1969 European Athletics Championships – Women'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 women's 800 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 16 and 18 September 1969.[1]

Medalists

Gold Lillian Board
 United Kingdom
Silver Annelise Damm-Olesen
 Denmark
Bronze Vera Nikolić
 Yugoslavia

Results

Final

18 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Lillian Board  United Kingdom 2:01.50 CR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Annelise Damm-Olesen  Denmark 2:02.6 NR
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Vera Nikolić  Yugoslavia 2:02.6
4 Barbara Wieck  East Germany 2:02.7
5 Ileana Silai  Romania 2:03.0
6 Patricia Lowe  United Kingdom 2:03.4
7 Anne-Marie Nenzell  Sweden 2:05.2
8 Ilja Keizer  Netherlands 2:05.2

Heats

16 September

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Ileana Silai  Romania 2:05.0 Q
2 Anne-Marie Nenzell  Sweden 2:06.0 Q
3 Gertrud Schmidt  East Germany 2:06.0
4 Zofia Kołakowska  Poland 2:07.1
5 Britt Ramstad  Norway 2:07.4
6 Neşe Karatepe  Turkey 2:18.8

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Vera Nikolić  Yugoslavia 2:04.2 Q
2 Patricia Lowe  United Kingdom 2:05.9 Q
3 Milda Kade  Soviet Union 2:06.7
4 Maryvonne Dupureur  France 2:09.6
5 María Budavári  Hungary 2:10.7

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Lillian Board  United Kingdom 2:04.2 Q
2 Annelise Damm-Olesen  Denmark 2:04.5 NR Q
3 Ilja Keizer  Netherlands 2:04.8 q
4 Barbara Wieck  East Germany 2:05.4 q

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References

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