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 triple jump at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 16 and 17 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Viktor Saneyev  Soviet Union
Silver	Zoltán Cziffra  Hungary
Bronze	Klaus Neumann  East Germany

17 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	17.34
	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	16.85
	Klaus Neumann	East Germany	16.68
4	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.56
5	Nikolay Dudkin	Soviet Union	16.46
6	Jörg Drehmel	East Germany	16.23
7	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.03
8	Serge Firca	France	15.94
9	Tony Wadhams	Great Britain	15.90
10	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	15.79
11	Kristen Fløgstad	Norway	15.71
12	Georgi Stoykovski	Bulgaria	15.14

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Klaus Neumann	East Germany	16.78	CR Q
2	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.76	Q
3	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	16.66	Q
4	Nikolay Dudkin	Soviet Union	16.65	Q
5	Tony Wadhams	Great Britain	16.49	Q
6	Serge Firca	France	16.40	Q
7	Georgi Stoykovski	Bulgaria	16.39	Q
8	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	16.21	Q
9	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	16.15	Q
10	Jörg Drehmel	East Germany	16.15	Q
11	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.11	Q
12	Kristen Fløgstad	Norway	16.04	Q
13	Andrzej Lasocki	Poland	16.00
14	Birger Nyberg	Sweden	15.85
15	Evangelos Vlasis	Greece	15.78
16	Raymond Privé	France	15.52

According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.