European Athletics Championships 1969 / Men's Shot Put

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 17th (qualification) September 18th (final)
Medalist
gold	Dieter Hoffmann ( GDR )
silver	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg ( GDR )
bronze	Hans-Peter Gies ( GDR )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The shot put men at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was on 17 and 18 September 1969 in Athens Karaiskakis Stadium discharged.

In this competition there was a triple success for the shot putter of the GDR. European champion was Dieter Hoffmann . He won ahead of Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg . Bronze went to the European record holder, Hans-Peter Gies .

Records

Existing records

World record	21.78 m	Randy Matson	College Station , USA	April 22, 1967
European record	20.64 m	Hans-Peter Gies	Budapest , Hungary	June 28, 1969
Championship record	19.43 m	Vilmos Varjú	EM Budapest , Hungary	3rd September 1966

Record improvements

European champion Dieter Hoffmann improved the EM record at these European championships twice:

• 19.72 m - qualification on September 17th
• 20.12 m - final on September 18

qualification

September 17, 1969, 10:00 a.m.

22 participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.80 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 18.41 m was enough for the final.

Some athletes know which qualification group they belonged to, while others do not. Therefore, the table below provides a general overview of the results from both groups.

space	Surname	nation	group	Width (m)
1	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	B.	19.72 CR
2	Hans-Peter Gies	GDR	A.	19.51
3	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	A.	19.51
4th	Matti Yrjölä	Finland	B.	19.18
5	Pierre Colnard	France	B.	18.96
6th	Nikolai Karassev	Soviet Union	A.	18.83 SB
7th	Eduard Gushchin	Soviet Union	B.	18.80
8th	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	B.	18.62
9	Yves Brouzet	France	A.	18.54 SB
10	Edy Hubacher	Switzerland	B.	18.48
11	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	A.	18.47
12	Seppo Simola	Finland	A.	18.41
13	Flavio Asta	Italy	A.	18.34
14th	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	k. A.	18.34
15th	Bengt Bendeus	Sweden	A.	18.21
16	Sándor Holub	Hungary	A.	17.92 SB
17th	Arnjolt Beer	France	k. A.	17.78 SB
18th	Jeff Teale	Great Britain	A.	17.77 PB
19th	Thord Carlsson	Sweden	k. A.	17.76
20th	Hannes Schulze-Bauer	Austria	k. A.	17.42
21st	Georgios Lemonis	Greece	k. A.	17.38 PB
22nd	Guðmundur Hermansson	Iceland	k. A.	17.16 PB

final

After his fourth place at the 1968 Olympic Games , Dieter Hoffmann became European champion

September 18, 1969, 3 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	20.12 CR
2	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	20.05 SB
3	Hans-Peter Gies	GDR	19.78 SB
4th	Matti Yrjölä	Finland	19.27 SB
5	Pierre Colnard	France	19.06 SB
6th	Eduard Gushchin	Soviet Union	18.91 SB
7th	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	18.87 SB
8th	Nikolai Karassev	Soviet Union	18.71
9	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	18.67 SB
10	Edy Hubacher	Switzerland	18.67
11	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.65 SB
12	Yves Brouzet	France	18.42

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  Vice European Champion Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg

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  European record holder Hans-Peter Gies rounded off the success of the GDR shot putter with bronze

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  Edy Hubacher - here after his career end - finished tenth, having previously eleventh place in a day Discus reached

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 11, 2019
• Men Shot Put 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 Shot Put 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, men's shot put 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. Shot put, men , accessed June 11, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 11, 2019