European Athletics Championships 1969/110 m hurdles of men

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 18th (preliminary) September 19th (semi-finals) September 20th (final)
Medalist
gold	Eddy Ottoz ( ITA )
silver	David Hemery ( GBR )
bronze	Alan Pascoe ( GBR )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held from September 18 to 20, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

With silver and bronze there were two medals for the British hurdles in this competition. European champion was the Italian defending champion and 1968 Olympic bronze medalist Eddy Ottoz . He won the 400 meter hurdles from 1968 before the Olympic champion David Hemery . Bronze went to Alan Pascoe .

Records

Existing records

World record	13.2 s	Martin Lauer	Zurich , Switzerland	July 7, 1959
		Lee Calhoun	Bern , Switzerland	August 21, 1960
		Earl McCullouch	Minneapolis , USA	July 16, 1967
		Willie Davenport	Zurich , Switzerland	4th July 1969
European record		Martin Lauer	Zurich , Switzerland	July 7, 1959
EM record	13.7 s	Martin Lauer	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958
		Eddy Ottoz	EM Budapest , Hungary , semi-finals	3rd September 1966
			EM Budapest , Hungary , final	4th September 1966

Record improvement

European champion Eddy Ottoz improved the existing championship record in the final on September 20th by two tenths of a second to 13.5 seconds.  

Preliminary round

September 18, 1969, 5:00 p.m.

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

Wind: –2.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Guy Drut	France	14.0
2	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	14.3
3	Kjellfred Weum	Norway	14.5
4th	Marco Acerbi	Italy	14.6
5	Wilfried Geeroms	Belgium	14.6
6th	Ari Salin	Finland	14.7

Forward 2

As seventh of his race, Hans van Enkhuizen was eliminated in the preliminary stages

Wind: -2.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Eddy Ottoz	Italy	13.8
2	Håkon Fimland	Finland	14.2
3	Nicolae Pertea	Romania	14.3
4th	Marek Jóźwik	Poland	14.3
5	Victor Balichin	Soviet Union	14.5
6th	Jean-Pierre Corval	France	14.5
7th	Hans van Enkhuizen	Netherlands	15.2

Forward 3

Wind: –2.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Hemery	Great Britain	13.8
2	Werner Kuhn	Switzerland	14.1
3	Frank Siebeck	GDR	14.1
4th	Sergio Liani	Italy	14.2
5	Athanasios Lazaridis	Greece	14.5
6th	Alberto Matos	Portugal	14.6

Forward 4

Wind: –2.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pierre Schoebel	France	14.2
2	Raimund Bethge	GDR	14.3
3	Bo Forssander	Sweden	14.5
4th	Lubomír Nádeníček	Czechoslovakia	14.6
5	Stuart Storey	Great Britain	14.7

Semifinals

September 19, 1969, 6:10 p.m.

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

Run 1

Marek Jóźwik (here in 2008) did not reach the finals with his seventh place in the semi-finals

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Eddy Ottoz	Italy	13.9
2	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	14.0
3	Pierre Schoebel	France	14.0
4th	Kjellfred Weum	Norway	14.1
5	Frank Siebeck	GDR	14.1
6th	Werner Kuhn	Switzerland	14.1
7th	Marek Jóźwik	Poland	14.4
8th	Marco Acerbi	Italy	14.5

Run 2

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Hemery	Great Britain	13.8
2	Guy Drut	France	13.8
3	Raimund Bethge	GDR	14.1 PB
4th	Sergio Liani	Italy	14.1
5	Håkon Fimland	Finland	14.2
6th	Nicolae Pertea	Romania	14.3
7th	Bo Forssander	Sweden	14.4
8th	Lubomír Nádeníček	Czechoslovakia	14.5

final

September 20, 1969, 6:45 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) hand-stopped	Unofficial time (s) electronically
1	Eddy Ottoz	Italy	13.5 CR	13.59
2	David Hemery	Great Britain	13.7 SB	13.74
3	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	13.9 SB	13.94
4th	Guy Drut	France	14.0	14.08
5	Raimund Bethge	GDR	14.1	14.10
6th	Pierre Schoebel	France	14.1 PBe	14.10
7th	Kjellfred Weum	Norway	14.1 SB	14.18
8th	Sergio Liani	Italy	14.1 SB	14.19

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  Eddy Ottoz (here in 2019) defended his European Championship title as a third Olympic athlete from 1968
  

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed on June 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 406 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed June 7, 2019