1969 European Athletics Championships
9th European Athletics Championships | |
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Dates | 16 – 21 September |
Host city | Athens, Greece |
Venue | Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
Events | 38 |
Participation | 674 athletes from 30 nations |
← 1966 Budapest 1971 Helsinki → |
The 9th European Athletics Championships were held from 16–21 September 1969 in the Karaiskaki Stadium of Athens, the capital of Greece. New at these championships were the women's 1500 metres and the women's 4×400 metres relay event. Moreover, women's 80 metres hurdles was replaced by women's 100 metres hurdles. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[clarification needed][1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Former East German runner Jürgen May, who had defected, was not allowed to compete for his new country, West Germany, due to IAAF rules requiring him to live there for at least three years; he had competed for East Germany in the 1966 championships.[2] West German officials promptly withdrew their athletes from all individual events in protest, but decided to compete in the relay races as a symbolic gesture to show their respect for the Greek organisers.[3]
The Dutch decathlete Edward de Noorlander was disqualified for the use of amphetamine, the first disqualification for doping in athletics.[8][9]
Medal summary
Complete results were published.[10]
Men
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres details | Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 10.4 | Alain Sarteur (FRA) | 10.4 | Philippe Clerc (SUI) | 10.5 |
200 metres details | Philippe Clerc (SUI) | 20.6 CR | Herman Burde (GDR) | 20.9 | Zenon Nowosz (POL) | 20.9 |
400 metres details | Jan Werner (POL) | 45.7 CR | Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA) | 45.8 | Stanisław Grędziński (POL) | 45.8 |
800 metres details | Dieter Fromm (GDR) | 1:45.9 =CR | Jozef Plachý (TCH) | 1:46.2 | Manfred Matuschewski (GDR) | 1:46.8 |
1500 metres details | John Whetton (GBR) | 3:39.4 CR | Frank Murphy (IRL) | 3:39.5 | Henryk Szordykowski (POL) | 3:39.8 |
5000 metres details | Ian Stewart (GBR) | 13:44.8 | Rashid Sharafetdinov (URS) | 13:45.8 | Alan Blinston (GBR) | 13:47.6 |
10,000 metres details | Jürgen Haase (GDR) | 28:41.6 | Michael Tagg (GBR) | 28:43.2 | Nikolay Sviridov (URS) | 28:45.8 |
110 metres hurdles details | Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 13.5 CR | David Hemery (GBR) | 13.7 | Alan Pascoe (GBR) | 13.9 |
400 metres hurdles details | Vyacheslav Skomorokhov (URS) | 49.7 | John Sherwood (GBR) | 50.1 | Andrew Todd (GBR) | 50.3 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Mikhail Zhelev (BUL) | 8:25.0 CR | Aleksandr Morozov (URS) | 8:25.6 | Vladimir Dudin (URS) | 8:26.6 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | France Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François St.-Gilles | 38.8 CR | Soviet Union Aleksandr Lebedev Vladislav Sapeya Nikolay Ivanov Valeriy Borzov | 39.3 | Czechoslovakia Ladislav Kříž Dionys Szogedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman | 39.5 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | France Gilles Bertould Christian Nicolau Jacques Carette Jean-Claude Nallet | 3:02.3 CR | Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko Boris Savchuk Yuriy Zorin Aleksandr Bratchikov | 3:03.0 | West Germany Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Ingo Röper Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus | 3:03.1 |
Marathon details | Ron Hill (GBR) | 2:16:47.8 | Gaston Roelants (BEL) | 2:17:22.2 | Jim Alder (GBR) | 2:19:05.8 |
20 kilometres walk details | Paul Nihill (GBR) | 1:30:48.0 | Leonida Karaiosifoglu (ROU) | 1:31:06.4 | Nikolay Smaga (URS) | 1:31:20.2 |
50 kilometres walk details | Christoph Höhne (GDR) | 4:12:32.8 CR | Peter Selzer (GDR) | 4:16:09.6 | Veniamin Soldatenko (URS) | 4:23:04.8 |
High jump details | Valentin Gavrilov (URS) | 2.17 m | Reijo Vähälä (FIN) | 2.17 m | Erminio Azzaro (ITA) | 2.17 m |
Pole vault details | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.30 m CR | Kjell Isaksson (SWE) | 5.20 m | Aldo Righi (ITA) | 5.10 m |
Long jump details[nb1] | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 8.17 m w | Lynn Davies (GBR) | 8.07 m w | Tõnu Lepik (URS) | 8.04 m w |
Triple jump details | Viktor Saneyev (URS) | 17.34 m [nb2] | Zoltán Cziffra (HUN) | 16.85 m | Klaus Neumann (GDR) | 16.68 m |
Shot put details | Dieter Hoffmann (GDR) | 20.12 m CR | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR) | 20.05 m | Hans-Peter Gies (GDR) | 19.78 m |
Discus throw details | Hartmut Losch (GDR) | 61.82 m CR | Ricky Bruch (SWE) | 61.08 m | Lothar Milde (GDR) | 59.34 m |
Hammer throw details | Anatoliy Bondarchuk (URS) | 74.68 m (WR) CR | Romuald Klim (URS) | 72.74 m | Reinhard Theimer (GDR) | 72.02 m |
Javelin throw details | Jānis Lūsis (URS) | 91.52 m CR | Pauli Nevala (FIN) | 89.58 m | Janusz Sidło (POL) | 82.90 m |
Decathlon details | Joachim Kirst (GDR) | 8041 pts CR | Herbert Wessel (GDR) | 7828 pts | Viktor Chelnikov (URS) | 7801 pts |
- nb1 Max Klauß from East Germany jumped 8.00 in the final, which was a new championship record.
- nb2 Probably wind assisted. As of statistic handbooks Viktor Saneyev's mark wasn't ratified as a new championship record.
Women
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | East Germany (GDR) | 11 | 7 | 7 | 25 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 9 | 7 | 8 | 24 |
3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 6 | 4 | 7 | 17 |
4 | France (FRA) | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
6 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 |
7 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
8 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
9 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
10 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
11 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
12 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Romania (ROU) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
16 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
17 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
20 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (21 entries) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 114 |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 675 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event, one athlete more than the official number of 674 as published.[11]
- Austria (9)
- Belgium (18)
- Bulgaria (19)
- Czechoslovakia (27)
- Denmark (8)
- East Germany (60)
- Finland (24)
- France (57)
- Gibraltar (1)
- Greece (24)
- Hungary (32)
- Iceland (3)
- Ireland (4)
- Italy (36)
- Liechtenstein (1)
- Luxembourg (4)
- Malta (1)
- Netherlands (9)
- Norway (18)
- Poland (51)
- Portugal (4)
- Romania (17)
- Soviet Union (79)
- Spain (6)
- Sweden (29)
- Switzerland (19)
- Turkey (10)
- Great Britain (71)
- West Germany (16)
- Yugoslavia (18)
References
- ^ Marshall, Ron (September 15, 1969), British have talent and determination to win 12 medals, Glasgow Herald, p. 5, retrieved September 5, 2014
- ^ a b Athletics - May struck out of West German team, Glasgow Herald, September 16, 1969, p. 25, retrieved September 5, 2014
- ^ a b Nihill gives Britain her first gold medal, Glasgow Herald, September 17, 1969, p. 7, retrieved September 5, 2014
- ^ Anita Neil gives Britain unexpected bronze medal, Glasgow Herald, September 18, 1969, p. 6, retrieved September 5, 2014
- ^ Majestic run by Miss Board in 800 metres final, Glasgow Herald, September 19, 1969, p. 6, retrieved September 5, 2014
- ^ Steward dictates tactics in searing 5000 victory, Glasgow Herald, September 20, 1969, p. 4, retrieved September 5, 2014
- ^ Hill's thrilling marathon win gives Britain sixth gold medal, Glasgow Herald, September 22, 1969, retrieved September 5, 2014
- ^ Cashmore, Ellis; Cashmore, Ernest (2002), Sports Culture: An A-Z Guide, Taylor & Francis, 2003, p. 92, ISBN 978-0-415-28555-1, retrieved 6 September 2014
- ^ Sport & Santé - Dopage - Les amphétamines : exemples (in French), archived from the original on 17 September 2018, retrieved 6 September 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 405–412, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
- Results
- "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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