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
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The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 18 and 20 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Mikhail Zhelev  Bulgaria
Silver	Aleksandr Morozov  Soviet Union
Bronze	Vladimiras Dudinas  Soviet Union

20 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mikhail Zhelev	Bulgaria	8:25.02	CR NR
	Aleksandr Morozov	Soviet Union	8:25.57
	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8:26.6
4	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8:27.2
5	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:33.4
6	Arne Risa	Norway	8:34.4
7	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8:34.6
8	Gerry Stevens	Great Britain	8:36.6
9	Jean-Pierre Ouine	France	8:39.6
10	Wolfgang Luers	Poland	8:46.6
11	Bengt Persson	Sweden	8:56.1
12	Hans Menet	Switzerland	9:02.6

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8:43.8	Q
2	Arne Risa	Norway	8:44.0	Q
3	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8:44.4	Q
4	Jean-Pierre Ouine	France	8:44.5	Q
5	Wolfgang Luers	Poland	8:45.6	Q
6	Hans Menet	Switzerland	8:47.2	Q
7	John Jackson	Great Britain	8:48.4
8	Pavel Sysoyev	Soviet Union	8:54.8
9	Eddy Van Butsele	Belgium	9:04.6
10	Stanisław Śmitkowski	Poland	9:07.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Morozov	Soviet Union	8:44.4	Q
2	Gerry Stevens	Great Britain	8:45.4	Q
3	Mikhail Zhelev	Bulgaria	8:45.6	Q
4	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8:48.0	Q
5	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:50.0	Q
6	Bengt Persson	Sweden	8:51.0	Q
7	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8:58.2
8	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	9:01.2
9	Umberto Risi	Italy	9:03.2

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.