European Athletics Championships 1969/100 m women

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants	24 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 16 (preliminary) September 17 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Petra Vogt ( GDR )
silver	Wilma van den Berg ( NED )
bronze	Anita Neil ( GBR )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The women's 100-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 16 and 17, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

GDR sprinter Petra Vogt became the European champion . She won ahead of the Dutchman Wilma van den Berg . Bronze went to the British Anita Neil .

Existing records

World record	11.1 s	Irena Kirszenstein	Prague , Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	July 9, 1965
		Wyomia Tyus	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	July 31, 1965
		Barbara Ferrell	Santa Barbara , USA	2nd July 1967
		Lyudmila Samotyosova	Leninakan (now Gyumri ), Soviet Union (now Armenia )	15th August 1968
		Irena Kirszenstein	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico - Quarter Finals	October 14, 1968
		Wyomia Tyus	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico - Final	15th October 1968
European record	11.1 s	Irena Kirszenstein	Prague , Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	July 9, 1965
			Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico - Quarter Finals	October 14, 1968
EM record	11.4 s	Jutta Heine	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia - semi-finals	September 13, 1962
		Ewa Kłobukowska	EM Budapest , Hungary - preliminary	August 30, 1966
			EM Budapest , Hungary - semi-finals	August 31, 1966

In all races of the 100-meter run , the athletes had to deal with clear headwinds. The existing EM record at these European championships was not set and not improved.

Preliminary round

September 16, 1969, 8:20 pm

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: −3.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karin Balzer	GDR	11.9
2	Else Hadrup	Denmark	12.0
3	Mirosława Sarna	Poland	12.0
4th	Mariana Goth	Romania	12.2
5	Anne Van Rensbergen	Belgium	12.2
6th	Ivanka Venkova	Bulgaria	12.6

Forward 2

Wind: −2.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.6
2	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.9
3	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	12.1
4th	Galina Mitrochina	Soviet Union	12.2
5	Dominique Descatoire	France	12.7
6th	Annette Berger	Luxembourg	12.9
7th	Kristín Jónsdóttir	Iceland	13.3

Forward 3

Wind: −3.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Val Peat	Great Britain	12.0
2	Regina Höfer	GDR	12.1
3	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia	12.2
4th	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	12.3
5	Mona-Lisa Strandvall	Finland	12.4

Forward 4

Wind: −2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.9
2	Sylviane Telliez	France	12.0
3	Ludmila Mikhailova	Soviet Union	12.2
4th	Madeleine Cobb	Great Britain	12.2
5	Erika Kren	Austria	12.4
6th	Gun Olsson	Sweden	12.6

Semifinals

September 17, 1969, 4:40 pm

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.7
2	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.7
3	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.8
4th	Regina Höfer	GDR	11.9 PB
5	Mirosława Sarna	Poland	12.0
6th	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	12.0
7th	Ludmila Mikhailova	Soviet Union	12.2
DNS	Mariana Goth	Romania

Run 2

Wind: −2.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.7
2	Karin Balzer	GDR	11.8
3	Val Peat	Great Britain	11.9
4th	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.9 SB
5	Else Hadrup	Denmark	12.0
6th	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	12.1
7th	Galina Mitrochina	Soviet Union	12.1
DNS	Madeleine Cobb	Great Britain

final

September 17, 1969, 5:55 pm

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) hand-stopped	Unofficial time (s) electronically
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.6 PB	11.66
2	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.7 SB	11.74
3	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.8 SB	11.81
4th	Val Peat	Great Britain	11.8	11.87
5	Karin Balzer	GDR	11.8	11.88
6th	Regina Höfer	GDR	11.8	11.90
7th	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia	11.8 SBe	11.90
8th	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.9 SB	11.92

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  Vice European Champion Wilma van den Berg, later also successful under her name Wilma van Gool

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  Hurdles specialist Karin Balzer - among other things, Olympic champion in 1964 and here three days later European champion in the hurdles sprint - achieved fifth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 409 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 7, 2019

Video

• 100m European Championship 1969 Athens , published January 6, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed June 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed June 13, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 100 m Women on rfea.es, p. 47 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 13, 2019