European Athletics Championships 1969/200 m men

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	September 18th (preliminary) September 19th (semi-finals) September 20th (final)
Medalist
gold	Philippe Clerc ( SUI )
silver	Hermann Burde ( GDR )
bronze	Zenon Nowosz ( POL )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's 200-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held from September 18 to 20, 1969 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

The European champion was the third in the 100-meter run Philippe Clerc from Switzerland. He won ahead of the GDR sprinter Hermann Burde . Bronze went to the Pole Zenon Nowosz .

Records

Existing records

World record	19.8 s	Tommie Smith	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 16, 1968
European record	20.3 s	Philippe Clerc	Zurich , Switzerland	4th July 1969
Championship record	20.7 s	Owe Jonsson	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

Record improvement

European champion Philippe Clerc improved the existing EM record in the final on September 20th by a tenth of a second to 20.6 seconds.  

Preliminary round

September 18, 1969, 3:40 p.m.

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: –2.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.4
2	Predrag Križan	Yugoslavia	21.6
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	21.7
4th	Barcelo de Carvalho	Portugal	21.8
5	Émile Jung	Luxembourg	22.2

Forward 2

Wind: -4.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.4
2	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.4
3	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.4
4th	David Dear	Great Britain	21.6
5	Georgios Mikelidis	Greece	21.8
6th	Trendafil Terziyski	Bulgaria	21.8

Forward 3

Wind: -3.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nikolai Ivanov	Soviet Union	21.6
2	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	21.7
3	Hermann Burde	GDR	21.7
4th	László Mihályfi	Hungary	21.8
5	Ole Bernt Skarstein	Norway	21.9

Forward 4

Wind: –2.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.2
2	Philippe Guillet	France	21.3
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	21.3
4th	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.4
5	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	21.4

Semifinals

September 19, 1969, 5:10 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.9
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	20.9
3	Hermann Burde	GDR	21.0
4th	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.1
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.1
6th	Predrag Križan	Yugoslavia	21.2
7th	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.3
8th	László Mihályfi	Hungary	21.5

Run 2

Wind: -1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	21.2
2	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.2
3	Philippe Guillet	France	21.2
4th	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.4
5	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	21.4
6th	David Dear	Great Britain	21.5
7th	Nikolai Ivanov	Soviet Union	21.6
DNS	Barcelo de Carvalho	Portugal

final

September 20, 1969, 6:30 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) hand-stopped	Unofficial time (s) electronically
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.6 CR	20.70
2	Hermann Burde	GDR	20.9 PB	20.94
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	20.9 SB	20.96
4th	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	21.0 SB	21.07
5	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.0 SB	21.09
6th	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.1 PB	21.14
7th	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.1 SB	21.18
8th	Philippe Guillet	France	21.2 PB	21.22

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 5, 2019
• Men 200m European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 200m European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 405 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 5, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m men , accessed June 5, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , p. 8 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 5, 2019 (French / English)