1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Medalists

Gold	Philippe Clerc   Switzerland
Silver	Hermann Burde  East Germany
Bronze	Zenon Nowosz  Poland

Results

Final

20 September Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.70	CR
	Hermann Burde	East Germany	20.94
	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	20.96
4	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.07
5	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.09
6	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.14
7	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.18
8	Philippe Guillet	France	21.22

Semi-finals

19 September

Semi-final 1

Wind: -1.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.9	Q
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	20.9	Q
3	Hermann Burde	East Germany	21.0	Q
4	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.1	Q
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.1
6	Predrag Križan	Yugoslavia	21.2
7	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.3
8	László Mihályfi	Hungary	21.5

Semi-final 2

Wind: -1.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.2	Q
2	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.2	Q
3	Philippe Guillet	France	21.2	Q
4	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.4	Q
5	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	21.5
6	Dave Dear	Great Britain	21.5
7	Nikolay Ivanov	Soviet Union	21.6
	Barcelo de Carvalho	Portugal	DNS

Heats

18 September

Heat 1

Wind: -2.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.4	Q
2	Predrag Križan	Yugoslavia	21.6	Q
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	21.7	Q
4	Barcelo de Carvalho	Portugal	21.8	Q
5	Emile Jung	Luxembourg	22.2

Heat 2

Wind: -4.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.4	Q
2	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.4	Q
3	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.4	Q
4	Dave Dear	Great Britain	21.6	Q
5	Georgios Mikelidis	Greece	21.8
6	Trendafil Terziyski	Bulgaria	21.8

Heat 3

Wind: -3.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nikolay Ivanov	Soviet Union	21.6	Q
2	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	21.7	Q
3	Hermann Burde	East Germany	21.7	Q
4	László Mihályfi	Hungary	21.8	Q
5	Ole Bernt Skarstein	Norway	21.9

Heat 4

Wind: -2.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.2	Q
2	Philippe Guillet	France	21.3	Q
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.3	Q
4	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.4	Q
5	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	21.4

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.