1974 European Athletics Championships

11th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1974 European Athletics Championships
Dates	1 – 8 September
Host city	Rome, Italy
Venue	Stadio Olimpico
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	39
Participation	745 athletes from 29 nations
← 1971 Helsinki 1978 Prague →

The 11th European Athletics Championships of 1974 were held from 2 September to 8 September in Italy, at Rome's Stadio Olimpico. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Men's results

Complete results were published. ^[5]

Track

1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	10.27	Pietro Mennea   Italy	10.34	Klaus-Dieter Bieler   West Germany	10.35
200 metres details	Pietro Mennea   Italy	20.60	Manfred Ommer   West Germany	20.76	Hans-Jürgen Bombach   East Germany	20.83
400 metres details	Karl Honz   West Germany	45.04 CR	David Jenkins   Great Britain	45.67	Bernd Herrmann   West Germany	45.78
800 metres details	Luciano Sušanj   Yugoslavia	1:44.07 CR	Steve Ovett   Great Britain	1:45.76	Markku Taskinen   Finland	1:45.89
1500 metres details	Klaus-Peter Justus   East Germany	3:40.55	Thomas Hansen   Denmark	3:40.75	Thomas Wessinghage   West Germany	3:41.10
5000 metres details	Brendan Foster   Great Britain	13:17.21 CR	Manfred Kuschmann   East Germany	13:23.93	Lasse Virén   Finland	13:24.57
10,000 metres details	Manfred Kuschmann   East Germany	28:25.75	Tony Simmons   Great Britain	28:25.79	Giuseppe Cindolo   Italy	28:27.05
Marathon details	Ian Thompson   Great Britain	2:13:19	Eckhard Lesse   East Germany	2:14:57	Gaston Roelants   Belgium	2:16:30
20 kilometres walk details	Volodymyr Holubnychy   Soviet Union	1:29:30	Bernd Kannenberg   West Germany	1:29:38	Roger Mills   Great Britain	1:32:34
50 kilometres walk details	Christoph Höhne   East Germany	3:59:06 CR	Otto Barch   Soviet Union	4:02:39	Peter Selzer   East Germany	4:04:28
110 metres hurdles details	Guy Drut   France	13.40 CR	Mirosław Wodzyński   Poland	13.67	Leszek Wodzyński   Poland	13.71
400 metres hurdles details	Alan Pascoe   Great Britain	48.82 CR	Jean-Claude Nallet   France	48.94	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko   Soviet Union	49.32
3000 metres steeplechase details	Bronisław Malinowski   Poland	8:15.04 CR	Anders Gärderud   Sweden	8:15.41	Michael Karst   West Germany	8:17.91
4 × 100 metres relay details	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot   France  (FRA)	38.69 CR	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea   Italy  (ITA)	38.88	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke   East Germany  (GDR)	38.99
4 × 400 metres relay details	Glen Cohen William Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins   Great Britain  (GBR)	3:03.33	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Rolf Ziegler   West Germany  (FRG)	3:03.52	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho   Finland  (FIN)	3:03.57

Field

1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Jesper Tørring   Denmark	2.25 m CR	Kęstutis Šapka   Soviet Union	2.25 m =CR	Vladimír Malý   Czechoslovakia	2.19 m
Pole vault details	Vladimir Kishkun   Soviet Union	5.35 m =CR	Władysław Kozakiewicz   Poland	5.35 m	Yury Isakov   Soviet Union	5.30 m
Long jump details	Valeriy Podluzhniy   Soviet Union	8.12 m w	Nenad Stekić   Yugoslavia	8.05 m CR	Yevgeni Schubin   Soviet Union	7.98 m
Triple jump details	Viktor Saneyev   Soviet Union	17.23 m CR	Carol Corbu   Romania	16.68 m	Andrzej Sontag   Poland	16.61 m
Shot put details	Hartmut Briesenick   East Germany	20.50 m	Ralf Reichenbach   West Germany	20.38 m	Geoff Capes   Great Britain	20.21 m
Discus throw details	Pentti Kahma   Finland	63.62 m	Ludvík Daněk   Czechoslovakia	62.76 m	Ricky Bruch   Sweden	62.00 m
Hammer throw details	Aleksey Spiridonov   Soviet Union	74.20 m	Jochen Sachse   East Germany	74.00 m	Reinhard Theimer   East Germany	71.62 m
Javelin throw details	Hannu Siitonen   Finland	89.58 m	Wolfgang Hanisch   East Germany	85.46 m	Terje Thorslund   Norway	83.68 m
Decathlon details	Ryszard Skowronek   Poland	8207 pts CR	Yves Le Roy   France	8146 pts	Guido Kratschmer   West Germany	8132 pts

Women's results

Track

1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Irena Szewińska   Poland	11.13 CR	Renate Stecher   East Germany	11.23	Andrea Lynch   Great Britain	11.28
200 metres details	Irena Szewińska   Poland	22.51 CR	Renate Stecher   East Germany	22.68	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen   Finland	23.17
400 metres details	Riitta Salin   Finland	50.14 CR, NR (WR)	Ellen Streidt   East Germany	50.69	Rita Wilden   West Germany	50.88
	Salin's winning time was interpreted as a World record in 1977, when the IAAF required the results to be accurate to the hundredth. The previous hand-timed record of 49.9 by Irena Szewińska was no longer listed as a World record at that time.
800 metres details	Lilyana Tomova   Bulgaria	1:58.14 CR	Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany	1:58.81	Mariana Suman   Romania	1:59.84
1500 metres details	Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany	4:02.25 CR	Lilyana Tomova   Bulgaria	4:04.97	Grete Andersen   Norway	4:05.21
3000 metres details	Nina Holmén   Finland	8:55.10	Lyudmila Bragina   Soviet Union	8:56.09	Joyce Smith   Great Britain	8:57.39
100 metres hurdles details	Annelie Ehrhardt   East Germany	12.66 CR	Annerose Fiedler   East Germany	12.89	Teresa Nowak   Poland	12.91
4 × 100 metres relay details	Doris Maletzki Renate Stecher Christina Heinich Bärbel Eckert   East Germany  (GDR)	42.51 CR, WR	Elfgard Schittenhelm Annegret Kroniger Annegret Richter Inge Helten   West Germany  (FRG)	42.75	Ewa Długołęcka Danuta Jedrejek Barbara Bakulin Irena Szewińska   Poland  (POL)	43.48
4 × 400 metres relay details	Brigitte Rohde Waltraud Dietsch Angelika Handt Ellen Streidt   East Germany  (GDR)	3:25.21 CR	Marika Eklund Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Pirjo Wilmi Riitta Salin   Finland  (FIN)	3:25.70 NR	Inta Kļimoviča Ingrīda Barkāne Nadezhda Kolesnikova Natalya Sokolova   Soviet Union  (URS)	3:26.10

Field

1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Rosemarie Witschas   East Germany	1.95 m CR WR	Milada Karbanová   Czechoslovakia	1.91 m	Sara Simeoni   Italy	1.89 m
Long jump details	Ilona Bruzsenyák   Hungary	6.65 m	Eva Šuranová   Czechoslovakia	6.60 m	Pirkko Helenius   Finland	6.59 m
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova   Soviet Union	20.78 m CR	Marianne Adam   East Germany	20.43 m	Helena Fibingerová   Czechoslovakia	20.33 m
Discus throw details	Faina Melnik   Soviet Union	69.00 m CR	Argentina Menis   Romania	64.62 m	Gabriele Hinzmann   East Germany	62.50 m
Javelin throw details	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	67.22 m CR, WR	Jacqueline Todten   East Germany	62.10 m	Nataša Urbančič   Yugoslavia	61.66 m
Pentathlon details	Nadiya Tkachenko   Soviet Union	4776 pts	Burglinde Pollak   East Germany	4678 pts	Zoya Spasovkhodskaya   Soviet Union	4550 pts

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany  (GDR)	10	12	5	27
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	9	3	5	17
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	4	3	4	11
4	Poland  (POL)	4	2	4	10
5	Finland  (FIN)	4	1	5	10
6	France  (FRA)	2	2	0	4
7	West Germany  (FRG)	1	5	6	12
8	Italy  (ITA)*	1	2	2	5
9	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	1	1	1	3
10	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	1	0	2
	Denmark  (DEN)	1	1	0	2
12	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	0	1
13	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	3	2	5
14	Romania  (ROU)	0	2	1	3
15	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	1	2
16	Norway  (NOR)	0	0	2	2
17	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		39	39	39	117

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 747 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, two athletes more than the official number of 745 as published. ^[6]

•   Austria (5)
•   Belgium (21)
•   Bulgaria (25)
•   Cyprus (1)
•   Czechoslovakia (46)
•   Denmark (12)
•   East Germany (71)
•   Finland (33)
•   France (44)
•   Gibraltar (1)
•   Greece (12)
•   Hungary (21)
•   Iceland (2)
•   Ireland (7)
•   Italy (48)
•   Liechtenstein (1)
•   Luxembourg (2)
•   Netherlands (13)
•   Norway (14)
•   Poland (56)
•   Portugal (4)
•   Romania (20)
•   Soviet Union (83)
•   Spain (17)
•   Sweden (33)
•    Switzerland (12)
•   Great Britain (68)
•   West Germany (64)
•   Yugoslavia (11)

References

1. Marshall, Ron (September 2, 1974), Rome games off with a bang, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014
2. Marshall, Ron (September 3, 1974), Simmons just beaten for gold, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014
3. Marshall, Ron (September 7, 1974), Clement fails to qualify, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014
4. Marshall, Ron (September 9, 1974), Britain end games with a gold rush, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014
5. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014
6. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014

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