European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 400 m women

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 400 m relay of women
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants	10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase	September 19th (preliminary) September 20th (final)
Medalists
gold	Great Britain
silver	France
bronze	BR Germany

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

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	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:

• 3: 37.9 min - France ( Bernadette Martin , Nicole Duclos , Éliane Jacq , Colette Besson ), 1st preliminary, September 19th
• 3: 33.9 min - Federal Republic of Germany ( Christa Czekay , Antje Gleichfeld , Inge Eckhoff , Christel Frese ), 2nd preliminary, September 19th
• 3: 30.8 min - Great Britain ( Rosemary Stirling , Pat Lowe , Janet Simpson , Lillian Board ), Finale, September 20
• 3: 30.8 min - France ( Bernadette Martin , Nicole Duclos , Éliane Jacq , Colette Besson ), final, September 20

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	France	Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Éliane Jacq Colette Besson	3: 37.9 CR
2	GDR	Waltraud Birnbaum Roswitha Becker Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middeke	3: 38.8
3	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Hagman Pirjo Wilmi Eeva Haimi	3: 40.7
4th	Sweden	Elisabeth Randerz Birgitta Larsson Ulla Ekblom Karin Lundgren	3: 41.1
5	Italy	Maria Bruni Armida Guzzetti Silvana Zangirolami Donata Govoni	3: 42.3 SB

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	BR Germany	Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese	3: 33.9 WR
2	Great Britain	Rosemary Stirling Pat Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board	3: 34.3
3	Soviet Union	Taissija Kovalevskaya Olga Klein Anna Dundare Raissa Nikanorowa	3: 34.5
4th	Hungary	Antónia Munkácsi Magdolna Kulcsar Rozalia Sefer Györgyi Balogh	3: 35.8 SB
5	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	Great Britain	Rosemary Stirling Pat Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board	3: 30.8 WR	3: 30.82
2	France	Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Éliane Jacq Colette Besson	3: 30.8 WR	3: 30.85
3	BR Germany	Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese	3: 32.7 DR	k. A.
4th	Soviet Union	Taissija Kovalevskaya Olga Klein Anna Dundare Raissa Nikanorowa	3: 33.7 SB
5	GDR	Waltraud Birnbaum Roswitha Becker Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middeke	3: 35.2 NO
6th	Sweden	Elisabeth Randerz Birgitta Larsson Ulla Ekblom Karin Lundgren	3: 35.4 SB
7th	Hungary	Antónia Munkácsi Magdolna Kulcsar Rozalia Sefer Györgyi Balogh	3: 36.6 SB
8th	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Hagman Pirjo Wilmi Eeva Haimi	3: 40.6 SB

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 15, 2019
• Women 4x400m Relay European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 4x400m Relay European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 411f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 4 × 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 15, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 15, 2019

References and comments

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