The 1969 European Athletics Championships were the ninth European Athletics Championships which were held from 16–21 September 1969 at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece. New at these championships were the women's 1500 metres and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event. Moreover, women's 80 metres hurdles was replaced by women's 100 metres hurdles.

Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.

Former East German runner Jürgen May, who had defected, was not allowed to compete for his new country, West Germany, due to IAAF rules requiring him to live there for at least three years; he had competed for East Germany in the 1966 championships.

Medal summary

Complete results were published.

Men

{|

|-

|

|||10.49

|||10.50

|||10.56

|-

|

|||20.70

|||20.94

|||20.96

|-

|

|||45.75

|||45.81

|||45.83

|-

|

|||1:45.98 =

|||1:46.26

|||1:46.83

|-

|

|||3:39.45

|||3:39.51

|||3:39.87

|-

|

|||13:44.8

|||13:45.8

|||13:47.6

|-

|

|||28:41.6

|||28:43.2

|||28:45.8

|-

|

|||13.59

|||13.74

|||13.94

|-

|

|||49.70

|||50.10

|||50.38

|-

|

|||8:25.02

|||8:25.57

|||8:26.60

|-

|

|<br>Alain Sarteur<br>Patrick Bourbeillon<br>Gérard Fenouil<br>François St.-Gilles||38.89

|<br>Aleksandr Lebedev<br>Vladislav Sapeya<br>Nikolay Ivanov<br>Valeriy Borzov||39.40

|<br>Ladislav Kříž<br>Dionys Szogedi<br>Jiří Kynos<br>Luděk Bohman||39.52

|-

|

|<br>Gilles Bertould<br>Christian Nicolau<br>Jacques Carette<br>Jean-Claude Nallet||3:02.30

|<br>Yevgeniy Borisenko<br>Boris Savchuk<br>Yuriy Zorin<br>Aleksandr Bratchikov||3:03.05

|<br>Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske<br>Ingo Röper<br>Gerhard Hennige<br>Martin Jellinghaus||3:03.13

|-

|

|||2:16:47

|||2:17:22

|||2:19:05

|-

|

|||1:30:48

|||1:31:06

|||1:31:20

|-

|

|||4:12:32

|||4:16:09

|||4:23:04

|-

|

|||2.17 m

|||2.17 m

|||2.17 m

|-

|

|||5.30 m

|||5.20 m

|||5.10 m

|-

|

|||8.17 m w

|||8.07 m w

|||8.04 m w

|-

|

|||17.34 m

|||16.85 m

|||16.68 m

|-

|

|||20.12 m

|||20.05 m

|||19.78 m

|-

|

|||61.82 m

|||61.08 m

|||59.34 m

|-

|

|||74.68 m (WR)

|||72.74 m

|||72.02 m

|-

|

|||91.52 m

|||89.58 m

|||82.90 m

|-

|

|||8041 pts

|||7828 pts

|||7801 pts

|}

  • Max Klauß from East Germany jumped 8.00 in the final, which was a new championship record.
  • Probably wind assisted. As of statistic handbooks Viktor Saneyev's mark wasn't ratified as a new championship record.

Women

{|

|-

|

|||11.66

|||11.74

|||11.81

|-

|

|||23.30

|||23.33

|||23.34

|-

|

|||51.72 (WR)

|||51.74

|||53.00

|-

|

|||2:01.4

|||2:02.6

|||2:02.6

|-

|

|||4:10.77 (WR)

|||4:11.90

|||4:12.00

|-

|

|||13.29

|||13.68

|||13.77

|-

|

|<br>Regina Hofer<br>Renate Meissner<br>Bärbel Podeswa<br>Petra Vogt||43.63

|<br>Bärbel Hohnle<br>Jutta Stock<br>Rita Jahn-Wilden<br>Ingrid Becker||44.09

|<br>Anita Neil<br>Denise Ramsden<br>Sheila Cooper<br>Val Peat||44.39

|-

|

|<br>Rosemary Stirling<br>Pat Lowe<br>Janet Simpson<br>Lillian Board||3:30.82 (WR)

|<br>Bernadette Martin<br>Nicole Duclos<br>Eliane Jacq<br>Colette Besson||3:30.85

|<br>Christa Czekay<br>Antje Gleichfeld<br>Inge Eckhoff<br>Christel Frese||3:32.70

|-

|

|||1.83 m =

|||1.83 m

|||1.83 m

|-

|

|||6.49 m

|||6.45 m

|||6.44 m

|-

|

|||20.43 m (WR)

|||19.58 m

|||19.56 m

|-

|

|||59.28 m

|||59.24 m

|||58.66 m

|-

|

|||59.76 m

|||58.80 m

|||56.56 m

|-

|

|||5030 pts

|||4793 pts

|||4773 pts

|}

Medal table

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 675 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event, one athlete more than the official number of 674 as published.

  • (9)
  • (18)
  • (19)
  • (27)
  • (8)
  • (60)
  • (24)
  • (57)
  • (1)
  • (24)
  • (32)
  • (3)
  • (4)
  • (36)
  • (1)
  • (4)
  • (1)
  • (9)
  • (18)
  • (51)
  • (4)
  • (17)
  • (79)
  • (6)
  • (29)
  • (19)
  • (10)
  • (71)
  • (16)
  • (18)

References

;Results

  • European Athletics official website