1974 European Athletics Championships

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]

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 →

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	1:45.76	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

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	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

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, 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

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	6.60 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

  *   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
	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

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)