European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's high jump

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 18 (qualification) September 19 (final)
Medalist
gold	Valentin Gavrilow ( URS )
silver	Reijo Vähälä ( FIN )
bronze	Erminio Azzaro ( ITA )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 18 and 19, 1969 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

The European champion was the Soviet Olympic third from 1968 Valentin Gavrilow . He won ahead of the Finn Reijo Vähälä. The Italian Erminio Azzaro took third place.

Existing records

World record	2.28 m	Valery Brumel	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 21, 1963
European record
EM record	2.21 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

The EM record, which has existed since 1962 , was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

September 19, 1969, 9:00 a.m.

The 23 participants competed in two groups for qualification. The qualification height for the direct entry into the finals was 2.14 m, which no athlete had to tackle, however, as it was already apparent beforehand that a lower height would be sufficient for participation in the finals. In this way, the twelve best athletes were eligible to participate in the finals. With the twelfth-placed athlete, three other participants also jumped over the height of 2.08 m. The failed attempt rule was not applied in the qualification, so that finally fifteen high jumpers could compete in the final on the following day (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)	annotation
1	Erminio Azzaro	Italy	2.11
	Istvan Major	Hungary	2.11
	Luis Garriga	Spain	2.11 PB
	Jan Dahlgren	Sweden	2.11 SBe
	Sergei Martynov	Soviet Union	2.11 PB
6th	Reijo Vähälä	Finland	2.08	2.08 in the 1st attempt
7th	Christian Le Hérissé	France	2.05 PB
8th	Ioannis Kousoulas	Greece	2.05 SB
9	Csaba Dosa	Romania	2.05 SB
10	Rudolf Baudis	Czechoslovakia	2.05 PB
11	Herbert Huettl	GDR	2.00 PB
12	Murat Ayat	Turkey	1.95 PB

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)	annotation
1	Valentin Gavrilov	Soviet Union	2.11
	József Tihányi	Hungary	2.11 SB
	Ladislav Borodáč	Czechoslovakia	2.11 PB
	Valery Skvortsov	Soviet Union	2.11 SB
	Serban Ioan	Romania	2.11 SB
	Christer Celion	Sweden	2.11
7th	Henri Elliott	France	2.08	2.08 in the 2nd attempt
8th	Robert Sainte-Rose	France	2.08 SB	2.08 in the 3rd attempt
	Miodrag Todosijević	Yugoslavia	2.08 SB	2.08 in the 3rd attempt
10	Thomas Wiesser	Switzerland	2.05 PB
11	Michel Portmann	Switzerland	2.05 PB

final

19th September 1969

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Valentin Gavrilov	Soviet Union	2.17
2	Reijo Vähälä	Finland	2.17 PB
3	Erminio Azzaro	Italy	2.17 SB
4th	Henri Elliott	France	2.14 SB
5	Istvan Major	Hungary	2.14 SB
6th	Christer Celion	Sweden	2.14 SBe
7th	József Tihányi	Hungary	2.11 SBe
8th	Valery Skvortsov	Soviet Union	2.08
	Ladislav Borodáč	Czechoslovakia	2.08
10	Luis Garriga	Spain	2.08
	Miodrag Todosijević	Yugoslavia	2.08 SBe
	Robert Sainte-Rose	France	2.08 SBe
13	Serban Ioan	Romania	2.08
14th	Jan Dahlgren	Sweden	2.00
15th	Sergei Martynov	Soviet Union	2.00

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 4, 2019
• Men High Jump European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 4, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 4, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 407 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 4, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 4, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed May 25, 2019