European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's javelin
9th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's javelin throw |
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Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
Attendees | 13 athletes from 8 countries |
Competition phase | September 19th |
Medalist | |
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Jānis Lūsis ( URS )
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Pauli Nevala ( FIN )
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Janusz Sidło ( POL )
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The men's javelin at the European Athletics Championships 1969 was held on September 19, 1969 in Athens' Karaiskakis Stadium .
It was won by the Soviet Olympic champion in 1968 and two-time European Champion of 1962 / 1966 Jānis Lūsis . The Finnish Olympic champion from 1964 Pauli Nevala came in second . Bronze went to the two-time European champion of 1954 / 1958 Janusz Sidło from Poland.
Records
Existing records
World record | 92.70 m |
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Tampere , Finland | June 18, 1969 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 84.48 m |
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EM Budapest , Hungary | September 1, 1966 |
Record improvements
The existing EM record was improved twice at these European Championships:
- 85.80 m - Pauli Nevala , final on September 19, 1st thrower in the 1st round
- 91.52 m - Jānis Lūsis , final on September 19th, 6th thrower in the 1st round
qualification
A qualifying round was originally planned for September 18, 1969 at 11:45 a.m., but this was canceled due to the small number of participants. So all thirteen throwers competed together for the final on the following day.
final
September 19, 1969, 5:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) | Best width (m) |
1 | Jānis Lūsis |
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91.52 | 84.56 | x | x | 79.86 | 83.08 | 91.52 CR |
2 | Pauli Nevala |
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85.80 | 89.58 | x | x | - | - | 89.58 |
3 | Janusz Sidło |
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82.90 | x | 76.02 | 75.46 | x | 72.24 | 82.90 SB |
4th | Gergely Kulcsár |
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x | 81.40 | 76.34 | 79.96 | 80.72 | 77.96 | 81.40 |
5 | Wieslaw Sieranski |
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74.84 | x | 79.74 | 76.26 | x | x | 79.74 SB |
6th | Jānis Doniņš |
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79.10 | x | x | 76.20 | x | x | 79.10 |
7th | Esko Kuuti |
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x | 70.58 | 78.84 | x | x | 76.38 | 78.84 |
8th | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk |
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x | 75.30 | 77.48 | x | 77.34 | x | 77.48 |
9 | Dave Travis |
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x | 65.68 | 76.32 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
76.32 SB | ||
10 | Jorma Kinnunen |
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69.62 | 74.82 | x | 74.82 | |||
11 | Andreas Kaponis |
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x | x | 73.24 | 73.24 PB | |||
12 | Carlo Lievore |
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66.90 | 72.06 | 67.58 | 72.06 SB | |||
13 | Milcho Milewski |
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71.58 | 71.66 | x | 71.66 SB |
The 1964 Olympic champion Pauli Nevala became vice European champion
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 12, 2019
- Men Javelin 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 Javelin 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, javelin men 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved June 12, 2019