European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's triple jump
9th European Athletics Championships | |
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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 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) |
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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) |
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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
September 17, 1969, 4:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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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
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed June 11, 2019