1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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The men's

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 and 20 September 1969.[1]

Medalists

Gold Gilles Bertould
Christian Nicolau
Jacques Carette
Jean-Claude Nallet
 France
Silver Yevgeniy Borisenko
Boris Savchuk
Yuriy Zorin
Aleksandr Bratchikov
 Soviet Union
Bronze Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Ingo Röper
Gerhard Hennige
Martin Jellinghaus
 West Germany

Results

Final

20 September

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France Gilles Bertould
Christian Nicolau
Jacques Carette
Jean-Claude Nallet
3:02.30 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko
Boris Savchuk
Yuriy Zorin
Aleksandr Bratchikov
3:03.05
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  West Germany Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Ingo Röper
Gerhard Hennige
Martin Jellinghaus
3:03.13
4  Poland Jan Balachowski
Stanisław Grędziński
Andrzej Badeński
Jan Werner
3:03.16
5  Italy Claudio Trachelio
Sergio Bello
Giacomo Puosi
Furio Fusi
3:04.1
6  Great Britain Gwynne Griffiths
Colin Campbell
Martin Winbolt-Lewis
John Robertson
3:04.2
7  Sweden Tore Nilsson
Michael Fredriksson
Lars Gustafsson
Ulf Rönner
3:08.9
8  Belgium René Bervoets
Tony Goovaerts
Karel Brems
Willy Vandenwyngaerden
3:10.8

Heats

19 September

Heat 1

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

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

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF),
    European Athletics Association
    , pp. 405–412, retrieved 13 August 2014