European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's hammer throw

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	19 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 19 (qualification) September 20 (final)
Medalist
gold	Anatoly Bondarchuk ( URS )
silver	Ramuald Klim ( URS )
bronze	Reinhard Theimer ( GDR )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19 and 20, 1969 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the Soviet hammer throwers achieved a double victory. Anatolij Bondarchuk became European champion . In doing so, he set a new world record. He won before the Olympic champion from 1964 , Olympic champion from 1968 , previous world record holder and defending champion Ramuald Klim . Bronze went to the GDR athlete Reinhard Theimer .

Records

Existing records

World record	74.52 m	Ramuald Klim	Budapest , Hungary	15th June 1969
European record
Championship record	70.02 m		EM Budapest , Hungary	4th September 1966

Record improvements

The existing EM record was improved twice at these European Championships:

• 71.06 m - Reinhard Theimer , qualification on September 19 
• 74.68 m - Anatolij Bondarchuk , final on September 20 

The winning distance of the new European champion Anatolij Bondarchuk also represented a new world record.

qualification

September 19, 1969, 10:00 a.m.

Nineteen participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 66.00 m. Since only seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.08 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	71.06 CR
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	69.98 SB
3	Anatoly Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	69.06
4th	Ramuald Klim	Soviet Union	68.50
5	Lázár Lovász	Hungary	66.86
6th	Jochen Sachse	GDR	66.72
7th	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	66.68 SB
8th	Kauko Harlos	Finland	64.74
9	Howard Payne	Great Britain	64.58
10	Johann Pötsch	Austria	63.20
11	Lars-Inge Ström	Sweden	62.70
12	Dimitar Mindow	Bulgaria	62.08 PB
13	Georgios Babaniotis	Greece	61.98 SB
14th	Ernst Ammann	Switzerland	60.88 SB
15th	Jacques Accambray	France	60.76 SB
16	Carlos Sustelo	Portugal	60.54 PB
17th	Stanisław Lubiejewski	Poland	59.50 SB
18th	Gérard Chadefaux	France	59.42
19th	Erlendur Valdimarsson	Iceland	51.04 PB

final

September 20, 1969, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Anatoly Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	74.68 WR
2	Ramuald Klim	Soviet Union	72.74
3	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	72.02 SB
4th	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	69.68
5	Jochen Sachse	GDR	68.60 SB
6th	Lázár Lovász	Hungary	66.90 SB
7th	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	66.02
8th	Howard Payne	Great Britain	65.90 SB
9	Kauko Harlos	Finland	65.16 SB
10	Johann Pötsch	Austria	64.00 PB
11	Dimitar Mindow	Bulgaria	61.48
12	Lars-Inge Ström	Sweden	61.44

• 

  European champion Anatolij Bondarchuk, shown here on a postage stamp, achieved a new world record with his victory distance

• 

  Jochen Sachse reached fifth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 12, 2019
• Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 408 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, men's hammer throw on sportschau.de, accessed on June 12, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed June 12, 2019