1969 European Athletics Championships
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| 9th European Athletics Championships | |
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| Host city | Athens, Greece |
| Date(s) | 16 – 21 September 1969 |
| Main stadium | Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Participation | 674 athletes from 30 nations |
| Events | 38 |
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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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Former East German runner Jürgen May who defected was not allowed to compete for his new country West Germany, because IAAF rules require him to live there for at least three years, as he competed already for East Germany in the 1966 championships.[2] As a consequence, West German officials withdrew their athletes from all individual events, and decided to compete only in the relay races as a symbolic gesture not to disrespect the organising country.[3]
The Dutch decathlete Edward de Noorlander was disqualified for the use of amphetamine, the first disqualification for doping in athletics.[8][9]
Contents
Medal summary
Complete results were published.[10]
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| 100 metres |
 Valeriy Borzov (URS) |
10.4 |  Alain Sarteur (FRA) |
10.4 |  Philippe Clerc (SUI) |
10.5 |
| 200 metres |
Philippe Clerc (SUI) |
20.6 |  Herman Burde (GDR) |
20.9 |  Zenon Nowosz (POL) |
20.9 |
| 400 metres |
Jan Werner (POL) |
45.7 | Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA) |
45.8 | Stanisław Grędziński (POL) |
45.8 |
| 800 metres |
Dieter Fromm (GDR) |
1:45.9 |  Jozef Plachý (TCH) |
1:46.2 | Manfred Matuschewski (GDR) |
1:46.8 |
| 1500 metres |
 John Whetton (GBR) |
3:39.4 |  Frank Murphy (IRL) |
3:39.5 | Henryk Szordykowski (POL) |
3:39.8 |
| 5000 metres |
Ian Stewart (GBR) |
13:44.8 | Rashid Sharafetdinov (URS) |
13:45.8 | Alan Blinston (GBR) |
13:47.6 |
| 10,000 metres |
Jürgen Haase (GDR) |
28:41.6 | Michael Tagg (GBR) |
28:43.2 | Nikolay Sviridov (URS) |
28:45.8 |
| 110 metres hurdles |
 Eddy Ottoz (ITA) |
13.5 | David Hemery (GBR) |
13.7 | Alan Pascoe (GBR) |
13.9 |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Vyacheslav Skomorokhov (URS) |
49.7 | John Sherwood (GBR) |
50.1 | Andrew Todd (GBR) |
50.3 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
 Mikhail Zhelev (BUL) |
8:25.0 | Aleksandr Morozov (URS) |
8:25.6 | Vladimir Dudin (URS) |
8:26.6 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
France Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François St.-Gilles |
38.8 | 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 |
France Gilles Bertould Christian Nicolau Jacques Carette Jean-Claude Nallet |
3:02.3 | Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko Boris Savchuk Yuriy Zorin Aleksandr Bratchikov |
3:03.0 |  West GermanyHorst-Rüdiger Schlöske Ingo Röper Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus |
3:03.1 |
| Marathon |
Ron Hill (GBR) |
2:16:47.8 |  Gaston Roelants (BEL) |
2:17:22.2 | Jim Alder (GBR) |
2:19:05.8 |
| 20 kilometres walk |
Paul Nihill (GBR) |
1:30:48.0 |  Leonida Karaiosifoglu (ROU) |
1:31:06.4 | Nikolay Smaga (URS) |
1:31:20.2 |
| 50 kilometres walk |
Christoph Hohne (GDR) |
4:12:32.8 | Peter Selzer (GDR) |
4:16:09.6 | Veniamin Soldatenko (URS) |
4:23:04.8 |
| High jump |
Valentin Gavrilov (URS) |
2.17 m |  Reijo Vähälä (FIN) |
2.17 m | Erminio Azzaro (ITA) |
2.17 m |
| Pole vault |
Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) |
5.30 m |  Kjell Isaksson (SWE) |
5.20 m | Aldo Righi (ITA) |
5.10 m |
| Long jump |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) |
8.17 m | Lynn Davies (GBR) |
8.07 m | Tõnu Lepik (URS) |
8.04 m |
| Triple jump |
Viktor Saneyev (URS) |
17.34 m |  Zoltán Cziffra (HUN) |
16.85 m | Klaus Neumann (GDR) |
16.68 m |
| Shot put |
Dieter Hoffmann (GDR) |
20.12 m | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR) |
20.05 m | Hans-Peter Gies (GDR) |
19.78 m |
| Discus throw |
Hartmut Losch (GDR) |
61.82 m | Ricky Bruch (SWE) |
61.08 m | Lothar Milde (GDR) |
59.34 m |
| Javelin throw |
Jānis Lūsis (URS) |
91.52 m | Pauli Nevala (FIN) |
89.58 m | Janusz Sidło (POL) |
82.90 m |
| Hammer throw |
Anatoliy Bondarchuk (URS) |
74.68 m | Romuald Klim (URS) |
72.74 m | Reinhard Theimer (GDR) |
72.02 m |
| Decathlon |
Joachim Kirst (GDR) |
8041 pts | Herbert Wessel (GDR) |
7828 pts | Viktor Chelnikov (URS) |
7801 pts |
Women
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | East Germany |
11 | 7 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | Soviet Union |
9 | 7 | 7 | 23 |
| 3 | Great Britain |
6 | 4 | 7 | 17 |
| 4 | France |
3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia |
2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Poland |
2 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 7 |  Hungary |
1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 |  Switzerland |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Italy |
1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 |  Austria |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Bulgaria |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12= | Finland |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12= | Sweden |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12= | Romania |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12= |  Netherlands |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | West Germany |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 17= | Ireland |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17= | Belgium |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17= |  Denmark |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20= |  Yugoslavia |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20= |  Norway |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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]
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