European Athletics Championships 1969 / participant (GDR)
The GDR's DVfL had nominated a total of 62 athletes, 37 men and 25 women , for the European Athletics Championships in Athens in 1969 . The nominees included five defending champions from Budapest and two Olympic champions from 1968 .
successes
The GDR team took first place in the medal evaluation with 11 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze medals. The women won a medal in 6 out of 14 competitions and the men in 13 of 18 competitions in which they competed. The most successful athlete was Petra Vogt, who was only 19 and won three titles. Furthermore, GDR athletes set six European championship records.
Nominee athletes
| discipline | Men | Women | ||||
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| athlete | Sports club / association | placement | athlete | Sports club / association | placement | |
| 100 m |
Hermann Burde Peter Haase Hans-Jürgen Bombach |
ASK Forward Potsdam ASK Forward Potsdam SC Dynamo Berlin |
5th place 7th place preliminary |
Petra Vogt Karin Balzer Regina Höfer |
SC Chemie Halle SC Leipzig SC Leipzig |
 5th place 6th place |
| 200 m |
Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach |
ASK Forward Potsdam SC Dynamo Berlin |
 4th Place |
Petra Vogt Renate Meißner |
SC Chemie Halle SC Motor Jena |
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| 400 m | Hannelore Middecke | SC Motor Jena | 4th Place | |||
| 800 m |
Dieter Fromm Manfred Matuschewski Erhard Schulze |
SC Turbine Erfurt SC Turbine Erfurt ASK Forward Potsdam |
 8th place |
Barbara Wieck Gertrud Schmidt |
SC Empor Rostock SC Tractor Schwerin |
4th place forward |
| 1500 m |
Regine Kleinau Gunhild Hoffmeister Waltraud Pöhland |
SC DHfK Leipzig SC Cottbus SC Motor Jena |
6th place 11th place preliminary abandoned |
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| 5000 m | Bernd Dießner | ASK forward Potsdam | 4th Place | |||
| 10,000 m | Jürgen Haase | SC Leipzig | |
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| marathon | Jürgen Busch | ASK forward Potsdam | 4th Place | |||
| 100 m hurdles |
Karin Balzer Bärbel Podeswa Regina Höfer |
SC Leipzig SC Chemie Halle SC Leipzig |
6th place |
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| 110 m hurdles |
Raimund Bethge Frank Siebeck |
ASK forward Potsdam SC Leipzig |
5th place intermediate run |
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| 4 × 100 m |
Günter Gollos Peter Haase Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach |
ASK Forward Potsdam ASK Forward Potsdam ASK Forward Potsdam SC Dynamo Berlin |
5th place |
Regina Höfer Renate Meißner Bärbel Podeswa Petra Vogt |
SC Leipzig SC Motor Jena SC chemistry hall SC chemistry hall |
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| 4 × 400 m |
Roswitha Becker Waltraud Birnbaum Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middecke |
SC Dynamo Berlin SC Magdeburg SC Chemistry Hall SC Motor Jena |
5th place | |||
| 20 km walk |
Gerhard Sperling Hans-Georg Reimann |
TSC Berlin SC Dynamo Berlin |
5th place 6th place |
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| 50 km walk |
Christoph Höhne Peter Selzer Burkhard Leuschke |
SC Dynamo Berlin SC Dynamo Berlin SC Dynamo Berlin |
disqualified |
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| Long jump |
Klaus Beer Max Klauss |
SC Dynamo Berlin SC unit Dresden |
4th place 6th place |
Kristina Hauer | SC unit Dresden | 4th Place |
| Triple jump |
Klaus Neumann Jörg Drehmel |
SC Dynamo Berlin ASK Forward Potsdam |
6th place |
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| high jump | Herbert Huettl | SC Magdeburg | 22nd place |
Rita Schmidt Karin Schulze |
SC DHfK Leipzig SC DHfK Leipzig |
4th place 5th place |
| Pole vault |
Wolfgang Nordwig Joachim Bär |
SC Motor Jena SC Dynamo Berlin |
6th place |
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| Shot put |
Dieter Hoffmann Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg Hans-Peter Gies |
ASK Forward Potsdam SC Dynamo Berlin SC Dynamo Berlin |
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Margitta Gummel Marita Lange Renate Boy |
SC DHfK Leipzig SC Chemie Halle SC Empor Rostock |
5th place |
| Discus throw |
Hartmut Losch Lothar Milde Günter Schaumburg |
ASK Forward Potsdam SC Chemie Halle ASK Forward Potsdam |
7th place |
Karin Illgen Gabriele Hinzmann |
SC DHfK Leipzig SC DHfK Leipzig |
8th place |
| Hammer throw |
Reinhard Theimer Jochen Sachse |
TSC Berlin SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
5th place |
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| Javelin throw | Marion Lüttge | SC DHfK Leipzig | 7th place | |||
| Pentathlon |
Burglinde Pollak Monika Peikert |
ASK forward Potsdam SC Cottbus |
8th place 12th place |
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| Decathlon |
Joachim Kirst Herbert Wessel Rüdiger Demmig Manfred Tiedtke |
ASK Forward Potsdam SC DHfK Leipzig ASK Forward Potsdam SC Motor Jena |
5th place substitute starter |
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Furthermore, the sprinter Detlef Lewandowski from SC Dynamo Berlin was nominated, but he was not used.
Medals and participants per club
The active participants were spread over 14 different competitive sports centers, of which only eight sports clubs were able to celebrate medal winners. The most successful sports club was the SC Chemie Halle, whose starter Petra Vogt won three titles alone.
| space | Sports club / sports association | Attendees | |
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Medals total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Chemistry Hall | 5 | 4th | 1 | 2 | 7th |
| 2 | ASK forward Potsdam | 14th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4th |
| 3 | SC Leipzig | 4th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4th | SC Motor Jena | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | SC Dynamo Berlin | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 6th | SC Turbine Erfurt | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7th | SC DHfK Leipzig | 7th | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8th | TSC Berlin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | SC Magdeburg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | SC Empor Rostock | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | SC unit Dresden | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | SC Cottbus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | SC Tractor Schwerin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |