1975 European Cup (athletics)

The 1975 European Cup was the 5th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

1975 European Cup
Host city	Nice, France
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	33
← 1973 Edinburgh 1977 Helsinki →

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