European Athletics Championships 1969/800 m women
| 9th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
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| discipline | Women's 800-meter run |
| city |
.svg){kind=small} Athens
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| Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
| Participants | 15 athletes from 13 countries |
| Competition phase | September 16th (preliminary) September 17th (final) |
| Medalists | |
 gold |
Lillian Board ( GBR )
 |
 silver |
Annelise Damm-Olesen ( DEN )
 |
 bronze |
Vera Nikolić ( YUG )
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The women's 800-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 16 and 17, 1969 in Athens' Karaiskakis Stadium .
European champion was the British Olympic runner-up over 400 meters from 1968 Lillian Board . She won ahead of Annelise Damm-Olesen from Denmark. Bronze went to the Yugoslav defending champion Vera Nikolić .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 2: 00.5 min |
Vera Nikolić
|
London , UK | 20th July 1968 |
| European record | ||||
| Championship record | 2: 02.8 min |
 Gerda Kraan
|
EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia | September 16, 1962 |
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Vera Nikolić
|
EM Budapest , Hungary | 4th September 1966 |
Record improvement
In the final on September 17th, European champion Lillian Board improved the existing EM record by 1.4 seconds to 2: 01.4 minutes.
Preliminary round
September 16, 1969, 6:10 p.m.
The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. 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.
The division of the preliminary runs with an overall thin participation was not exactly happy. The fifteen middle distance athletes could have been divided into five athletes each over three runs. Instead, there were six participants in the first race, five in the second and four in the third.
Forward 1
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ileana Silai |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
|
2: 05.0 |
| 2 | Anne-Marie Nenzell |
 Sweden
|
2: 06.0 |
| 3 | Gertrud Schmidt |
 GDR
|
2: 06.0 PB |
| 4th | Zofia Kołakowska |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
2: 07.1 PB |
| 5 | Britt Ramstad |
 Norway
|
2: 07.4 PB |
| 6th | Neşe Karatepe |
 Turkey
|
2: 18.8 PB |
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vera Nikolić |
Yugoslavia
|
2: 04.2 |
| 2 | Pat Lowe |
Great Britain
|
2: 05.9 |
| 3 | Milda Kade |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
|
2: 06.7 |
| 4th | Maryvonne Dupureur |
 France
|
2: 08.6 SB |
| 5 | María Budavári |
 Hungary
|
2: 10.7 PB |
Forward 3
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lillian Board |
Great Britain
|
2: 04.2 |
| 2 | Annelise Damm-Olesen |
Denmark
|
2: 04.5 NO |
| 3 | Ilya Keizer |
Netherlands
|
2: 04.8 PB |
| 4th | Barbara Wieck |
GDR
|
2: 05.4 |
final
September 17, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lillian Board |
Great Britain
|
2: 01.4 CR |
| 2 | Annelise Damm-Olesen |
Denmark
|
2: 02.6 NO |
| 3 | Vera Nikolić |
Yugoslavia
|
2: 02.6 SB |
| 4th | Barbara Wieck |
GDR
|
2: 02.7 DR |
| 5 | Ileana Silai |
Romania
|
2: 03.0 SB |
| 6th | Pat Lowe |
Great Britain
|
2: 03.4 SB |
| 7th | Anne-Marie Nenzell |
Sweden
|
2: 05.2 SB |
| 8th | Ilya Keizer |
Netherlands
|
2: 05.2 |
A winning time of 2: 01.50 min was measured electronically, but it remains unofficial.
Defending champion Vera Nikolić won the bronze medal
After Ileana Silai narrowly missed the final at the European Championships in 1966 and came second in 1968 , she came in fifth here
Ilja Keizer, who was seventh in the European Championship in 1966, was eighth this time - three days later she was fifth over 1500 meters
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 14, 2019
- Women 800m European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 14, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 at trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 14, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 410 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 14, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 14, 2019
- 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 14, 2019
Video
- Lillian Board, 1969 , published December 18, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed June 14, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed June 14, 2019