1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

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Men's 400 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 400 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 2, 3, and 4 September 1974. [1]

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The winning margin was 0.63 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the men's 400 metres has been won by more than 0.6 seconds at these championships since the introduction of fully automatic timing, although the winning margin in the 1938 European Athletics Championships was a hand-timed 0.8 seconds.

Medalists

Gold Karl Honz
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Silver David Jenkins
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Bronze Bernd Herrmann
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany

Results

Final

4 September

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Karl Honz Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 45.04CR
Silver medal icon.svg David Jenkins Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 45.67
Bronze medal icon.svg Bernd Herrmann Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 45.78
4 Markku Kukkoaho Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 45.84
5 Ossi Karttunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 45.87
6 Michael Fredriksson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 46.12
7 Erik Carlgren Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 46.15
8 Francis Demarthon Flag of France.svg  France 46.90

Semi-finals

3 September

Semi-final 1

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Karl Honz Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 46.24Q
2 Francis Demarthon Flag of France.svg  France 46.28Q
3 Markku Kukkoaho Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 46.29Q
4 Erik Carlgren Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 46.51Q
5 Jürgen Utikal Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 46.62
6 Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 46.64
7 Per-Olof Sjöberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 46.68
8 Roger Jenkins Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 47.30

Semi-final 2

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 David Jenkins Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 45.93Q
2 Ossi Karttunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 46.36Q
3 Michael Fredriksson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 46.39Q
4 Bernd Herrmann Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 46.40Q
5 Alfons Brijdenbach Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 46.43
6 Milorad Čikić Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia 47.04
7 Andreas Scheibe Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 47.24
8 Toine van den Goolberg Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 47.40

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 45.92Q
2 Alfons Brijdenbach Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 46.00Q
3 Francis Demarthon Flag of France.svg  France 46.11Q
4 Andreas Scheibe Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 46.38Q
5 Per-Olof Sjöberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 46.63q
6 Roger Jenkins Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 46.78q
7 Roman Siedlecki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 47.35

Heat 2

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Bernd Herrmann Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 46.30Q
2 Markku Kukkoaho Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 46.38Q
3 Jürgen Utikal Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 46.44Q
4 Toine van den Goolberg Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 46.46Q
5 Milorad Čikić Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia 46.68q
6 Michael Fredriksson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 47.01q
7 Stephen Marlow Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 48.71

Heat 3

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Ossi Karttunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 46.50Q
2 David Jenkins Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 46.60Q
3 Erik Carlgren Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 46.97Q
4 Karl Honz Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 46.98Q
5 Josip Alebić Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia 47.41
6 Pasqualino Abeti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 47.80

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014