European Athletics Championships 1969 / men's long jump

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 17th (qualification) September 18th (final)
Medalist
gold	Igor Ter-Owanessjan ( URS )
silver	Lynn Davies ( GBR )
bronze	Tõnu Lepik ( URS )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The men's long jump at the European Athletics Championships 1969 was held on September 17 and 18, 1969 in Athens' Karaiskakis Stadium .

In this competition, the long jumpers from the USSR won two medals, gold and bronze. European champion became the European champion of 1958 / 1962 and EM -Second of 1966 Igor Ter-Owanessjan - also two-time Olympic third parties. He won ahead of British defending champion and 1964 Olympic champion Lynn Davies . Bronze went to Tõnu Lepik .

Records

Existing records

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record	8.35 m	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1967
Championship record	7.98 m	Lynn Davies	EM Budapest , Hungary	August 31, 1966

Record improvement

In the final there were a number of jumps that exceeded the existing championship record. In most of these attempts, however, the tailwind was more than 2.0 m / s, so that many distances were not ready for the best of the best. The result of sixth-placed Max Klauß , who improved the European Championship record in the final on September 18, 1969, by two centimeters to 8.00 m, was recognizable.  

qualification

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

25 participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.65 m. Since only four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best-placed athletes to actually twelve jumpers. Since there were three athletes with identical distance from eleventh onwards, nine other participants (highlighted in light green), a total of thirteen athletes, were admitted to the final on the following day. The rule of placing over the better second best attempt in each case did not apply in the qualification with regard to the selection for the finals in ranks eleven to thirteen. In the end, 7.65 m was enough for participation in the finals.

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	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	B.	7.56	7.87	-	7.87
2	Klaus Beer	GDR	B.	7.82	-	-	7.82
3	Leonid Barkowskyj	Soviet Union	B.	7.79	-	-	7.79
4th	Vasile Sărucan	Romania	k. A.	k. A.			7.66
5	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	B.	7.64	k. A.		7.64
6th	Christian Tourret	France	B.	k. A.			7.58
7th	Gérard Ugolini	France	A.	x	7.32	7.57	7.57
8th	Jack Pani	France	A.	x	k. A.		7.56
9	Tõnu Lepik	Soviet Union	A.	k. A.			7.54
10	Max Klauss	GDR	A.	k. A.			7.53
11	Terje Haugland	Norway	B.	k. A.			7.35
12	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	A.	k. A.			7.35
13	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	B.	k. A.			7.35
14th	Zdzisław Kokot	Poland	A.	k. A.			7.30
15th	Stanislaw Cabaj	Poland	k. A.	k. A.			7.27
16	Finn Bendixen	Norway	k. A.	k. A.			7.27
17th	Hannu Kyösola	Finland	k. A.	k. A.			7.24
18th	Mihail Zaharia	Romania	A.	k. A.			7.23
19th	Waldemar Stępień	Poland	A.	x	k. A.		7.23
20th	Rafael Blanquer	Spain	k. A.	x	7.22	7.06	7.22
21st	Alan Lerwill	Great Britain	k. A.	k. A.			7.20
22nd	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia	k. A.	k. A.			7.15
23	Lars-Olof Höök	Sweden	k. A.	k. A.			7.13
24	Philippe Houssiaux	France	k. A.	k. A.			7.07
25th	Pertti Pousi	Finland	k. A.	x	x	6.81	6.81

final

After two EM victories and a second place, Igor Ter-Owanessjan became European champion for the third time

September 18, 1969, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	8.17 w	+4.4
2	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	8.07 w	+2.2
3	Tõnu Lepik	Soviet Union	8.04 w	+4.2
4th	Klaus Beer	GDR	8.03 w	+3.2
5	Leonid Barkowskyj	Soviet Union	8.02 w	+2.4
6th	Max Klauss	GDR	8.00 CR	+0.8
7th	Jack Pani	France	7.87 w	+2.6
8th	Gérard Ugolini	France	7.87 SB	+0.8
9	Christian Tourret	France	7.82 w	+3.0
10	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	7.78 w	+2.3
11	Terje Haugland	Norway	7.58 w	+2.8
12	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	7.41 SB	+1.8
13	Vasile Sărucan	Romania	7.34	+1.2

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  Defending champion Lynn Davies - including Olympic champion in 1964 - won silver this time

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  The 1968 Olympic runner-up, Klaus Beer, came fourth

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  Max Klauß came in sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 11, 2019
• Men Long Jump 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 Long Jump 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, long jump men 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. Long jump , accessed June 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 11, 2019 (French / English)