European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's pole vault

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	15 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 19 (qualification) September 20 (final)
Medalist
gold	Wolfgang Nordwig ( GDR )
silver	Kjell Isaksson ( SWE )
bronze	Aldo Righi ( ITA )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's pole vault at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19 and 20, 1969 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

The European champion was the Olympic third from 1968 and defending champion Wolfgang Nordwig from the GDR. He won ahead of Sweden's Kjell Isaksson . Bronze went to the Italian Aldo Righi.

Records

Existing records

World record	5.44 m	John Pennel	Sacramento , USA	June 21, 1969
European record	5.40 m	Claus Schiprowski	OS Tokyo , Japan	October 16, 1968
		Wolfgang Nordwig
EM record	5.10 m	Wolfgang Nordwig	EM in Budapest , Hungary	2nd September 1966

Record improvement

European champion Wolfgang Nordwig improved his own championship record in the final on September 20 by twenty centimeters to 5.30 meters.  

qualification

September 19, 1969, 10:00 a.m.

The fifteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 4.80 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So, in the end, 4.70 m was enough for the final. Only three athletes were eliminated.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	4.80
	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	4.80
	Aldo Righi	Italy	4.80
	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	4.80
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	4.80
	Gianfranco Mariani	Italy	4.80 PB
	Joachim Bear	GDR	4.80
	Alain-Pierre Legrain	France	4.80 PB
9	Mike Bull	Great Britain	4.70
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	4.70
	Erkki Mustakari	Finland	4.70
	Yuri Issakov	Soviet Union	4.70 SB
13	Robert Steinhacker	Hungary	4.50 PB
NM	François Tracanelli	France	without height
	Renato Dionisi	Italy

final

Victory for the defending champion and Olympic third party from 1968 Wolfgang Nordwig

September 20, 1969, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	5.30 CR
2	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.20 SB
3	Aldo Righi	Italy	5.10 PB
4th	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	5.00 SB
5	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	5.00
6th	Joachim Bear	GDR	5.00 PB
7th	Mike Bull	Great Britain	5.00 PB
8th	Erkki Mustakari	Finland	4.90 SB
9	Alain-Pierre Legrain	France	4.80 PBe
10	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	4.70
11	Gianfranco Mariani	Italy	4.70
NM	Yuri Issakov	Soviet Union	without height

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 10, 2019
• Men Pole Vault European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 10, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 10, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole_Vault European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 407 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, men's pole vault on sportschau.de, accessed on June 10, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole Vault Men , accessed June 10, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pole Vault Men , p. 23 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 10, 2019 (French / English)