European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's pole vault
9th European Athletics Championships | |
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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 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) |
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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
September 20, 1969, 4:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Pole Vault Men , accessed June 10, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pole Vault Men , p. 23 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 10, 2019 (French / English)