1969 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

Women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1969 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium
Location	Athens, Greece
Dates	19 September 1969 (round 1 and final)
Competitors	45 from 11 nations
Winning time	3:30.82 min WR
Medalists
Rosemary Stirling Patricia Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board    Great Britain   Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Eliane Jacq Colette Besson    France   Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese    West Germany

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
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 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held over two rounds at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens, Greece, on 19 September 1969.^[1]

19 September

Result of round 1

Rank	Heat	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	2	West Germany	Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese	3:33.9	Q, WR
2	2	Great Britain	Rosemary Stirling Patricia Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board	3:34.3	Q, NR
3	2	Soviet Union	Taysiya Kovalevskaya Olga Klein Anna Dundare Raisa Nikanorova	3:34.5	Q, NR
4	2	Hungary	Antónia Munkácsi Magdolna Kulcsár Rozalia Séfer Györgyi Balogh	3:35.8	Q, NR
5	2	Denmark	Birgitte Jennes Kirsten Hoiler Pia Lund Annelise Damm Olesen	3:36.2	NR
6	1	France	Bernadette Martin Eliane Jacq Nicole Duclos Colette Besson	3:37.9	Q
7	2	Poland	Krystyna Hryniewicka Danuta Piecyk Anna Bełtowska Elżbieta Skowrońska	3:38.1	NR
8	1	East Germany	Waltraud Birnbaum Roswitha Becker Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middecke	3:38.8	Q
9	1	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Salin Pirjo Häggman Eeva Haimi	3:40.7	Q, NR
10	1	Sweden	Elisabeth Randerz Birgitta Larsson Ulla Ekblom Karin Lundgren	3:41.1	Q
11	1	Italy	Maria Bruni Armida Guzzetti Silvana Zangirolami Donata Govoni	3:42.3

The official times were rounded to one-tenth of a second, with both first and second place credited with a new world record of 3:30.8.

19 September

Results of the final

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	Rosemary Stirling Patricia Lowe Janet Simpson Lillian Board	3:30.82	WR
	France	Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Eliane Jacq Colette Besson	3:30.85	WR
	West Germany	Christa Czekay Antje Gleichfeld Inge Eckhoff Christel Frese	3:32.7	NR
4	Soviet Union	Taysiya Kovalevskaya Olga Klein Anna Dundare Raisa Nikanorova	3:33.7	NR
5	East Germany	Waltraud Birnbaum Roswitha Becker Ingelore Lohse Hannelore Middecke	3:35.2	NR
6	Sweden	Elisabeth Östberg Elisabeth Randerz Ulla Ekblom Karin Lundgren	3:35.4	NR
7	Hungary	Antónia Munkácsi Magdolna Kulcsár Rozália Séfer Györgyi Balogh	3:36.6	NR
8	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Salin Pirjo Häggman Eeva Haimi	3:40.6	NR