European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 100 m women

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of women
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants	9 relays with 36 athletes
Competition phase	September 19th (preliminary) September 20th (final)
Medalists
gold	GDR
silver	BR Germany
bronze	Great Britain

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The women's 4-by-100-meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19 and 20, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

The European champions were the runners from the GDR in the line-up of Regina Höfer , Renate Meißner , Bärbel Podeswa and Petra Vogt . Second place went to the Federal Republic of Germany with Bärbel Hähnle , Jutta Stöck , Rita Jahn and Ingrid Becker . Bronze went to Great Britain ( Anita Neil , Denise Ramsden , Sheila Cooper, Val Peat ).

Records

Existing records

World record	42.8 s	USA ( Barbara Ferrell , Margaret Bailes , Mildrette Netter , Wyomia Tyus )	OS Mexico City Finals , Mexico	20th October 1968
European record	43.4 s	Netherlands ( Wilma van Gool , Mieke Sterk, Geertruida Hennipman, Cornelia Bakker)	OS Mexico City advance , Mexico	19th October 1968
		Soviet Union ( Lyudmila Scharkowa , Galina Bucharina , Wera Popkowa , Lyudmila Samotjossowa )	OS Mexico City Finals , Mexico	20th October 1968
		Netherlands ( Wilma van Gool , Mieke Sterk, Geertruida Hennipman, Cornelia Bakker)
EM record	44.4 s	Poland (Elzbieta Bednarek, Danuta Straszyńska, Irena Kirszenstein , Ewa Kłobukowska )	EM Budapest , Hungary	4th September 1966

Record improvements

The relay of European champions from the GDR ( Regina Höfer , Renate Meißner , Bärbel Podeswa , Petra Vogt ) improved the existing championship record at these European championships twice:

• 44.2 s - 3rd advance on September 19th
• 43.6 s - final on September 20

Preliminary round

September 19, 1969, 11:00 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest teams - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. Only one team was eliminated.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Great Britain	Anita Neil Denise Ramsden Sheila Cooper Val Peat	45.0
2	France	Gabrielle Meyer Sylviane Telliez Nicole Montandon Veronique Grandrieux	45.6
3	Sweden	Elisabeth Randerz Gun Olsson Karin Lundgren Margaretha Larsson	46.4

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	BR Germany	Bärbel Hähnle Jutta Stöck Rita Jahn Ingrid Becker	44.6
2	Soviet Union	Nadeschda Besfamilnaja Lyudmila Golomasowa Lyudmila Samotjossowa Galina Mitrochina	45.2
3	Austria	Liese Prokop Helga Kapfer Maria Sykora Erika Kren	46.5

Forward 3

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	GDR	Regina Höfer Renate Meißner Bärbel Podeswa Petra Vogt	44.2 CR
2	Poland	Krystyna Mandecka Danuta Jędrejek Urszula Jóźwik Mirosława Sarna	45.9
3	Greece	Ekaterini Reizi Eleni Vrettakou Charoula Sassayanni Theodora Miniati	49.2

final

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

space	Season	occupation	Official time (s) hand-stopped	Unofficial time (s) electronically
1	GDR	Regina Höfer Renate Meißner Bärbel Podeswa Petra Vogt	43.6 CR	43.61
2	BR Germany	Bärbel Hähnle Jutta Stöck Rita Jahn Ingrid Becker	44.0 SB	43.90
3	Great Britain	Anita Neil Denise Ramsden Sheila Cooper Val Peat	44.3 SB	44.39
4th	France	Gabrielle Meyer Sylviane Telliez Nicole Montandon Veronique Grandrieux	44.6	k. A.
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

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 15, 2019
• Women 4x100m Relay European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 4x100m Relay European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 411 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 4 × 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 15, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 15, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m women , accessed June 15, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 4 × 100 m Women , p. 70 (PDF, 271 kB), French / English, accessed on June 15, 2019