1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

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 marathon at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, on 21 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Ron Hill  Great Britain
Silver	Gaston Roelants  Belgium
Bronze	Jim Alder  Great Britain

21 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ron Hill	Great Britain	2:16:47.8
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	2:17:22.2
	Jim Alder	Great Britain	2:19:05.8
4	Jürgen Busch	East Germany	2:19:34.4
5	İsmail Akçay	Turkey	2:22:16.8
6	Denes Simon	Hungary	2:22:58.8
7	Michał Wójcik	Poland	2:23:36.6
8	Yuriy Volkov	Soviet Union	2:24:09.6
9	Maurice Peiren	Belgium	2:24:10.6
10	Anatoliy Skripnik	Soviet Union	2:25:14.8
11	Hüseyin Aktaş	Turkey	2:27:51.0
12	Zdzisław Bogusz	Poland	2:28:37.0
13	Michael Molloy	Ireland	2:28:38.0
14	Carlos Pérez	Spain	2:29:28.6
15	Yury Velikorodnykh	Soviet Union	2:31:46.8
16	Gyula Tóth	Hungary	2:32:24.6
17	Nedo Farčić	Yugoslavia	2:35:57.0
18	Aad Steylen	Netherlands	2:37:35.0
19	Hamza Canavar	Turkey	2:39:45.0
20	André Lacour	France	2:40:20.8
21	Stanislav Petr	Czechoslovakia	2:40:44.0
22	Gilbert Gauthier	France	2:45:31.0
23	Jean-Marie Wagnon	France	2:47:19.0
24	Nikolaos Avlakiotis	Greece	2:47:53.8
25	Armando Aldegalega	Portugal	NT
26	Georgios Fakiolas	Greece	NT
27	Jimmy Parody	Gibraltar	NT
	Bjarne Sletten	Norway	DNF
	Bill Adcocks	Great Britain	DNF
	Dimitrios Vouros	Greece	DNF
	Pentti Rummakko	Finland	DNF
	Václav Mládek	Czechoslovakia	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.