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

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 4 x 400 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 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  France Gilles Bertould
Christian Nicolau
Jacques Carette
Jean-Claude Nallet
3:02.30 CR
2nd  Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko
Boris Savchuk
Yuriy Zorin
Aleksandr Bratchikov
3:03.05
3rd  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  United Kingdom 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  United Kingdom 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

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