1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

1974 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 100 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 2 and 3 September 1974.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union
Silver	Pietro Mennea  Italy
Bronze	Klaus-Dieter Bieler  West Germany

Results[]

Final[]

3 September Wind: -1m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.27
	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.34
	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	10.35
4	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.35
5	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.35
6	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	10.36
7	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.39
8	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.43

Semi-finals[]

3 September

Semi-final 1[]

Wind: 2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.39	Q
2	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	10.42	Q
3	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.42	Q
4	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.45	Q
5	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.50
6	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.52
7	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.55
8	Michael Droese	East Germany	10.59

Semi-final 2[]

Wind: 1.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.28	Q
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.29	Q
3	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.36	Q
4	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	10.44	Q
5	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.44
6	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.46
7	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.61
8	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.69

Heats[]

2 September

Heat 1[]

Wind: -1.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.49	Q
2	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.56	Q
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.64	Q
4	Michael Droese	East Germany	10.65	q
5	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.67	q
6	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.80
7		Finland	10.85

Heat 2[]

Wind: -2.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.46	Q
2	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.54	Q
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.63	q
4	Andrzej Świerczyński	Poland	10.73
5	Hans-Joachim Zenk	East Germany	10.82
6	Endre Lepold	Hungary	10.97

Heat 3[]

Wind: -0.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.53	Q
2	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	10.54	Q
3	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.57	Q
4	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.62	q
5	Javier Martínez	Spain	10.82
6	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.86
7		Hungary	10.95

Heat 4[]

Wind: -1m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.58	Q
2	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.59	Q
3	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	10.59	Q
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.70	q
5		Hungary	10.74
6	Marian Woronin	Poland	10.77
7		Sweden	10.78
8	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.92

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

References[]