The men's 4 x 100 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
editResults
editFinal
edit20 September
Heats
edit19 September
Heat 1
edit| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  France |
Alain Sarteur Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil François Saint-Gilles |
39.3 | CR Q |
| 2 |  Czechoslovakia |
Ladislav Kříž Dionýz Szögedi Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman |
39.6 | Q |
| 3 |  Poland |
Stanisław Wagner Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz Tadeusz Cuch |
39.6 | Q |
| 4 |  Italy |
Giorgio Rietti Ennio Preatoni Angelo Squazzero Francesco Zandano |
39.8 | Q |
| 5 |  Greece |
Vasilios Papageorgopoulos Georgios Mikelidis Antonios Mitrakis Nikolaos Argiris |
40.5 |
Heat 2
edit| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  East Germany |
Günther Gollos Peter Haase Hermann Burde Hans-Jürgen Bombach |
39.6 | Q |
| 2 |  Yugoslavia |
Miro Kocuvan Gabor Lendjel Ivica Karasi Predrag Križan |
40.0 | Q |
| 3 |  West Germany |
Manfred Knickenberg Günther Nickel Gerhard Wucherer Volker Stöckel |
40.0 | Q |
| 4 |  Soviet Union |
Aleksandr Lebedev Vladislav Sapeya Nikolay Ivanov Valeriy Borzov |
40.1 | Q |
| 5 |  Great Britain |
Ian Green Ron Jones Dave Dear Don Halliday |
40.2 |
Participation
editAccording to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.
Czechoslovakia (4)
East Germany (4)
France (4)
Greece (4)
Italy (4)
Poland (4)
Soviet Union (4)
Great Britain (4)
West Germany (4)
Yugoslavia (4)
References
edit- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 405–412, retrieved 13 August 2014