1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

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 800 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 17, 18, and 19 September 1969.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Dieter Fromm  East Germany
Silver	Jozef Plachý  Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Manfred Matuschewski  East Germany

Results

Final

19 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:45.98	CR
02 !	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:46.26
03 !	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:46.83
4	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:47.1
5	Hansruedi Mumenthaler	Switzerland	1:47.2
6	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:47.5
7	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1:49.1
8	Erhard Schulze	East Germany	1:55.4

Semi-finals

18 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:49.2	Q
2	Erhard Schulze	East Germany	1:49.4	Q
3	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:49.4	Q
4	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1:49.5	Q
5	Andy Carter	United Kingdom	1:49.6
6	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1:49.6
7	Stanisław Waśkiewicz	Poland	1:49.6
8	Tomás Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	1:50.0

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:48.9	Q
2	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:49.0	Q
3	Hansruedi Mumenthaler	Switzerland	1:49.1	Q
4	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:49.2	Q
5	Dave Cropper	United Kingdom	1:50.0
6	Bob Adams	United Kingdom	1:50.9
7	Sergey Kryuchok	Soviet Union	1:53.3
8	Kazimierz Wardak	Poland	1:57.1

Heats

17 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Erhard Schulze	East Germany	1:48.7	Q
2	Bob Adams	United Kingdom	1:49.2	Q
3	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:49.8	Q
4	Stanisław Waśkiewicz	Poland	1:50.4	Q
5	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1:50.5	Q
6	Zlatko Valchev	Bulgaria	1:50.6

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:50.5	Q
2	Dave Cropper	United Kingdom	1:50.8	Q
3	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:50.9	Q
4	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:51.0	Q
5	Tomás Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	1:51.0	Q
6	Knut Brustad	Norway	1:51.1
7	Rudi Simon	Belgium	1:51.1
8	Ali Erte	Turkey	1:53.5

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:50.1	Q
2	Hansruedi Mumenthaler	Switzerland	1:50.1	Q
3	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1:50.2	Q
4	Andy Carter	United Kingdom	1:50.3	Q
5	Kazimierz Wardak	Poland	1:50.3	Q
6	Sergey Kryuchok	Soviet Union	1:50.3	Q
7	Michel Medinger	Luxembourg	1:50.8

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References