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.
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. 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.
The Dutch decathlete Edward de Noorlander was disqualified for the use of amphetamine, the first disqualification for doping in athletics.
Medal summary Complete results were published.
Men 10.4910.5010.5620.70 20.9420.9645.75 45.8145.831:45.98 =1:46.261:46.833:39.45 3:39.513:39.8713:44.813:45.813:47.628:41.628:43.228:45.813.59 13.7413.9449.7050.1050.388:25.02 8:25.578:26.60Alain SarteurPatrick BourbeillonGérard FenouilFrançois St.-Gilles38.89 Aleksandr LebedevVladislav SapeyaNikolay IvanovValeriy Borzov39.40Ladislav KřížDionys SzogediJiří KynosLuděk Bohman39.52Gilles BertouldChristian NicolauJacques CaretteJean-Claude Nallet3:02.30 Yevgeniy BorisenkoBoris SavchukYuriy ZorinAleksandr Bratchikov3:03.05Horst-Rüdiger SchlöskeIngo RöperGerhard HennigeMartin Jellinghaus3:03.132:16:472:17:222:19:051:30:481:31:061:31:204:12:32 4:16:094:23:042.17 m2.17 m2.17 m5.30 m 5.20 m5.10 m8.17 m w8.07 m w8.04 m w17.34 m 16.85 m16.68 m20.12 m 20.05 m19.78 m61.82 m 61.08 m59.34 m74.68 m (WR) 72.74 m72.02 m91.52 m 89.58 m82.90 m8041 pts 7828 pts7801 pts Max Klauß from East Germany jumped 8.00 in the final, which was a new championship record. Probably wind assisted. As of statistic handbooks Viktor Saneyev's mark wasn't ratified as a new championship record.
Women 11.6611.7411.8123.3023.3323.3451.72 (WR) 51.7453.002:01.4 2:02.62:02.64:10.77 (WR)4:11.904:12.0013.2913.6813.77Regina HoferRenate MeissnerBärbel PodeswaPetra Vogt43.63 Bärbel HohnleJutta StockRita Jahn-WildenIngrid Becker44.09Anita NeilDenise RamsdenSheila CooperVal Peat44.39Rosemary StirlingPat LoweJanet SimpsonLillian Board3:30.82 (WR)Bernadette MartinNicole DuclosEliane JacqColette Besson3:30.85Christa CzekayAntje GleichfeldInge EckhoffChristel Frese3:32.701.83 m =1.83 m1.83 m6.49 m6.45 m6.44 m20.43 m (WR) 19.58 m19.56 m59.28 m 59.24 m58.66 m59.76 m 58.80 m56.56 m5030 pts 4793 pts4773 pts
Medal table
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.
(9) (18) (19) (27) (8) (60) (24) (57) (1) (24) (32) (3) (4) (36) (1) (4) (1) (9) (18) (51) (4) (17) (79) (6) (29) (19) (10) (71) (16) (18)
References
Results
External links European Athletics official website