European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 400 m women

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
9th European Athletics Championships
Athletics pictogram.svg
discipline 4 × 400 m relay of women
city Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece Athens
Stadion Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants 10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase September 19th (preliminary)
September 20th (final)
Medalists
gold gold United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain
Silver medals silver FranceFrance France
Bronze medals bronze Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany

The women's 4 x 400 meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19 and 20, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

This season was held here for the first time at a major international championship. Great Britain won the European championship with Rosemary Stirling , Pat Lowe , Janet Simpson and Lillian Board . Second place went to France with Bernadette Martin , Nicole Duclos , Éliane Jacq and Colette Besson . Bronze went to the Federal Republic of Germany ( Christa Czekay , Antje Gleichfeld , Inge Eckhoff , Christel Frese ).

Records

Existing records

World record 3: 34.2 min FranceFrance France
(Michele Mombet, Éliane Jacq , Nicole Duclos , Colette Besson )
Colombes , France July 6, 1969
European record
EM record Competition held for the first time at European Championships

Record lineups

Four times there was a new championship record at this event:

The times of the German relay in the run-up and the teams from Great Britain and France in the final were also world records.

Preliminary round

September 19, 1969, 7:25 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space Season occupation Time (min)
1 FranceFrance France Bernadette Martin
Nicole Duclos
Éliane Jacq
Colette Besson
3: 37.9 CR
2 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR Waltraud Birnbaum
Roswitha Becker
Ingelore Lohse
Hannelore Middeke
3: 38.8
3 FinlandFinland Finland Mona-Lisa Strandvall
Riitta Hagman
Pirjo Wilmi
Eeva Haimi
3: 40.7
4th SwedenSweden Sweden Elisabeth Randerz
Birgitta Larsson
Ulla Ekblom
Karin Lundgren
3: 41.1
5 ItalyItaly Italy Maria Bruni
Armida Guzzetti
Silvana Zangirolami
Donata Govoni
3: 42.3 SB

Forward 2

space Season occupation Time (min)
1 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany Christa Czekay
Antje Gleichfeld
Inge Eckhoff
Christel Frese
3: 33.9 WR
2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain Rosemary Stirling
Pat Lowe
Janet Simpson
Lillian Board
3: 34.3
3 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union Taissija Kovalevskaya
Olga Klein
Anna Dundare
Raissa Nikanorowa
3: 34.5
4th Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary Antónia Munkácsi
Magdolna Kulcsar
Rozalia Sefer
Györgyi Balogh
3: 35.8 SB
5 Poland 1944Poland Poland Krystyna Kacperczyk
Danuta Piecyk
Anna Beltowska
Elżbieta Skowrońska
3: 38.1 SB

final

September 20, 1969, 8:10 p.m.

space Season occupation Official time (min)
hand-stopped
Unofficial time (min)
electronically
1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain Rosemary Stirling
Pat Lowe
Janet Simpson
Lillian Board
3: 30.8 WR 3: 30.82
2 FranceFrance France Bernadette Martin
Nicole Duclos
Éliane Jacq
Colette Besson
3: 30.8 WR 3: 30.85
3 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany Christa Czekay
Antje Gleichfeld
Inge Eckhoff
Christel Frese
3: 32.7 DR k. A.
4th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union Taissija Kovalevskaya
Olga Klein
Anna Dundare
Raissa Nikanorowa
3: 33.7 SB
5 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR Waltraud Birnbaum
Roswitha Becker
Ingelore Lohse
Hannelore Middeke
3: 35.2 NO
6th SwedenSweden Sweden Elisabeth Randerz
Birgitta Larsson
Ulla Ekblom
Karin Lundgren
3: 35.4 SB
7th Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary Antónia Munkácsi
Magdolna Kulcsar
Rozalia Sefer
Györgyi Balogh
3: 36.6 SB
8th FinlandFinland Finland Mona-Lisa Strandvall
Riitta Hagman
Pirjo Wilmi
Eeva Haimi
3: 40.6 SB

Web links

References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. 4 × 400 m , accessed on June 15, 2019