European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's triple jump

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's triple jump
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 16 (qualification) September 17 (final)
Medalist
gold	Viktor Saneyev ( URS )
silver	Zoltán Cziffra ( HUN )
bronze	Klaus Neumann ( GDR )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's triple jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 16 and 17, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

The 1968 Olympic champion Viktor Saneyev from the Soviet Union became European champion . Second place went to the Hungarian Zoltán Cziffra. Bronze went to the GDR athlete Klaus Neumann .

Records

Existing records

World record	17.39 m	Viktor Saneyev	OS Mexico City , Mexico	17th October 1968
European record
Championship record	16.67 m	Georgi Stojkowski	EM Budapest , Hungary	4th September 1966

Record improvements

The existing EM record was improved twice at these European Championships:

• 16.78 m - Klaus Neumann , qualification September 16
• 17.34 m - Viktor Saneyev , final September 17th

qualification

September 16, 1969, 5:00 p.m.

Sixteen participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final was 16.10 m. Eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athlete to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.04 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Klaus Neumann	GDR	16.78 CR
2	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.76 SB
3	Mikalaj Dudkin	Soviet Union	16.65 SB
4th	Tony Wadhams	Great Britain	16.49
5	Serge Firca	France	16.40 PB
6th	Georgi Stojkowski	Bulgaria	16.39 SB
7th	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	16.15
8th	Raymond Privé	France	15.52 PB

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	16.66
2	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	16.21 SB
3	Jörg Drehel	GDR	16.15
4th	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.11 SB
5	Kristen Fløgstad	Norway	16.04 SB
6th	Andrzej Lasocki	Poland	16.00 SB
7th	Birger Nyberg	Sweden	15.85 SB
8th	Evangelos Vlasis	Greece	15.78 PB

final

European champion Viktor Saneyev, shown on a postage stamp - in his career one of the Olympic champions in 1968 . 1972 and  1976

September 17, 1969, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	17.34 CR
2	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	16.85
3	Klaus Neumann	GDR	16.68
4th	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.56
5	Mikalaj Dudkin	Soviet Union	16.46
6th	Jörg Drehel	GDR	16.23 SB
7th	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.03
8th	Serge Firca	France	15.94
9	Tony Wadhams	Great Britain	15.90
10	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	15.79
11	Kristen Fløgstad	Norway	15.71
12	Georgi Stojkowski	Bulgaria	15.14 SB

The test series of the European champion Viktor Saneyev was as follows:
17.34 m - 16.30 m - 16.61 m - 16.85 m - 16.94 m - 16.94 m

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  Bronze medal winner Klaus Neumann (on the photo collage below right)

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  Jörg Drehmel came in sixth place - in 1971 he was the next European champion and in 1972 won Olympic silver

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 11, 2019
• Men Triple Jump European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Triple Jump European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 407 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, triple jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 11, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed June 11, 2019