1969 European Athletics Championships

The 1969 European Athletics Championships were the ninth European Athletics Championships which were held from 16–21 September 1969 at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, 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]}

9th European Athletics Championships
Dates	16–21 September
Host city	Piraeus, Greece
Venue	Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	38
Participation	674 athletes from 30 nations
← 1966 Budapest 1971 Helsinki →

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
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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Petra Vogt (GDR)	11.6	Wilma van den Berg (NED)	11.7	Anita Neil (GBR)	11.8
200 metres details	Petra Vogt (GDR)	23.2	Renate Meissner (GDR)	23.3	Val Peat (GBR)	23.3
400 metres details	Nicole Duclos (FRA)	51.7 (WR) (51.72) CR	Colette Besson (FRA)	51.7 (WR) (51.74)	Maria Sykora (AUT)	53.0
800 metres details	Lillian Board (GBR)	2:01.4 CR	Anneliese Damm Olesen (DEN)	2:02.6	Vera Nikolić (YUG)	2:02.6
1500 metres details	Jaroslava Jehličková (TCH)	4:10.7 (WR)	Maria Gommers (NED)	4:11.9	Paola Pigni (ITA)	4:12.0
100 metres hurdles details	Karin Balzer (GDR)	13.29	Bärbel Podeswa (GDR)	13.68	Teresa Nowak (POL)	13.77
4 × 100 metres relay details	East Germany Regina Hofer Renate Meissner Bärbel Podeswa Petra Vogt	43.63 CR	West Germany Bärbel Hohnle Jutta Stock Rita Jahn-Wilden Ingrid Becker	44.09	Great Britain Anita Neil Denise Ramsden Sheila Cooper Val Peat	44.39
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain Rosemary Stirling Pat Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board	3:30.8 (WR)	France Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Eliane Jacq Colette Besson	3:30.8 (WR)	West Germany Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese	3:32.7
High jump details	Miloslava Rezková (TCH)	1.83 m =CR	Antonina Lazareva (URS)	1.83 m	Mária Mračnová (TCH)	1.83 m
Long jump details	Mirosława Sarna (POL)	6.49 m	Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROU)	6.45 m	Berit Berthelsen (NOR)	6.44 m
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	20.43 m (WR) CR	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	19.58 m	Marita Lange (GDR)	19.56 m
Discus throw details	Tamara Danilova (URS)	59.28 m CR	Lyudmila Muravyova (URS)	59.24 m	Karin Illgen (GDR)	58.66 m
Javelin throw details	Angéla Németh (HUN)	59.76 m CR	Magda Vidos (HUN)	58.80 m	Valentina Evert (URS)	56.56 m
Pentathlon details	Liese Prokop (AUT)	5030 pts CR	Meta Antenen (SUI)	4793 pts	Mariya Sizyakova (URS)	4773 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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)