1970 European Cup (athletics)

1970 European Cup
Host city	Stockholm, Sweden (men) Budapest, Hungary (women)
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	33
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The 1970 European Cup was the 3rd edition of the European Cup of athletics. ^[1]

The Finals were held in Stockholm, Sweden (men) and Budapest, Hungary (women). It was the last time that men's and women's competition was held at a different time and place.

Final

Main article: 1970 European Cup Final (athletics)

Held on 29 and 30 August in Stockholm (men) and on 22 August (women) in Budapest. ^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 102 2   Soviet Union 92,5 3   West Germany 91 4 Poland 82 5   France 77,5 6   Sweden 68 7   Italy 47

Women Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 70 2   West Germany 63 3   Soviet Union 43 4 Poland 35 5   Great Britain 34 6   Hungary 32

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.0 m/s)	Zenon Nowosz   Poland	10.4	Siegfried Schenke   East Germany	10.5	Gerhard Wucherer   West Germany	10.5
200 m (Wind: +5.8 m/s)	Siegfried Schenke   East Germany	20.7w	Jochen Eigenherr   West Germany	20.9w	Zenon Nowosz   Poland	21.0w
400 m	Jan Werner   Poland	45.9	Jean-Claude Nallet   France	46.3	Boris Savchuk   Soviet Union	46.7
800 m	Yevgeniy Arzhanov   Soviet Union	1:47.8	Franz-Josef Kemper   West Germany	1:48.6	Andrzej Kupczyk   Poland	1:48.7
1500 m	Franco Arese   Italy	3:42.3	Henryk Szordykowski   Poland	3:42.5	Jean Wadoux   France	3:42.6
5000 m	Harald Norpoth   West Germany	14:25.4	Gerd Eisenberg   East Germany	14:25.6	Rashid Sharafetdinov   Soviet Union	14:25.8
10,000 m	Jürgen Haase   East Germany	28:26.8 CR	Nikolay Sviridov   Soviet Union	28:29.2	Manfred Letzerich   West Germany	28:40.0
3000 m steeplechase	Vladimir Dudin   Soviet Union	8:31.6 CR	Ulrich Holbeck   East Germany	8:36.0	Kazimierz Maranda   Poland	8:38.0
110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Guy Drut   France	13.7 CR	Bo Forssander   Sweden	14.0	Günther Nickel   West Germany	14.0
400 m hurdles	Jean-Claude Nallet   France	50.1 CR	Werner Reibert   West Germany	51.0	Dmitriy Stukalov   Soviet Union	51.2
4 × 100 m	East Germany Hans-Jürgen Bombach Joachim Walther Hermann Burde Harald Eggers	39.4	Poland Stanisław Wagner Tadeusz Cuch Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz	39.5	West Germany Günther Nickel Jochen Eigenherr Gerhard Wucherer Josef Schwarz	39.6
4 × 400 m	Poland Jan Werner Edmund Borowski Jan Balachowski Andrzej Badeński	3:05.1	Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko Yuriy Zorin Boris Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov	3:06.3	East Germany Rainer Friedrich Andreas Scheibe Michael Zerbes Wolfgang Müller	3:07.1
High jump	Kenneth Lundmark   Sweden	2.15 CR	Valentin Gavrilov   Soviet Union Gérard Lamy   France	2.13
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig   East Germany	5.35 CR	Renato Dionisi   Italy	5.20	François Tracanelli   France	5.15
Long jump	Jack Pani   France	8.09	Klaus Beer   East Germany	8.07	Josef Schwarz   West Germany	7.99
Triple jump	Jörg Drehmel   East Germany	17.13 CR	Viktor Sanyeyev   Soviet Union	17.01	Józef Schmidt   Poland	16.65
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick   East Germany	20.55	Heinfried Birlenbach   West Germany	19.54	Pierre Colnard   France	19.44
Discus throw	Ricky Bruch   Sweden	64.86 CR	Hein-Direck Neu   West Germany	61.40	Vladimir Lyakhov   Soviet Union	59.26
Hammer throw	Anatoliy Bondarchuk   Soviet Union	70.46	Uwe Beyer   West Germany	69.46	Reinhard Theimer   East Germany	69.32
Javelin throw	Władysław Nikiciuk   Poland	82.46	Jānis Lūsis   Soviet Union	81.74	Klaus Wolfermann   West Germany	80.90
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.3 m/s)	Ingrid Mickler   West Germany	11.3	Renate Meissner   East Germany	11.4	Györgyi Balogh   Hungary	11.6
200 m (Wind: +0.2 m/s)	Renate Meissner   East Germany	23.1	Ingrid Mickler   West Germany	23.3	Györgyi Balogh   Hungary	23.3
400 m	Helga Fischer   East Germany	53.2 CR	Christel Frese   West Germany	54.1	Vera Popkova   Soviet Union	54.0
800 m	Hildegard Janze   West Germany	2:04.9	Sheila Carey   Great Britain	2:05.3	Barbara Wieck   East Germany	2:05.4
1500 m	Ellen Tittel   West Germany	4:16.3	Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany	4:16.5	Lyudmila Bragina   Soviet Union	4:17.2
100 m hurdles (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Karin Balzer   East Germany	13.1	Teresa Sukniewicz   Poland	13.2	Margit Bach   West Germany	13.7
4 × 100 m	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Annelie Wilden Rita Jahn Ingrid Mickler	43.9 CR	East Germany Renate Meissner Christina Heinich Bärbel Schrickel Marion Wagner	44.5	Hungary Erzsébet Bartos Judit Szabó Györgyi Balogh Katalin Papp	44.8
4 × 400 m	East Germany Helga Fischer Renate Marder Brigitte Rohde Monika Zehrt	3:37.0	West Germany Christel Frese Christa Czekay Inge Eckhoff Heidi Gerhard	3:37.2	Great Britain Rosemary Stirling Maureen Tranter Val Peat Helen Golden	3:37.8
High jump	Rita Schmidt   East Germany	1.84 CR	Antonina Lazareva   Soviet Union	1.84 CR	Karen Mack   West Germany	1.76
Long jump	Heide Rosendahl   West Germany	6.80 NR , CR	Ann Wilson   Great Britain	6.57w	Margrit Herbst   East Germany	6.44
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova   Soviet Union	19.42	Hannelore Friedel   East Germany	18.01	Ludwika Chewińska   Poland	17.01
Discus throw	Karin Illgen   East Germany	61.60 CR	Liesel Westermann   West Germany	61.44	Tamara Danilova   Soviet Union	57.84
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	60.60 CR	Daniela Jaworska   Poland	55.90	Marite Saulite   Soviet Union	54.52
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Semifinals

Men

All semifinals were held on 1 and 2 August. ^[2] First two teams advanced to the final. Sweden advanced as the host of the final.

Semifinal 1 Held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1   West Germany 97 2   Italy 82.5 3   Czechoslovakia 76 4   Hungary 65.5 5   Yugoslavia 58 6 Bulgaria 40

Semifinal 2 Held in Helsinki, Finland Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 99 2 Poland 92 3   Finland 81 4   Sweden 65 5   Norway 48 6   Belgium 35

Semifinal 3 Held in Zürich, Switzerland Pos. Nation Points 1   France 97 1   Soviet Union 97 3   Great Britain 68 4 Spain 60 5   Switzerland 55 6 Romania 42

Women

All semifinals were held on 22 August. ^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Held in East Berlin, East Germany Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 84 2   Great Britain 73 3   Netherlands 58 4   France 55 5   Denmark 34 6   Finland 32 7   Norway 28

Semifinal 2 Held in Herford, West Germany Pos. Nation Points 1   West Germany 74 2   Hungary 52 3 Bulgaria 48 4   Sweden 46 5   Yugoslavia 32 6   Belgium 21

Semifinal 3 Held in Bucharest, Romania Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 79 2 Poland 71 3 Romania 66 4   Italy 47 5   Czechoslovakia 38 6   Switzerland 35 7   Austria 28

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 20–21 June. First two teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held in Barcelona Pos. Nation Points 1 Spain 64 2 Romania 50 3   Netherlands 44 4 Greece 41

Preliminary 2 Held in Vienna Pos. Nation Points 1   Yugoslavia 68 2 Bulgaria 59 3   Austria 47 4   Luxembourg 23

Preliminary 3 Held in Reykjavík Pos. Nation Points 1   Finland 81 2   Belgium 69 3   Denmark 60 4   Ireland 53 5   Iceland 37

References

1. "The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event". european-athletics.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
2. 2010 Italian almanach Archived 2021-08-28 at the Wayback Machine (p466)

External links

• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics