European Athletics Championships 1969/1500 m for women

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500-meter run for women
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants	22 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 19th (preliminary) September 20th (final)
Medalists
gold	Jaroslava Jehličková ( TCH )
silver	Maria Gommers ( NED )
bronze	Paola Pigni ( ITA )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The women's 1,500-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 10 and 11, 1969 in Athens' Karaiskakis Stadium . The competition was on the program of a top-class international championship for the first time.

The European champion was Czechoslovak Jaroslava Jehličková , who won the race in a new world record time. Second place went to Maria Gommers , who took third place in the 1968 Olympic Games over 800 meters . Bronze went to the Italian Paola Pigni .

Existing records

World record	4: 12.4 min	Paola Pigni	Milan , Italy	2nd July 1969
European record
Championship record	Competition for the first time in the program of the European Championships

A new EM record was set twice at these European championships :

• 4: 17.2 min - Paola Pigni , 1st preliminary on September 19th
• 4: 10.7 min - Jaroslava Jehličková , final on September 20th 

Jaroslava Jehličková set a new world record at the same time.

Preliminary round

September 19, 1969, 11:40 a.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first six athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Like over 800 meters , it was not enough for Zofia Kołakowska to make the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paola Pigni	Italy	4: 17.2 CR
2	Rita Ridley	Great Britain	4: 18.2
3	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 18.3
4th	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 18.4 SB
5	Ilya Keizer	Netherlands	4: 18.6
6th	Emilia Privrelová	Czechoslovakia	4: 19.0 PB
7th	Ludmlla Safonova	Soviet Union	4: 21.3 PB
8th	Vasilena Amzina	Bulgaria	4: 22.3 PB
9	Maria Linca	Romania	4: 24.6 PB
10	Zofia Kołakowska	Poland	4: 25.4 PB
11	Anne O'Brien	Ireland	4: 34.4 PB

Forward 2

Waltraud Pöhland (left) , later Waltraud Strotzer, did not reach the finish line in her lead

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Maria Gommers	Netherlands	4: 17.9
2	Anneloes Bosman	Netherlands	4: 18.1
3	Alla Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	4: 19.1
4th	Regine Kleinau	GDR	4: 21.5
5	Anne-Marie Nenzell	Sweden	4: 22.2
6th	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4: 28.4
7th	María Budavári	Hungary	4: 31.6 PB
8th	Thelwyn Bateman	Great Britain	4: 35.2 PB
9	Angela Ramello	Italy	4: 36.6 SB
10	Veselinka Milošević	Yugoslavia	4: 36.9 PB
DNF	Waltraud Pöhland	GDR

final

September 20, 1969, 6:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4: 10.7 WR
2	Maria Gommers	Netherlands	4: 11.9 NO
3	Paola Pigni	Italy	4: 12.0 NO
4th	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 13.2 NO
5	Ilya Keizer	Netherlands	4: 13.3 SB
6th	Regine Kleinau	GDR	4: 15.2 DR
7th	Rita Ridley	Great Britain	4: 15.9 NO
8th	Anne-Marie Nenzell	Sweden	4: 16.6 NO
9	Anneloes Bosman	Netherlands	4: 17.6 PB
10	Alla Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	4: 18.2 PB
11	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 23.2
12	Emilia Privrelová	Czechoslovakia	4: 32.8

A winning time of 4: 10.77 minutes was measured electronically, but this remains unofficial.

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  Maria Gommers, who won the Olympic Games over 800 meters the year before , became Vice European Champion

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  Ilja Keizer (here with the US sprinter Charles Greene ) reached fifth place three days after her eighth place over 800 meters

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 14, 2019
• Women 1500m European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 at trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 14, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 1500m European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 410 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 1500 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 14, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed June 14, 2019