1969 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
Women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships |
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The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 September 1969.[1]
Medalists
Gold | Rosemary Stirling Patricia Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board Great Britain |
Silver | Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Eliane Jacq Colette Besson France |
Bronze | Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese West Germany |
Results
Final
The official times were rounded to one-tenth of a second, with both first and second place credited with a new world record of 3:30.8.
19 September
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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Great Britain | Rosemary Stirling Patricia Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board | 3:30.82 | WR | |
France | Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Eliane Jacq Colette Besson | 3:30.85 | WR | |
West Germany | Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese | 3:32.7 | NR | |
4 | Soviet Union | Taysiya Kovalevskaya Olga Klein Anna Dundare Raisa Nikanorova | 3:33.7 | NR |
5 | East Germany | Waltraud Birnbaum Roswitha Becker Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middecke | 3:35.2 | NR |
6 | Sweden | Elisabeth Östberg Elisabeth Randerz Ulla Ekblom Karin Lundgren | 3:35.4 | NR |
7 | Hungary | Antónia Munkácsi Magdolna Kulcsár Rozália Séfer Györgyi Balogh | 3:36.6 | NR |
8 | Finland | Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Salin Pirjo Häggman Eeva Haimi | 3:40.6 | NR |
Heats
19 September
Heat 1
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | France | Bernadette Martin Eliane Jacq Nicole Duclos Colette Besson | 3:37.9 | Q |
2 | East Germany | Waltraud Birnbaum Roswitha Becker Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middecke | 3:38.8 | Q |
3 | Finland | Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Salin Pirjo Häggman Eeva Haimi | 3:40.7 | NR Q |
4 | Sweden | Elisabeth Randerz Birgitta Larsson Ulla Ekblom Karin Lundgren | 3:41.1 | Q |
5 | Italy | Maria Bruni Armida Guzzetti Silvana Zangirolami Donata Govoni | 3:42.3 |
Heat 2
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | West Germany | Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese | 3:33.9 | WR Q |
2 | Great Britain | Rosemary Stirling Patricia Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board | 3:34.3 | NR Q |
3 | Soviet Union | Taysiya Kovalevskaya Olga Klein Anna Dundare Raisa Nikanorova | 3:34.5 | NR Q |
4 | Hungary | Antónia Munkácsi Magdolna Kulcsár Rozalia Séfer Györgyi Balogh | 3:35.8 | NR Q |
5 | Denmark | Birgitte Jennes Kirsten Hoiler Pia Lund Annelise Damm Olesen | 3:36.2 | NR |
6 | Poland | Krystyna Hryniewicka Danuta Piecyk Anna Bełtowska Elżbieta Skowrońska | 3:38.1 | NR |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.
- Denmark (4)
- East Germany (4)
- Finland (4)
- France (4)
- Hungary (4)
- Italy (4)
- Poland (4)
- Soviet Union (4)
- Sweden (5)
- Great Britain (4)
- West Germany (4)
References
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 405–412, retrieved 13 August 2014