1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium
Location	Athens
Dates	16 September (heats) 17 September (semifinals & final)
Competitors	28 from 16 nations
Winning time	10.49
Medalists
Valeriy Borzov    Soviet Union   Alain Sarteur    France   Philippe Clerc     Switzerland
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The men's 100 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 16 and 17 September 1969. ^[1]

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

•   Austria (1)
•   Belgium (1)
•   Czechoslovakia (3)
•   East Germany (3)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (3)
•   Greece (1)
•   Malta (1)
•   Norway (1)
•   Poland (2)
•   Soviet Union (3)
•   Sweden (1)
•    Switzerland (2)
•   Turkey (1)
•   Great Britain (3)
•   Yugoslavia (1)

Results

Heats

16 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.7	Q
2	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	10.8	Q
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.8	Q
4	Ron Jones	Great Britain	10.9	Q
5	Ivica Karasi	Yugoslavia	11.0
6	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	11.0
7	Godwin Zammit	Malta	11.8
			Wind: -3.2 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hermann Burde	East Germany	10.7	Q
2	René Metz	France	10.8	Q
3	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.8	Q
4	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	10.8	Q
5	Tadeusz Cuch	Poland	10.9
6	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	11.0
7	Paul Poels	Belgium	11.0
			Wind: -3.3 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alain Sarteur	France	10.6	Q
2	Peter Haase	East Germany	10.7	Q
3	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.8	Q
4	Vladislav Sapeya	Soviet Union	10.8	Q
5	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.8
6	Orhan Aydın	Turkey	11.0
			Wind: -1.2 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.7	Q
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.7	Q
3	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.8	Q
4	Aleksandr Lebedev	Soviet Union	10.8	Q
5	Dionýz Szögedi	Czechoslovakia	10.9
6	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	10.9
7	Ole Bernt Skarstein	Norway	11.0
8	Anders Faager	Sweden	12.4
			Wind: -4.5 m/s

Semi-finals

16 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.5	Q
2	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.5	Q
3	René Metz	France	10.5	Q
4	Peter Haase	East Germany	10.6	Q
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.6
6	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.7
7	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	10.7
8	Ron Jones	Great Britain	10.8
			Wind: -2.3 m/s

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alain Sarteur	France	10.6	Q
2	Hermann Burde	East Germany	10.6	Q
3	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.6	Q
4	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.6	Q
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.6
6	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	10.7
7	Aleksandr Lebedev	Soviet Union	10.8
8	Vladislav Sapeya	Soviet Union	10.8
			Wind: -3.1 m/s

Final

17 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.49
	Alain Sarteur	France	10.50
	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.56
4	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.71
5	Hermann Burde	East Germany	10.72
6	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.77
7	Peter Haase	East Germany	10.84
	René Metz	France	DNS
			Wind: -2.7 m/s

References

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