1975 European Cup (athletics)

1975 European Cup
Host city	Nice, France
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	33
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The 1975 European Cup was the 5th edition of the European Cup of athletics. ^[1]

The Finals were held in Nice, France.

Final

Main article: 1975 European Cup Final (athletics)

Held in Nice on 16 and 17 August for both men and women. ^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 112 2   Soviet Union 109 3 Poland 100 4   Great Britain 83 5   West Germany 83 6   Finland 83 7   France 80 8   Italy 68

Women Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 97 2   Soviet Union 77 3   West Germany 64 4 Poland 57 5 Romania 52 6 Bulgaria 47 7   Great Britain 39 8   France 35

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -0.7 m/s)	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	10.40	Pietro Mennea   Italy	10.40	Alexander Thieme   East Germany	10.53
200 m (Wind: -0.9 m/s)	Pietro Mennea   Italy	20.42 CR	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	20.61	Antti Rajamäki   Finland	20.97
400 m	David Jenkins   Great Britain	45.52	Markku Kukkoaho   Finland	45.56	Jerzy Pietrzyk   Poland	45.67
800 m	Steve Ovett   Great Britain	1:46.56	Dieter Fromm   East Germany	1:47.36	Vladimir Ponomaryov   Soviet Union	1:47.64
1500 m	Thomas Wessinghage   West Germany	3:39.1a	Bronisław Malinowski   Poland	3:39.8a	Frank Clement   Great Britain	3:40.1a
5000 m	Brendan Foster   Great Britain	13:36.18 CR	Enn Sellik   Soviet Union	13:42.8a	Manfred Kuschmann   East Germany	13:44.78
10,000 m	Karl-Heinz Leiteritz   East Germany	28:37.2a	Dave Black   Great Britain	28:42.2a	Giuseppe Cindolo   Italy	28:48.0a
3000 m steeplechase	Michael Karst   West Germany	8:16.4a	Frank Baumgartl   East Germany	8:17.6a	Bronisław Malinowski   Poland	8:18.6a
110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.4 m/s)	Guy Drut   France	13.57 CR	Thomas Munkelt   East Germany	13.78	Viktor Myasnikov   Soviet Union	13.88
400 m hurdles	Alan Pascoe   Great Britain	49.00 CR	Jean-Claude Nallet   France	49.38	Jerzy Hewelt   Poland	50.59
4 × 100 m	East Germany Hans-Joachim Zenk Thomas Munkelt Hans-Jürgen Bombach Alexander Thieme	38.98 CR	Soviet Union Aleksandr Kornelyuk Nikolay Kolesnikov Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	39.00	Italy Vincenzo Guerini Luciano Caravani Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.32
4 × 400 m	Great Britain Glen Cohen Jim Aukett Bill Hartley David Jenkins	3:02.9a	West Germany Franz-Peter Hofmeister Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Lothar Krieg Bernd Herrmann	3:03.4a	Finland Juhani Tiihonen Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho	3:04.1a
High jump	Aleksandr Grigoryev   Soviet Union	2.24 CR	Paul Poaniewa   France	2.22	Rolf Beilschmidt   East Germany	2.20
Pole vault	Władysław Kozakiewicz   Poland	5.45	Antti Kalliomäki   Finland	5.40	Yuriy Isakov   Soviet Union	5.40
Long jump	Grzegorz Cybulski   Poland	8.15 CR	Valeriy Podluzhniy   Soviet Union	7.92	Peter Rieger   East Germany	7.70
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev   Soviet Union	16.97	Christian Valétudié   France	16.70	Andrzej Sontag   Poland	16.32
Shot put	Geoff Capes   Great Britain	20.75	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg   East Germany	20.33	Valeriy Voykin   Soviet Union	19.47
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt   East Germany	63.16	Pentti Kahma   Finland	62.70	Hein-Direck Neu   West Germany	62.20
Hammer throw	Karl-Hans Riehm   West Germany	77.50 CR	Valentin Dmitrenko   Soviet Union	77.22	Jochen Sachse   East Germany	76.04
Javelin throw	Nikolay Grebnyev   Soviet Union	84.30	Piotr Bielczyk   Poland	82.00	Seppo Hovinen   Finland	81.02
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: -0.5 m/s)	Renate Stecher   East Germany	11.29	Andrea Lynch   Great Britain	11.37	Irena Szewińska   Poland	11.41
200 m (Wind: -0.8 m/s)	Renate Stecher   East Germany	22.63 CR	Irena Szewińska   Poland	22.84	Annegret Richter   West Germany	23.28
400 m	Irena Szewińska   Poland	50.50 CR	Ellen Streidt   East Germany	50.61	Donna Murray   Great Britain	51.30
800 m	Mariana Suman   Romania	2:00.6a	Ulrike Klapezynski   East Germany	2:00.7a	Lilyana Tomova   Bulgaria	2:01.1a
1500 m	Waltraud Strotzer   East Germany	4:08.0a	Natalia Andrei   Romania	4:08.4a	Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union	4:08.9a
100 m hurdles (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	Annelie Ehrhardt   East Germany	12.83 CR	Grażyna Rabsztyn   Poland	12.85	Natalya Lebedeva   Soviet Union	12.93
4 × 100 m	East Germany Monika Meyer Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Sybille Priebsch	42.81 CR	Soviet Union Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Lyudmila Maslakova Svetlana Belova Vera Anisimova	43.19	West Germany Inge Helten Annegret Kroniger Annegret Richter Brigit Wilkes	43.58
4 × 400 m	East Germany Brigitte Rohde Gisela Anton Rita Kühne Ellen Streidt	3:24.0a CR	Great Britain Jannette Roscoe Gladys Taylor Verona Elder Donna Murray	3:26.6a	Soviet Union Inta Kļimoviča Larisa Golovanova Ingrida Barkane Nadezhda Ilyina	3:27.0a
High jump	Rosemarie Ackermann   East Germany	1.94	Ulrike Meyfarth   West Germany	1.92	Virginia Ioan   Romania	1.86
Long jump	Lidiya Alfeyeva   Soviet Union	6.76	Christa Striezel   West Germany	6.56	Jacqueline Curtet   France	6.36
Shot put	Marianne Adam   East Germany	21.32 CR	Svetlana Krachevskaya   Soviet Union	20.53	Ivanka Khristova   Bulgaria	20.24
Discus throw	Faina Melnik   Soviet Union	66.54	Gabriele Hinzmann   East Germany	64.72	Argentina Menis   Romania	63.60
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	64.80	Svetlana Babich   Soviet Union	61.88	Lyutviyan Mollova   Bulgaria	58.36
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 12 and 13 July. ^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Turin, Italy Pos. Nation Points 1   West Germany 101 2   Italy 83 3 Romania 65 4   Hungary 62 5   Czechoslovakia 61 6   Belgium 47

Semifinal 2 Held in London, United Kingdom Pos. Nation Points 1 Poland 92 2   Great Britain 91 3   Soviet Union 80 4   Sweden 68 5 Spain 49 6 Bulgaria 38

Semifinal 3 Held in Leipzig, East Germany Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 98 2   Finland 89 3   France 71.5 4   Yugoslavia 61.5 5   Switzerland 55 6 Greece 43

Women

All semifinals were held on 12 July. ^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Lüdenscheid, West Germany Pos. Nation Points 1 Poland 63 2   West Germany 63 3   Finland 48 4   Czechoslovakia 44 5   Italy 33 6   Denmark 21

Semifinal 2 Held in Sofia, Bulgaria Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 77 2 Bulgaria 54 3   Great Britain 53 4   Netherlands 32 5   Sweden 31 6   Yugoslavia 26

Semifinal 3 Held in Budapest, Hungary Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 68 2 Romania 50 3   Hungary 46 4   France 37 5   Austria 36 6   Belgium 34

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 14 and 15 June. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held in Lisbon, Portugal Pos. Nation Points 1 Spain 114 2   Switzerland 110 3   Belgium 93 4   Netherlands 88 5   Portugal 65 6   Iceland 46 7   Ireland 43

Preliminary 2 Held in Athens, Greece Pos. Nation Points 1 Romania 94 2 Bulgaria 92 3 Greece 90 4   Norway 59 5   Austria 47 6   Denmark 45

Women

All preliminaries were held on 14 June. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held in Madrid, Spain Pos. Nation Points 1   Czechoslovakia 63 2   Belgium 57 3   Sweden 52 4   Switzerland 52 5 Spain 28 6   Portugal 20

Preliminary 2 Held in Osijek, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1   Yugoslavia 50 2   Austria 45 3   Denmark 41 4   Ireland 31 5 Greece 27

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 (p466–467)

External links

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