European Athletics Championships 1969 / Women's Shot Put

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants	11 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	16th September
Medalists
gold	Nadezhda Tschischowa ( URS )
silver	Margitta Gummel ( GDR )
bronze	Marita Lange ( GDR )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The shot put women at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was on 16 September 1969 in Athens Karaiskakis Stadium discharged.

In this competition, the athletes from the GDR won two medals, silver and bronze. The European champion was the Soviet defending champion and Olympic bronze medalist in 1968 Nadezhda Tschischowa . With her victory distance she set a new world record. Second place went to the Olympic champion from 1968, EC second from 1966 and previous world record holder Margitta Gummel . Bronze went to Marita Lange, who finished second in the Olympic Games in 1968 and came third in the European Championship in 1966 . The medals of major international championships since 1966 have remained with the same three athletes, only the order among each other has always changed.

Records

Existing records

World record	20.10 m	Margitta Gummel	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	11th September 1969
European record
EM record	18.55 m	Tamara Press	EM in Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 12, 1962

Record improvements

The new European champion Nadezhda Tschischowa improved the existing EM record at these European championships twice:

• 20.10 m - final on September 16, 1st round
• 20.43 m - final on September 16, 6th round

At the same time, Nadezhda Tschischowa set Margitta Gummel's world record with her first attempt in the final and improved this world record by 33 centimeters with her last push.

execution

With only eleven participants, the organizers waived the qualification scheduled for September 16, 5:00 p.m. On the evening of September 16, all athletes entered the final together.

final

Vice European Champion Margitta Gummel - after her Olympic victory in 1968 , she lost her world record here again to Nadezhda Tschischowa

September 16, 1969, 7:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Nadezhda Tschischowa	Soviet Union	20.43 WR
2	Margitta Gummel	GDR	19.58
3	Marita Lange	GDR	18.56 SB
4th	Ivanka Christowa	Bulgaria	18.04 NO
5	Renate Boy	GDR	17.59 SB
6th	Els van Noorduyn	Netherlands	17.28 NO
7th	Irina Solonzova	Soviet Union	17.25 PB
8th	Galina Nekrasova	Soviet Union	17.19 SB
9	Vladimíra Srbová	Czechoslovakia	15.52 PB
10	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	15.22 SB
11	Brenda Bedford	Great Britain	14.14 PB

The two first-placed athletes had the following series of tests:

• Nadezhda Tschischowa: 20.10 m WRe - 19.92 m - 17.78 m - 19.93 m - 20.03 m - 20.43 m WR
• Margitta Gummel: 19.00 m - 19.22 m - x - x - 19.58 m - 18.90 m

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  The European Championship third from 1966 Marita Lange repeated this success here after finishing second in the Olympic Games the year before

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  Renate Boy, formerly Renate Garisch, reached fifth place

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  Els van Noorduyn finished sixth

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  Helena Fibingerová (here in 2012) - at the beginning of an extremely successful international career - came tenth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 16, 2019
• Women Shot Put European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 16, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 16, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 411 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on June 16, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed June 16, 2019