1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Events at the
1969 European
Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 16 and 18 September 1969.[1]

Medalists

Gold Vyacheslav Skomorokhov
 Soviet Union
Silver John Sherwood
 United Kingdom
Bronze Andy Todd
 United Kingdom

Results

Final

18 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Vyacheslav Skomorokhov  Soviet Union 49.70
2nd John Sherwood  United Kingdom 50.10
3rd Andy Todd  United Kingdom 50.38
4 Hansjörg Wirz   Switzerland 50.8
5 François Huard  France 51.1
6 Wilhelm Weistand  Poland 51.2
7 Tadeusz Kulczycki  Poland 51.3
8 Giorgio Ballati  Italy 52.4

Heats

16 September

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Vyacheslav Skomorokhov  Soviet Union 50.9 Q
2 François Huard  France 51.6 Q
3 Andy Todd  United Kingdom 51.6 Q
4 Stavros Tziortzis  Greece 52.4
5 Zdzisław Serafin  Poland 53.5
6 Alberto Matos  Portugal 53.6

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Hansjörg Wirz   Switzerland 51.3 Q
2 John Sherwood  United Kingdom 51.4 Q
3 Tadeusz Kulczycki  Poland 51.4 Q
4 Karel Brems  Belgium 52.5
5 Zoran Majstorović  Yugoslavia 52.8

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Giorgio Ballati  Italy 51.20 Q
2 Wilhelm Weistand  Poland 51.60 Q
3 Zsoltan Ringhoffer  Hungary 51.80
4 Anatoliy Kazakov  Soviet Union 52.20
5 Khristo Gergov  Bulgaria 53.40

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References

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