1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
| Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships |
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The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 and 20 September 1969.[1]
Medalists
[edit]Results
[edit]Final
[edit]20 September
Heats
[edit]19 September
Heat 1
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  West Germany |
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Gerhard Hennige Ingo Röper Martin Jellinghaus |
3:06.0 | Q |
| 2 |  France |
Jacques Carette Christian Nicolau Gilles Bertould Jean-Claude Nallet |
3:09.9 | Q |
| 3 |  Italy |
Furio Fusi Giacomo Puosi Claudio Trachelio Sergio Bello |
3:09.9 | Q |
| 4 |  Belgium |
René Bervoets Tony Goovaerts Karel Brems Willy Vandenwyngaerden |
3:10.4 | Q |
| 5 |  Bulgaria |
Georgi Ganchev Zlatko Valchev Khristo Gergov Georgi Bozhkov |
3:10.9 | |
| 6 |  Greece |
Haris Dimitriou Stavros Tziortzis Dionyssios Hatzidakis Konstantinos Mihailidis |
3:15.4 |
Heat 2
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Great Britain |
Gwynne Griffiths John Robertson Colin Campbell Martin Winbolt-Lewis |
3:28.9 | Q |
| 2 |  Soviet Union |
Yevgeniy Borisenko Yuriy Zorin Boris Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov |
3:33.8 | Q |
| 3 |  Sweden |
Tore Nilsson Lars Gustafsson Michael Fredriksson Ulf Rönner |
3:35.1 | Q |
| 4 |  Poland |
Jan Balachowski Stanisław Grędziński Andrzej Badeński Jan Werner |
3:43.2 | Q |
Participation
[edit]According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.
Belgium (4)
Bulgaria (4)
France (4)
Greece (4)
Italy (4)
Poland (4)
Soviet Union (4)
Sweden (4)
Great Britain (4)
West Germany (4)
References
[edit]- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 405–412, retrieved 13 August 2014
