1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 7 and 8 September 1974. [1] The third-placed Finnish team was initially disqualified over Markku Kukkoaho's use of his elbows at the start of the anchor leg, but Finland launched a successful counter-protest and kept the bronze medals. [2]

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Medalists

Gold Glen Cohen
Bill Hartley
Alan Pascoe
David Jenkins
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Silver Hermann Köhler
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Karl Honz
Rolf Ziegler
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Bronze Stig Lönnqvist
Ossi Karttunen
Markku Taskinen
Markku Kukkoaho
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland

Results

Final

8 September

RankNationCompetitorsTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Glen Cohen
Bill Hartley
Alan Pascoe
David Jenkins
3:03.33
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  West Germany Hermann Köhler
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Karl Honz
Rolf Ziegler
3:03.52
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Finland.svg  Finland Stig Lönnqvist
Ossi Karttunen
Markku Taskinen
Markku Kukkoaho
3:03.57
4Flag of France.svg  France Jean-Claude Nallet
Roger Vélasquez
Jacques Carette
Francis Demarthon
3:04.6
5Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany Reinhard Kokot
Benno Stops
Jürgen Utikal
Andreas Scheibe
3:05.0
6Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Raymond Heerenveen
Rijn van den Heuvel
Frank Nusse
Toine van den Goolberg
3:06.3NR
7Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Per-Olof Sjöberg
Dimitrie Grama
Erik Carlgren
Michael Fredriksson
3:12.6
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union Valeriy Yurchenko
Vladimir Nosenko
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko
Semyon Kocher
DNF

Heats

7 September

Heat 1

RankNationCompetitorsTimeNotes
1Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Stig Lönnqvist
Ossi Karttunen
Markku Taskinen
Markku Kukkoaho
3:04.6Q
2Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Glen Cohen
Bill Hartley
Alan Pascoe
David Jenkins
3:04.7Q
3Flag of France.svg  France Jean-Claude Nallet
Roger Vélasquez
Jacques Carette
Francis Demarthon
3:05.3Q
4Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Raymond Heerenveen
Rijn van den Heuvel
Frank Nusse
Toine van den Goolberg
3:06.28Q
5Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Flavio Borghi
Alfonso di Guida
Lorenzo Cellerino
Marcello Fiasconaro
3:08.5
6Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia Ivica Ivičak
Milorad Čikić
Josip Alebić
Luciano Sušanj
3:37.8

Heat 2

RankNationCompetitorsTimeNotes
1Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union Valeriy Yurchenko
Vladimir Nosenko
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko
Semyon Kocher
3:05.3Q
2Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Per-Olof Sjöberg
Dimitrie Grama
Erik Carlgren
Michael Fredriksson
3:05.5Q
3Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany Reinhard Kokot
Benno Stops
Jürgen Utikal
Andreas Scheibe
3:05.8Q
4Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany Hermann Köhler
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Karl Honz
Bernd Herrmann
3:05.8Q
5Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia Ivan Daniš
František Štross
Miroslav Tulis
Miroslav Kodejš
3:06.29

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

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References

  1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014
  2. Peltola, Vesa-Matti (December 2006). "Yleisurheilun arvokisatulosten ristiriitaisuuksia". Suomen Urheilutietäjät (in Finnish). Retrieved 27 January 2019.