European Athletics Championships 1969 / women's javelin
| 9th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | Women's javelin throw |
| city |
.svg){kind=small} Athens
|
| Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
| Participants | 10 athletes from 6 countries |
| Competition phase | September 18 |
| Medalists | |
 gold |
Angéla Ránky ( HUN )
 |
 silver |
Magda Vidos ( HUN )
|
 bronze |
Valentina Ewert ( URS )
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The women's javelin at the European Athletics Championships 1969 was held on September 18, 1969 in Athens' Karaiskakis Stadium .
There was a Hungarian double victory here. The European champion was the 1968 Olympic champion Angéla Ránky - the year before she had started under her name Angéla Németh. Magda Vidos won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Soviet thrower Walentina Ewert.
Records
Existing records
| World record | 62.40 m |
Jelena Gorchakova
|
OS Tokyo , Japan | October 16, 1964 |
| European record | ||||
| EM record | 59.70 m |
 Marion Lüttge
|
EM Budapest , Hungary | 2nd September 1966 |
Record improvement
European champion Angéla Ránky improved the existing EM record in the final on September 18 by six centimeters to 59.76 m.
execution
As in all other throwing disciplines, the intended qualification - planned in the javelin throw for September 17, 1969, 10:00 a.m. - was omitted due to the small number of athletes. Only ten female throwers took part.
final
September 18, 1969, 3 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angéla Ránky |
Hungary
|
59.76 CR |
| 2 | Magda Vidos |
Hungary
|
58.80 PB |
| 3 | Valentina Ewert |
Soviet Union
|
56.56 PB |
| 4th | Nataša Urbančič |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
55.68 SB |
| 5 | Nina Marakina |
Soviet Union
|
55.34 SB |
| 6th | Daniela Jaworska |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
55.16 SB |
| 7th | Marion Lüttge |
GDR
|
53.76 SB |
| 8th | Cecylia Bajer |
Poland
|
50.54 SB |
| 9 | Vera Savinkova |
Soviet Union
|
46.88 PB |
| 10 | Arja Mustakallio |
 Finland
|
40.80 PB |
In the year after the Olympic victory - then as Angéla Németh - now the European Championship title for Angéla Ránky
Fourth place for the 1968 Olympic sixth Nataša Urbančič - she had also reached the European Championship finals in 1966 , but remained there without a valid attempt
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 16, 2019
- Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 16, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 16, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 411 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 16, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 16, 2019
- 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 16, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed June 16, 2019