1974 European Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

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

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Complete results were published.[5]

### Track

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1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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### Track

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1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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* Host nation (Italy)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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

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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

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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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