1974 European Athletics Championships

11th European Athletics Championships
11th European Athletics Championships
	The logo of the 1974 European Athletics Championships
Dates	1 – 8 September 1974
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	1:45.77	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	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, WR	Ellen Streidt East Germany	50.69	Rita Wilden West Germany	50.88
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	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	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	6.65 m	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
10	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 nations)		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[]

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

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[herald_01-1] Marshall, Ron (September 2, 1974), Rome games off with a bang, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014

[herald_02-2] Marshall, Ron (September 3, 1974), Simmons just beaten for gold, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014

[herald_03-3] Marshall, Ron (September 7, 1974), Clement fails to qualify, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014

[herald_04-4] Marshall, Ron (September 9, 1974), Britain end games with a gold rush, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014

[eaa_01-5] European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014

[eaa_ref-6] European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014

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