European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 100 m men

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of men
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase	September 19th (preliminary) September 20th (final)
Medalist
gold	France
silver	Soviet Union
bronze	Czechoslovakia

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 10 and 11, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

France became European champions with Alain Sarteur , Patrick Bourbeillon , Gérard Fenouil and François Saint-Gilles . Second place went to the USSR with Alexander Lebedev, Vladislav Sapeja, Nikolai Ivanov and Valery Borsow . Bronze went to Czechoslovakia ( Ladislav Kříž , Dionys Szögedi, Jiří Kynos , Luděk Bohman ).

Records

Existing records

World record	38.2 s	USA ( Charles Greene , Mel Pender , Ronnie Ray Smith , Jim Hines )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
European record	38.4 s	France ( Gérard Fenouil , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck )
EM record	39.4 s	France ( Marc Berger , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck )	EM Budapest , Hungary	4th September 1969

Record improvement

The French European championship relay improved the existing championship record at these European championships with the line-up of Alain Sarteur , Patrick Bourbeillon , Gérard Fenouil and François Saint-Gilles twice:

• 39.3 s - 1st preroll, September 19
• 38.8s - final, September 10th

Preliminary round

September 19, 1969, 8:00 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	France	Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François Saint-Gilles	39.3 CR
2	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Dionys Szögedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.6
3	Poland	Stanisław Wagner Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Tadeusz Cuch	39.6
4th	Italy	Giorgio Rietti Ennio Preatino Angelo Squazzero Francesco Zandano	39.8
5	Greece	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos Georgios Mikelidis Antonios Mitrakis Nikolaos Argiris	40.5

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	GDR	Günter Gollos Peter Haase Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach	39.6
2	Yugoslavia	Miro Kocuvan Gabor Lendjel Ivan Karasi Predrag Krizan	40.0
3	BR Germany	Manfred Knickenberg Günther Nickel Gerhard Wucherer Volker Stöckel	40.0
4th	Soviet Union	Alexander Lebedew Wladislaw Sapeja Nikolai Ivanov Valery Borsow	40.1
5	Great Britain	Ian Green Ronald Jones Dave Dear Don Halliday	40.2

final

September 20, 1969, 8:00 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Official time (s) hand-stopped	Unofficial time (s) electronically
1	France	Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François Saint-Gilles	38.8 CR	38.89
2	Soviet Union	Alexander Lebedew Wladislaw Sapeja Nikolai Ivanov Valery Borsow	39.3 SB	39.40
3	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Dionys Szögedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.5 SB	39.52
4th	Poland	Stanisław Wagner Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Tadeusz Cuch	39.5 SB	39.55
5	GDR	Günter Gollos Peter Haase Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach	39.6 SB	39.67
6th	BR Germany	Manfred Knickenberg Gerhard Wucherer Volker Stöckel Günther Nickel	39.6 SB	39.68
7th	Yugoslavia	Miro Kocuvan Gabor Lendjel Ivan Karasi Predrag Krizan	39.7 SB	39.72
8th	Italy	Giorgio Rietti Ennio Preatino Angelo Squazzero Francesco Zandano	39.8 SB	39.85

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
• Men 4x100m Relay 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 , Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 409 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 4 × 100 m 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. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m , accessed on June 9, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 100 m on rfea.es, p. 35 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 9, 2019