European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's hammer throw
9th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's hammer throw |
city | Athens |
Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
Attendees | 19 athletes from 14 countries |
Competition phase | September 19 (qualification) September 20 (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Anatoly Bondarchuk ( URS ) |
silver | Ramuald Klim ( URS ) |
bronze | Reinhard Theimer ( GDR ) |
The men's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19 and 20, 1969 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .
In this competition, the Soviet hammer throwers achieved a double victory. Anatolij Bondarchuk became European champion . In doing so, he set a new world record. He won before the Olympic champion from 1964 , Olympic champion from 1968 , previous world record holder and defending champion Ramuald Klim . Bronze went to the GDR athlete Reinhard Theimer .
Records
Existing records
World record | 74.52 m | Ramuald Klim | Budapest , Hungary | 15th June 1969 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 70.02 m | EM Budapest , Hungary | 4th September 1966 |
Record improvements
The existing EM record was improved twice at these European Championships:
- 71.06 m - Reinhard Theimer , qualification on September 19
- 74.68 m - Anatolij Bondarchuk , final on September 20
The winning distance of the new European champion Anatolij Bondarchuk also represented a new world record.
qualification
September 19, 1969, 10:00 a.m.
Nineteen participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 66.00 m. Since only seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.08 m was enough for the final.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Reinhard Theimer | GDR | 71.06 CR |
2 | Gyula Zsivótzky | Hungary | 69.98 SB |
3 | Anatoly Bondarchuk | Soviet Union | 69.06 |
4th | Ramuald Klim | Soviet Union | 68.50 |
5 | Lázár Lovász | Hungary | 66.86 |
6th | Jochen Sachse | GDR | 66.72 |
7th | Sándor Eckschmiedt | Hungary | 66.68 SB |
8th | Kauko Harlos | Finland | 64.74 |
9 | Howard Payne | Great Britain | 64.58 |
10 | Johann Pötsch | Austria | 63.20 |
11 | Lars-Inge Ström | Sweden | 62.70 |
12 | Dimitar Mindow | Bulgaria | 62.08 PB |
13 | Georgios Babaniotis | Greece | 61.98 SB |
14th | Ernst Ammann | Switzerland | 60.88 SB |
15th | Jacques Accambray | France | 60.76 SB |
16 | Carlos Sustelo | Portugal | 60.54 PB |
17th | Stanisław Lubiejewski | Poland | 59.50 SB |
18th | Gérard Chadefaux | France | 59.42 |
19th | Erlendur Valdimarsson | Iceland | 51.04 PB |
final
September 20, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Anatoly Bondarchuk | Soviet Union | 74.68 WR |
2 | Ramuald Klim | Soviet Union | 72.74 |
3 | Reinhard Theimer | GDR | 72.02 SB |
4th | Gyula Zsivótzky | Hungary | 69.68 |
5 | Jochen Sachse | GDR | 68.60 SB |
6th | Lázár Lovász | Hungary | 66.90 SB |
7th | Sándor Eckschmiedt | Hungary | 66.02 |
8th | Howard Payne | Great Britain | 65.90 SB |
9 | Kauko Harlos | Finland | 65.16 SB |
10 | Johann Pötsch | Austria | 64.00 PB |
11 | Dimitar Mindow | Bulgaria | 61.48 |
12 | Lars-Inge Ström | Sweden | 61.44 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 12, 2019
- Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 12, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 12, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 408 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 12, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, men's hammer throw on sportschau.de, accessed on June 12, 2019
- 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 12, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed June 12, 2019