European Athletics Championships 1969/200 m women

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 18th (preliminary / semi-finals) September 19th (final)
Medalists
gold	Petra Vogt ( GDR )
silver	Renate Meißner ( GDR )
bronze	Val Peat ( GBR )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The women's 200-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 18 and 19, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

In this competition there was a double victory for the sprinters from the GDR. The European champion was Petra Vogt , who had already won the 100-meter run two days earlier and who, after her gold medal, became three-time European champion on the final day with the 4-by-100-meter relay . She won ahead of Renate Meißner . who later rose to become a multiple Olympic champion as Renate Stecher. Bronze went to the British fourth over 100 meters Valerie Peat .

Existing records

World record	22.5 s	Irena Kirszenstein	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record
Championship record	23.1 s		EM Budapest , Hungary	2nd September 1966

Like over 100 meters , the runners had to struggle with strong headwinds. The existing EM record at these European championships was not set and not improved.

Preliminary round

September 18, 1969, 3 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.

Here, too, there was a questionable division of the races. Two runs were carried out with only four participants each, who qualified for the semifinals just by reaching the goal. In the other two races with six athletes each, however, the athletes had to fight for the semi-finals. Two of them were eliminated from these races.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Renate Meissner	GDR	23.3
2	Else Hadrup	Denmark	24.2
3	Mariana Goth	Romania	24.4
4th	Annette Berger	Luxembourg	26.3

Forward 2

Wind: −2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	23.8
2	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	24.2
3	Madeline Cobb	Great Britain	24.5
4th	Helga Kapfer	Austria	24.5
5	Ivanka Venkova	Bulgaria	25.1
6th	Kristín Jónsdóttir	Iceland	k. A.

Forward 3

Wind: −2.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	24.2
2	Uschi Meyer	Switzerland	24.3
3	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	24.4
4th	Val Peat	Great Britain	24.9

Forward 4

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	23.6
2	Gabrielle Meyer	France	23.9
3	Helen Golden	Great Britain	24.2
4th	Godelieve Ducatteuw	Belgium	25.0
5	Ludmila Golomasova	Soviet Union	25.1
6th	Suude Kocgil	Turkey	26.8

Semifinals

18th September 1969

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

Run 1

Wind: −1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Renate Meissner	GDR	23.6
2	Val Peat	Great Britain	23.8
3	Gabrielle Meyer	France	23.8 PBe
4th	Mariana Goth	Romania	24.1
5	Helen Golden	Great Britain	24.3
6th	Uschi Meyer	Switzerland	24.4
7th	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	24.5
DNF	Annette Berger	Luxembourg

Run 2

Wind: -4.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	23.5
2	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	23.7
3	Else Hadrup	Denmark	24.2
4th	Madeline Cobb	Great Britain	24.4
5	Helga Kapfer	Austria	24.5
6th	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	24.6
DNF	Godelieve Ducatteuw	Belgium
DNS	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union

final

19th September 1969

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) hand-stopped	Unofficial time (s) electronically
1	Petra Vogt	GDR	23.2 PB	23.30
2	Renate Meissner	GDR	23.3 SB	23.33
3	Val Peat	Great Britain	23.3 PB	23.34
4th	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	23.5 SB	23.59
5	Gabrielle Meyer	France	23.7 PBe	23.80
6th	Mariana Goth	Romania	23.9 PB	23.98
7th	Else Hadrup	Denmark	24.0 PB	24.01
8th	Madeline Cobb	Great Britain	24.1 PB	24.16

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  Vice European Champion Renate Meißner, later successful as Renate Stecher

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  Wilma van den Berg, vice European champion over 100 meters , achieved fourth place - later also known as Wilma van Gool

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 409f (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 200 m women 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. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed June 14, 2019