7 PBe
6th	Mariana Goth	ROME	23.9 PB
7th	Else Hadrup	THE	24.0 PB
8th	Madeleine Cobb	GBR	24.1 PB

Final: September 19th

Wind: +0.6 m / s

400 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/400 m women

Colette Besson

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Nicole Duclos	FRA	51.7 WR
2	Colette Besson	FRA	51.7 WR
3	Maria Sykora	AUT	53.0
4th	Hannelore Middecke	GDR	53.1
5	Karin Lundgren	SWE	53.4
6th	Donata Govoni	ITA	53.6
7th	Janet Simpson	GBR	53.8
8th	Rosemary Stirling	GBR	54.6

Final: September 18th

Formally, the times were not yet rated in hundredths, but rather in tenths. The official times for the winner Nicole Duclos and for the second Colette Besson were the same with 51.7 seconds. Officially, both runners had achieved world records and were both listed as world record holders.

Despite her world record, Olympic champion Colette Besson ( photo right ) only finished second behind her compatriot Nicole Duclos.

800 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/800 m women

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Lillian Board	GBR	2: 01.4 CR
2	Annelise Damm-Olesen	THE	2: 02.6 NO
3	Vera Nikolić	YUG	2: 02.6 SB
4th	Barbara Wieck	GDR	2: 02.7 DR
5	Ileana Silai	ROME	2: 03.0 SB
6th	Pat Lowe	GBR	2: 03.4 SB
7th	Anne-Marie Nenzell	SWE	2: 05.2 SB
8th	Ilya Keizer	NED	2: 05.2

Final: September 17th

1500 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/1500 m women

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jaroslava Jehličková	TCH	4: 10.7 WR
2	Maria Gommers	NED	4: 11.9 NO
3	Paola Pigni	ITA	4: 12.0 NO
4th	Lyudmila Bragina	URS	4: 13.2 NO
5	Ilya Keizer	NED	4: 13.3 SB
6th	Regine Kleinau	GDR	4: 15.2 DR
7th	Rita Ridley	GBR	4: 15.9 NO
8th	Anne-Marie Nenzell	SWE	4: 16.6 NO

Final: September 20th

Karin Balzer

100 m hurdles

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/100 m hurdles for women

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Karin Balzer	GDR	13.3 CR
2	Bärbel Podeswa	GDR	13.6 PB
3	Teresa Nowak	POLE	13.7 SB
4th	Lija Chitrina	URS	13.8 PB
5	Teresa Sukniewicz	POLE	13.8 SB
6th	Regina Höfer	GDR	13.9 PB
7th	Christine Perera	GBR	14.0 PB
8th	Sirkka Norrlund	FIN	14.1 SB

Final: September 20th

Wind: −1.0 m / s

Karin Balzer ( photo on the right ) became the first female European champion on the new hurdle distance.

4 × 100 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 100 m women

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	GDR	Regina Höfer Renate Meißner Bärbel Podeswa Petra Vogt	43.6 CR
2	BR Germany	Bärbel Hähnle Jutta Stöck Rita Jahn Ingrid Becker	44.0 SB
3	Great Britain	Anita Neil Denise Ramsden Sheila Cooper Val Peat	44.3 SB
4th	France	Gabrielle Meyer Sylviane Telliez Nicole Montandon Veronique Grandrieux	44.6
5	Poland	Krystyna Mandecka Danuta Jędrejek Urszula Jóźwik Mirosława Sarna	44.7
6th	Soviet Union	Nadeschda Besfamilnaja Lyudmila Golomasowa Lyudmila Samotjossowa Galina Mitrochina	44.8
7th	Austria	Liese Prokop Helga Kapfer Maria Sykora Erika Kren	45.8
DNS	Sweden	Elisabeth Randerz Gun Olsson Karin Lundgren Margaretha Larsson

Final: September 20th

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 400 m women

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Great Britain	Rosemary Stirling Pat Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board	3: 30.8 WR
2	France	Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Éliane Jacq Colette Besson	3: 30.8 WR
3	BR Germany	Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese	3: 32.7 DR
4th	Soviet Union	Taissija Kovalevskaya Olga Klein Anna Dundare Raissa Nikanorowa	3: 33.7 SB
5	GDR	Waltraud Birnbaum Roswitha Becker Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middecke	3: 35.2 NO
6th	Sweden	Elisabeth Randerz Birgitta Larsson Ulla Ekblom Karin Lundgren	3: 35.4 SB
7th	Hungary	Antónia Munkácsi Magdolna Kulcsar Rozalia Sefer Györgyi Balogh	3: 36.6 SB
8th	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Hagman Pirjo Wilmi Eeva Haimi	3: 40.6 SB

Final: September 19th

In the run-up, the German relay had set a new world record with 3: 33.9 minutes , but this only lasted for one day.

high jump

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1969 / Women's high jump

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Milena Rezková	TCH	1.83 CRe
2	Antonina Lazareva	URS	1.83 CRe
3	Mária Mračnová	TCH	1.83 CRe
4th	Rita Schmidt	GDR	1.83 CRe
5	Karin Schulze	GDR	1.77 PB
6th	Snežana Hrepevnik	YUG	1.77 SB
7th	Ilona Gusenbauer	AUT	1.77 SB
8th	Barbara Inkpen	GBR	1.77 SB

Final: September 18th

Long jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Mirosława Sarna	POLE	6.49 PB
2	Viorica Viscopoleanu	ROME	6.45 SB
3	Berit Berthelsen	NOR	6.44 PB
4th	Diana Jorgowa	BGR	6.31 SB
5	Tamara Bychkova	URS	6.29 PB
6th	Maureen Barton	GBR	6.28 PB
7th	Eva Kucmanová	TCH	6.21 SB
8th	Kristina Hauer	GDR	6.19 PB

Date: September 19th

Shot put

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Nadezhda Tschischowa	URS	20.43 WR
2	Margitta Gummel	GDR	19.58
3	Marita Lange	GDR	18.56 SB
4th	Ivanka Christowa	BGR	18.04 NO
5	Renate Boy	GDR	17.59 SB
6th	Els van Noorduyn	NED	17.28 NO
7th	Irina Solonzova	URS	17.25 PB
8th	Galina Nekrasova	URS	17.19 SB

Date: September 16

Discus throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Tamara Danilova	URS	59.28 CR
2	Lyudmila Muravyova	URS	59.24 SB
3	Karin Illgen	GDR	58.66 PB
4th	Lia Manoliu	ROME	57.38 SB
5	Antonina Popova	URS	56.66 PB
6th	Olimpia Cataramă	ROME	56.62 SB
7th	Gabriele Hinzmann	GDR	52.32 SB
8th	Judit Stugner	HUN	52.00 SB

Date: September 19th

Angéla Ránky - after the Olympic victory in 1968 now also European champion

Javelin throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Angéla Ránky	HUN	59.76 CR
2	Magda Vidos	HUN	58.80 PB
3	Valentina Ewert	URS	56.56 PB
4th	Nataša Urbančič	YUG	55.68 SB
5	Nina Marakina	URS	55.34 SB
6th	Daniela Jaworska	POLE	55.16 SB
7th	Marion Lüttge	GDR	53.76 SB
8th	Cecylia Bajer	POLE	50.54 SB

Date: September 18

Pentathlon

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space	Athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 85 value.
1	Read Procopius	AUT	5030 CR	4419
2	Meta antennas	SUI	4793 SB	4210
3	Maria Sizyakova	URS	4773 PB	4176
4th	Valentina Tikhomirova	URS	4715 SB	4126
5	Marjan Ackermans-Thomas	NED	4701 PB	4116
6th	Elisabeth Waldburger	SUI	4648 PB	4056
7th	Sue Scott	GBR	4641 PB	4055
8th	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	4598 SB	4013

Date: 17th / 18th September

The points table from 1969 was used for scoring.

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved for the heptathlon according to the current rating system from 1985 are listed for comparison . But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 21, 2017
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 at trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 21, 2017
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 21, 2017
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969 on sportschau.de, accessed on June 21, 2017
• Athletics / European Championship. My dear David , DER SPIEGEL 39/1969, September 22, 1969 from spiegel.de, accessed on June 21, 2017
• Kick-off in Athens. Political explosive at the athletics championships , Zeit Online September 19, 1969 at zeit.de, accessed on June 21, 2017
• Jürgen May in the center of a German-German boycott affair , Allgemeine Zeitung September 16, 2014 Allgemeine-zeitung.de, accessed on June 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The sport reports: GDR sends 62 active participants to staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse, accessed on June 21, 2017
2. ^ Arnd Krüger : A Cultural Revolution? The Boycott of the European Athletics Championships by the West German Team in Athens 1969, in: CESH (Ed.): Proceedings Fourth Annual Conference . Volume 1. Florence 1999, pp. 162-166.