1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 100 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

Gold	Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François Saint-Gilles  France
Silver	Aleksandr Lebedev Vladislav Sapeya Nikolay Ivanov Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union
Bronze	Ladislav Kříž Dionýz Szögedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman  Czechoslovakia

Results

Final

20 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François Saint-Gilles	38.89	CR
	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Lebedev Vladislav Sapeya Nikolay Ivanov Valeriy Borzov	39.40
	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Dionýz Szögedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.52	NR
4	Poland	Stanisław Wagner Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Tadeusz Cuch	39.55
5	East Germany	Günther Gollos Peter Haase Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach	39.67
6	West Germany	Manfred Knickenberg Gerhard Wucherer Volker Stöckel Günther Nickel	39.68
7	Yugoslavia	Miro Kocuvan Gabor Lenđel Ivica Karasi Predrag Križan	39.72
8	Italy	Giorgio Rietti Ennio Preatoni Angelo Squazzero Francesco Zandano	39.85

Heats

19 September

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	France	Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François Saint-Gilles	39.3	CR Q
2	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Dionýz Szögedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.6	Q
3	Poland	Stanisław Wagner Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Tadeusz Cuch	39.6	Q
4	Italy	Giorgio Rietti Ennio Preatoni Angelo Squazzero Francesco Zandano	39.8	Q
5	Greece	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos Georgios Mikelidis Antonios Mitrakis Nikolaos Argiris	40.5

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	East Germany	Günther Gollos Peter Haase Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach	39.6	Q
2	Yugoslavia	Miro Kocuvan Gabor Lendjel Ivica Karasi Predrag Križan	40.0	Q
3	West Germany	Manfred Knickenberg Günther Nickel Gerhard Wucherer Volker Stöckel	40.0	Q
4	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Lebedev Vladislav Sapeya Nikolay Ivanov Valeriy Borzov	40.1	Q
5	Great Britain	Ian Green Ron Jones Dave Dear Don Halliday	40.2

Participation

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

•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  East Germany (4)
•  France (4)
•  Greece (4)
•  Italy (4)
•  Poland (4)
•  Soviet Union (4)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  West Germany (4)
•  Yugoslavia (4)

References

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