European Athletics Championships 1969/4 × 400 m men
| 9th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
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| discipline | 4 × 100 m relay of men |
| city |
.svg){kind=small} Athens
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| Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
| Attendees | 10 relays with 40 athletes registered: 12 relays 2 teams waived |
| Competition phase | September 19th (preliminary) September 20th (final) |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
 France
|
 silver |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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 bronze |
 BR Germany
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The men's 4-by-400-meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19 and 20, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .
France became European champion with Gilles Bertould , Christian Nicolau , Jacques Carette and Jean-Claude Nallet . Second place went to the Soviet Union with Yevgeny Borissenko, Boris Savchuk , Yuri Sorin and Alexander Bratchikov. Bronze went to the Federal Republic of Germany ( Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske , Ingo Röper , Gerhard Hennige , Martin Jellinghaus ).
Records
Existing records
| World record | 2: 56.1 min |
 USA ( Vince Matthews , Ron Freeman , Larry James , Lee Evans ) |
OS Mexico City , Mexico |
20th October 1968 |
| European record | 3: 00.5 min |
Federal Republic of Germany ( Helmar Müller , Manfred Kinder , Gerhard Hennige , Martin Jellinghaus ) |
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.svg){kind=small} Poland ( Stanisław Grędziński , Jan Balachowski , Jan Werner , Andrzej Badeński ) |
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| EM record | 3: 04.5 min |
Poland ( Jan Werner , Edmund Borowski, Stanisław Grędziński , Andrzej Badeński ) |
EM Budapest , Hungary |
4th September 1966 |
Record improvement
The existing European championship record was improved by the French European championship relay consisting of Gilles Bertould , Christian Nicolau , Jacques Carette and Jean-Claude Nallet in the final on September 10th by 2.2 seconds to 3: 02.3 minutes.
Preliminary round
September 19, 1969, 8:20 pm
The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
The second run turned into a farce. The two squadrons reported from Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia withdrew, so that only four teams were at the start. They only had to reach the goal to be in the final. In this way, the teams completed the race at a leisurely pace, saving energy, with safety changes. The winning relay was more than twenty seconds slower than the winners of the first heat.
Forward 1
| space | Season | occupation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
BR Germany
|
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Gerhard Hennige Ingo Röper Martin Jellinghaus |
3: 06.0 |
| 2 |
France
|
Jacques Carette Christian Nicolau Gilles Bertould Jean-Claude Nallet |
3: 09.9 |
| 3 |
 Italy
|
Furio Fusi Giacomo Puosi Claudio Trachello Sergio Bello |
3: 09.9 |
| 4th |
 Belgium
|
René Bervoets Tony Goovaerts Karel Brems Willy Vandenwyngaerden |
3: 10.4 |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
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Georgi Ganchew Zlatko Waltschew Christo Gergow Georgi Boschkow |
3: 10.9 |
| 6th |
Greece
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Haris Dimitriou Stavros Tziortzis Dionyssios Hatzidakis Konstantinos Mihailidis |
3: 15.4 |
Forward 2
| space | Season | occupation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Great Britain
|
Gwynne Griffith John Robertson Colin Campbell Martin Winbolt-Lewis |
3: 28.9 |
| 2 |
Soviet Union
|
Yevgeny Borissenko Yuri Sorin Boris Savchuk Alexander Bratchikov |
3: 33.8 |
| 3 |
 Sweden
|
Goals Nilsson Lars Gustafsson Michael Fredriksson Ulf Nilsson |
3: 35.1 |
| 4th |
Poland
|
Jan Balachowski Stanisław Grędziński Andrzej Badeński Jan Werner |
3: 43.2 |
final
September 20, 1969, 8:30 p.m.
| space | Season | occupation |
Official time (min) hand-stopped |
Unofficial time (min) electronically |
| 1 |
France
|
Gilles Bertould Christian Nicolau Jacques Carette Jean-Claude Nallet |
3: 02.3 CR | 3: 02.30 |
| 2 |
Soviet Union
|
Yevgeny Borissenko Boris Savchuk Yuri Sorin Alexander Bratchikov |
3: 03.0 SB | 3: 03.05 |
| 3 |
BR Germany
|
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Ingo Röper Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus |
3: 03.1 | 3: 03.13 |
| 4th |
Poland
|
Jan Balachowski Stanisław Grędziński Andrzej Badeński Jan Werner |
3: 03.1 SB | 3: 03.16 |
| 5 |
Italy
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Claudio Trachello Sergio Bello Giacomo Puosi Furio Fusi |
3: 04.1 | k. A. |
| 6th |
Great Britain
|
Gwynne Griffith Colin Campbell Martin Winbolt-Lewis John Robertson |
3: 04.2 SB | |
| 7th |
Sweden
|
Goals Nilsson Michael Fredriksson Lars Gustafsson Ulf Nilsson |
3: 08.9 SB | |
| 8th |
Belgium
|
René Bervoets Tony Goovaerts Karel Brems Willy Vandenwyngaerden |
3: 10.8 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
- Men 4x400m 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 4x400m 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 × 400 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 400 m , accessed on June 9, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 400 m on rfea.es, p. 35 (PDF, 271 kB). French / English, accessed June 9, 2019