European Athletics Championships 1969/400 m hurdles for men
| 9th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
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| discipline | Men's 400-meter hurdles |
| city |
.svg){kind=small} Athens
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| Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
| Attendees | 16 athletes from 12 countries |
| Competition phase | September 16 (preliminary) September 18 (final) |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Vyacheslav Skomorokhov ( URS )
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 silver |
John Sherwood ( GBR )
 |
 bronze |
Andrew Todd ( GBR )
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The men's 400-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 16 and 18, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .
In this competition there were two medals for Great Britain, silver and bronze. European champion was the Soviet Olympic fifth from 1968 Vyacheslav Skomorochow . He won John Sherwood before the 1968 Olympic third . Bronze went to Andrew Todd.
Existing records
| World record | 48.1 s |
David Hemery
|
OS Mexico City , Mexico | 15th October 1968 |
| European record | ||||
| Championship record | 49.2 s |
 Salvatore Morale
|
EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia | September 14, 1962 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
Preliminary round
September 16, 1969, 4:00 p.m.
With only sixteen runners, the number of participants was so small that three preliminary rounds in the preliminary round without another semi-final were enough to determine the eight finalists. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vyacheslav Skomorokhov |
Soviet Union
|
50.9 |
| 2 | François Huard |
 France
|
51.6 |
| 3 | Andrew Todd |
Great Britain
|
51.6 |
| 4th | Stavros Tziortzis |
Greece
|
52.4 |
| 5 | Zdzisław Serafin |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
53.5 |
| 6th | Alberto Matos |
 Portugal
|
53.6 |
| DNS | Manfred Klausner |
 GDR
|
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hansjörg Wirz |
 Switzerland
|
51.3 |
| 2 | John Sherwood |
Great Britain
|
51.4 |
| 3 | Tadeusz Kulczycki |
Poland
|
51.4 |
| 4th | Karel Brems |
 Belgium
|
52.5 |
| 5 | Zoran Majstorović |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
52.8 |
Forward 3
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giorgio Ballati |
Italy
|
51.2 |
| 2 | Wilhelm Weistand |
Poland
|
51.6 |
| 3 | Zsoltan Ringhoffer |
 Hungary
|
51.8 |
| 4th | Anatoly Kazakov |
Soviet Union
|
52.2 |
| 5 | Christo Gergow |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
|
53.4 |
final
September 18, 1969, 8:05 pm
| space | Surname | nation |
Official time (s) hand-stopped |
Unofficial time (s) electronically |
| 1 | Vyacheslav Skomorokhov |
Soviet Union
|
49.7 SB | 49.70 |
| 2 | John Sherwood |
Great Britain
|
50.1 SB | 50.10 |
| 3 | Andrew Todd |
Great Britain
|
50.3 PB | 50.38 |
| 4th | Hansjörg Wirz |
Switzerland
|
50.8 | k. A. |
| 5 | François Huard |
France
|
51.1 | |
| 6th | Wilhelm Weistand |
Poland
|
51.2 | |
| 7th | Tadeusz Kulczycki |
Poland
|
51.3 | |
| 8th | Giorgio Ballati |
Italy
|
52.4 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
- Men 400m Hurdles 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 , Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 407 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 400 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
- 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ a b IAAF world records. 400m hurdles men , accessed on June 7, 2019