European Athletics Championships 1969/100 m men

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 16th (preliminary / semi-finals) September 17th (final)
Medalist
gold	Valery Borsov ( URS )
silver	Alain Sarteur ( FRA )
bronze	Philippe Clerc ( SUI )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's 100-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 16 and 17, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

The European champion was the Soviet sprinter Valerij Borsow . He won ahead of the Frenchman Alain Sarteur . Bronze went to the Swiss Philippe Clerc , who won the 200-meter run three days later .

Existing records

World record	9.9 s	Jim Hines	Sacramento , USA	June 20, 1968
		Ronnie Ray Smith
		Charles Greene
		Jim Hines	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
European record	10.0 s	Armin Hary	Zurich , Switzerland	June 21, 1960
		Roger Bambuck	Sacramento , USA (preliminary)	June 20, 1968
			Sacramento , USA (semi-finals)
		Vladislav Sapeja	Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia )	20th July 1968
			Leninakan (now Gyumri ), Soviet Union (now Armenia )	15th August 1968
		Valery Borsov	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	18th August 1969
EM record	10.3 s	Marian Foik	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 12, 1962
		Peter Gamper
		Alfred Hebauf

Annotation:

The fastest electronically timed time at European Championships - the winning time of the 1958 European Champion Armin Hary in the final on August 20, 1958 with 10.35 seconds - is unofficial as a championship record. Hary's time was unmatched at the 1969 European Championships.

The existing championship record was not set and not improved at these European championships. The races all took place with strong headwinds, so that fast times were not possible.

Preliminary round

September 16, 1969, 5:50 pm

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Sixth place in his preliminary run was not enough for Vasilis Papageorgopoulos (here as a politician in 2009) for the semi-finals - later he was more successful

Wind: -3.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.7
2	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	10.8
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	10.8
4th	Ronald Jones	Great Britain	10.9
5	Ivica Karasi	Yugoslavia	11.0
6th	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Greece	11.0
7th	Godwin Zammit	Malta	11.8

Forward 2

Wind: -3.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hermann Burde	GDR	10.7
2	René Metz	France	10.8
3	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.8
4th	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	10.8
5	Tadeusz Cuch	Poland	10.9
6th	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	11.0
7th	Paul Poels	Belgium	11.0

Forward 3

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alain Sarteur	France	10.6
2	Peter Haase	GDR	10.7
3	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.8
4th	Vladislav Sapeja	Soviet Union	10.8
5	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.8
6th	Orhan Aydın	Turkey	11.0

Forward 4

Wind: −4.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.7
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.7
3	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.8
4th	Alexander Lebedev	Soviet Union	10.8
5	Dionýz Szögedi	Czechoslovakia	10.9
6th	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	10.9
7th	Ole Bernt Skarstein	Norway	11.0
8th	Not so Faager	Sweden	12.4

Semifinals

September 16, 1969, 7:50 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: −2.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.5
2	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.5
3	René Metz	France	10.5
4th	Peter Haase	GDR	10.6
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.6
6th	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	10.7
7th	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	10.7
8th	Ronald Jones	Great Britain	10.8

Run 2

Wind: −3.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alain Sarteur	France	10.6
2	Hermann Burde	GDR	10.6
3	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.6
4th	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.6
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.6
6th	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	10.7
7th	Alexander Lebedev	Soviet Union	10.8
8th	Vladislav Sapeja	Soviet Union	10.8

final

European champion Valeri Borsow (here in 2012) - 1972  double Olympic champion over 100 and 200 meters

September 17, 1969, 6:00 p.m.

Wind: −2.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) hand-stopped	Unofficial time (s) electronically
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.4 SB	10.49
2	Alain Sarteur	France	10.4 SB	10.50
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.5 SB	10.56
4th	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.7 SB	10.71
5	Hermann Burde	GDR	10.7 SB	10.72
6th	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.7 SB	10.77
7th	Peter Haase	GDR	10.7 SB	10.84
DNS	René Metz	France

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 4, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 4, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 4, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 405 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 4, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 4, 2019

Video

• Valeriy Borzov 100m European Athletics Championships Athens 09/17/1969 , published June 25, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed June 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed June 4, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , p. 6 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 4, 2019 (French / English)