1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw

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 discus throw at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 16 and 18 September 1969.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Hartmut Losch East Germany
Silver	Ricky Bruch Sweden
Bronze	Lothar Milde East Germany

Results

Final

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Hartmut Losch	East Germany	61.82	CR
02 !	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	61.08
03 !	Lothar Milde	East Germany	59.34
4	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	59.30
5	Vladimir Lyakhov	Soviet Union	59.10
6	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	58.18
7	Günter Schaumburg	East Germany	57.88
8	Kaj Andersen	Denmark	56.26
9	Jaroslav Vidrna	Czechoslovakia	55.70
10	Géza Fejér	Hungary	55.64
11	Edy Hubacher	Switzerland	54.12
12	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	53.64
13	Jouko Montonen	Finland	53.46

Qualification

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Hartmut Losch	East Germany	59.86	CR Q
2	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	58.42	Q
3	Lothar Milde	East Germany	58.40	Q
4	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	58.14	Q
5	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	58.00	Q
6	Vladimir Lyakhov	Soviet Union	57.66	Q
7	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	56.70	Q
8	Kaj Andersen	Denmark	55.46	Q
9	Günter Schaumburg	East Germany	55.36	Q
10	Jaroslav Vidrna	Czechoslovakia	54.54	Q
11	Edy Hubacher	Switzerland	53.88	Q
12	Géza Fejér	Hungary	53.44	Q
13	Jouko Montonen	Finland	53.38	Q
14	William Tancred	United Kingdom	53.30
15	Zbigniew Gryżboń	Poland	50.70
16	Erlendur Valdimarsson	Iceland	49.84
17	János Murányi	Hungary	49.76
18	Peter Tancred	United Kingdom	48.24
19	Pentti Kahma	Finland	NM
20	Nikolaos Tsiaras	Greece	NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

Finland (2)
Greece (1)
Hungary (3)

References

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

Discus throw at the European Athletics Championships

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