1973 European Cup (athletics)

1973 European Cup
Host city	Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	33
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The 1973 European Cup was the 4th edition of the European Cup of athletics. ^[1]

The Finals were held at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the first time on a synthetic track.

Final

Main article: 1973 European Cup Final (athletics)

Held in Edinburgh on 8–9 September (men) and 7 September (women). ^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 82.5 2   East Germany 78.5 3   West Germany 76 4   Great Britain 70.5 5   Finland 65 6   France 45

Women Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 72 2   Soviet Union 52 3 Bulgaria 50 4   West Germany 36   Great Britain 36 6 Romania 27

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.5 m/s)	Siegfried Schenke   East Germany	10.26 CR	Aleksandr Kornelyuk   Soviet Union	10.34	Jobst Hirscht   West Germany	10.47
200 m (Wind: -3.3 m/s)	Chris Monk   Great Britain	21.00	Hans-Jürgen Bombach   East Germany	21.05	Ossi Karttunen   Finland	21.24
400 m	Karl Honz   West Germany	45.20	David Jenkins   Great Britain	46.00	Ossi Karttunen   Finland	46.26
800 m	Andy Carter   Great Britain	1:46.44 CR	Yevgeniy Arzhanov   Soviet Union	1:46.70	Dieter Fromm   East Germany	1:46.71
1500 m	Frank Clement   Great Britain	3:40.79	Paul-Heinz Wellmann   West Germany	3:41.85	Klaus-Peter Justus   East Germany	3:42.61
5000 m	Brendan Foster   Great Britain	13:54.65	Manfred Kuschmann   East Germany	13:55.31	Harald Norpoth   West Germany	13:57.66
10,000 m	Nikolay Sviridov   Soviet Union	28:44.08	Detlef Uhlemann   West Germany	28:44.22	Karl-Heinz Leiteritz   East Germany	28:44.36
3000 m steeplechase	Tapio Kantanen   Finland	8:28.45	Willi Maier   West Germany	8:29.76	Leonid Savelyev   Soviet Union	8:30.93
110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Guy Drut   France	13.70	Anatoliy Moshiashvili   Soviet Union	13.76	Thomas Munkelt   East Germany	13.77
400 m hurdles	Alan Pascoe   Great Britain	50.07 CR	Dmitriy Stukalov   Soviet Union	50.61	Jürgen Laser   East Germany	51.09
4 × 100 m	East Germany Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	39.45	West Germany Jobst Hirscht Klaus Ehl Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	39.49	Great Britain Brian Green Chris Monk Ian Matthews Les Piggot	39.86
4 × 400 m	West Germany Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Bernd Herrmann Karl Honz	3:04.25 CR	Soviet Union Valeriy Yurchenko Leonid Korolyev Valeriy Yudin Semyon Kocher	3:05.11	Great Britain John Wilson Alan Pascoe Joe Chivers David Jenkins	3:06.27
High jump	Valentin Gavrilov   Soviet Union	2.15	Asko Pesonen   Finland	2.13	Paul Poaniewa   France	2.09
Pole vault	Yuriy Isakov   Soviet Union Antti Kalliomäki   Finland	5.30			Mike Bull   Great Britain Reinhard Kuretzky   West Germany	5.20
Long jump	Valeriy Podluzhniy   Soviet Union	8.20w	Hans Baumgartner   West Germany	8.12	Max Klauss   East Germany	8.03
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev   Soviet Union	16.90w	Jörg Drehmel   East Germany	16.89	Esa Rinne   Finland	16.18
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick   East Germany	20.95	Reijo Ståhlberg   Finland	20.27	Geoff Capes   East Germany	19.80
Discus throw	Pentti Kahma   Finland	63.10	Siegfried Pachale   East Germany	60.48	Bill Tancred   Great Britain	59.06
Hammer throw	Anatoliy Bondarchuk   Soviet Union	74.08	Reinhard Theimer   East Germany	72.06	Jacques Accambray   West Germany	71.90
Javelin throw	Klaus Wolfermann   West Germany	90.68	Jānis Lūsis   Soviet Union	88.48	Hannu Siitonen   Finland	84.08
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: +1.3 m/s)	Renate Stecher   East Germany	11.25	Annegret Richter   West Germany	11.32	Marina Sidorova   Soviet Union	11.40
200 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Renate Stecher   East Germany	22.81	Marina Sidorova   Soviet Union	22.93	Helen Golden   Great Britain	23.14
400 m	Monika Zehrt   East Germany	51.75 CR	Lilyana Tomova   Bulgaria	52.33	Nadezhda Kolesnikova   Soviet Union	52.35
800 m	Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany	1:58.94 CR	Svetla Zlateva   Bulgaria	1:59.05	Nijolé Sabaité   Soviet Union	2:02.17
1500 m	Tonka Petrova   Bulgaria	4:09.02 CR	Karin Krebs   East Germany	4:09.37	Lyudmila Bragina   Soviet Union	4:10.11
100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Annelie Ehrhardt   East Germany	12.95 CR	Judy Vernon   Great Britain	13.34	Natalya Lebedeva   Soviet Union	13.62
4 × 100 m	East Germany Petra Kandarr Renate Stecher Christina Heinich Doris Selmigkeit	42.95 CR	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Annegret Kroniger	43.68	Great Britain Elizabeth Sutherland Helen Golden Judy Vernon Andrea Lynch	44.78
4 × 400 m	East Germany Waltraud Dietsch Renate Siebach Monika Zehrt Rita Kühne	3:28.66 CR	Soviet Union Nina Zyuskova Ingrida Barkane Natalya Kulichkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova	3:30.57	Bulgaria Zdravka Trifonova Lilyana Tomova Stefka Yordanova Svetla Zlateva	3:31.89
High jump	Yordanka Blagoeva   Bulgaria	1.84	Rita Kirst   East Germany	1.82	Galina Filatova   Soviet Union Virginia Ioan   Romania Barbara Lawton   Great Britain	1.80
Long jump	Angela Schmalfeld   East Germany	6.63	Viorica Viscopoleanu   Romania	6.39	Ruth Martin-Jones   Great Britain	6.30w
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova   Soviet Union	20.77 CR	Ivanka Khristova   Bulgaria	19.23	Marita Lange   East Germany	18.81
Discus throw	Faina Melnik   Soviet Union	69.48 WR , CR	Argentina Menis   Romania	64.16	Gabriele Hinzmann   East Germany	63.76
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	66.10 WR , CR	Lyutviyan Mollova   Bulgaria	60.30	Ameli Koloska   West Germany	55.46
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 4 and 5 August. ^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Held in Oslo, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 98.5 2   Great Britain 80.5 3   Italy 72.5 4   Hungary 62 5   Norway 57.5 6   Belgium 48

Semifinal 2 Held in Celje, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1   West Germany 103 2   Finland 88 3 Poland 83.5 4   Yugoslavia 63 5   Switzerland 43 6 Spain 37

Semifinal 3 Held in Nice, France Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 98.5 2   France 90 3   Czechoslovakia 76 4   Sweden 73 5 Romania 42 6 Bulgaria 40.5

Women

All semifinals were held on 4 August. ^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Held in Warsaw, Poland Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 63 2 Bulgaria 58 3 Poland 55.5 4   Finland 36.5 5   Sweden 33 6   Austria 26

Semifinal 2 Held in Bucharest, Romania Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 76 2 Romania 54 3   Hungary 53.5 4   Italy 43 5   Switzerland 24 6   Norway 22.5

Semifinal 3 Held in Sittard, Netherlands Pos. Nation Points 1   West Germany 60 2   Great Britain 57 3   France 50 4   Netherlands 39 5   Yugoslavia 38 6   Czechoslovakia 28

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First two teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held in Lisbon, Portugal Pos. Nation Points 1   Switzerland 68 2   Yugoslavia 63.5 3   Portugal 37.5 4   Ireland 29

Preliminary 2 Held in Brussels, Belgium Pos. Nation Points 1   Norway 105 2   Belgium 90 3   Netherlands 83 4   Denmark 64.5 5   Iceland 42 6   Luxembourg 32.5

Preliminary 3 Held in Athenes, Greece Pos. Nation Points 1 Romania 42 2 Bulgaria 38.5 3 Greece 36.5

Women

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held in Lyngby, Denmark Pos. Nation Points 1   Finland 66 2   Czechoslovakia 62 3   Norway 45 4   Denmark 43 5   Ireland 40 6   Iceland 16

Preliminary 2 Held in Rijeka, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1   Yugoslavia 67 2   Switzerland 57.5 3   Austria 47.5 4   Belgium 42 5 Spain 35 6   Portugal 24

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 28 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine (p466)

External links

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