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1974 European Athletics Championships

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11th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1974 European Athletics Championships
Dates1 – 8 September
Host cityRome, Italy
VenueStadio Olimpico
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events39
Participation745 athletes from
29 nations

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
100 metres
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Valeriy Borzov
 Soviet Union
10.27 Pietro Mennea
 Italy
10.34 Klaus-Dieter Bieler
 West Germany
10.35
200 metres
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Pietro Mennea
 Italy
20.60 Manfred Ommer
 West Germany
20.76 Hans-Jürgen Bombach
 East Germany
20.83
400 metres
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Karl Honz
 West Germany
45.04 CR David Jenkins
 Great Britain
45.67 Bernd Herrmann
 West Germany
45.78
800 metres
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Luciano Sušanj
 Yugoslavia
1:44.07 CR Steve Ovett
 Great Britain
1:45.76 Markku Taskinen
 Finland
1:45.89
1500 metres
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Klaus-Peter Justus
 East Germany
3:40.55 Thomas Hansen
 Denmark
3:40.75 Thomas Wessinghage
 West Germany
3:41.10
5000 metres
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Brendan Foster
 Great Britain
13:17.21 CR Manfred Kuschmann
 East Germany
13:23.93 Lasse Virén
 Finland
13:24.57
10,000 metres
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Manfred Kuschmann
 East Germany
28:25.75 Tony Simmons
 Great Britain
28:25.79 Giuseppe Cindolo
 Italy
28:27.05
Marathon
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Ian Thompson
 Great Britain
2:13:19 Eckhard Lesse
 East Germany
2:14:57 Gaston Roelants
 Belgium
2:16:30
20 kilometres walk
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Volodymyr Holubnychy
 Soviet Union
1:29:30 Bernd Kannenberg
 West Germany
1:29:38 Roger Mills
 Great Britain
1:32:34
50 kilometres walk
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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
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Guy Drut
 France
13.40 CR Mirosław Wodzyński
 Poland
13.67 Leszek Wodzyński
 Poland
13.71
400 metres hurdles
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Alan Pascoe
 Great Britain
48.82 CR Jean-Claude Nallet
 France
48.94 Yevgeniy Gavrilenko
 Soviet Union
49.32
3000 metres steeplechase
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Bronisław Malinowski
 Poland
8:15.04 CR Anders Gärderud
 Sweden
8:15.41 Michael Karst
 West Germany
8:17.91
4 × 100 metres relay
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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
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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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Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Jesper Tørring
 Denmark
2.25 m CR Kęstutis Šapka
 Soviet Union
2.25 m =CR Vladimír Malý
 Czechoslovakia
2.19 m
Pole vault
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Vladimir Kishkun
 Soviet Union
5.35 m =CR Władysław Kozakiewicz
 Poland
5.35 m Yury Isakov
 Soviet Union
5.30 m
Long jump
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Valeriy Podluzhniy
 Soviet Union
8.12 m w Nenad Stekić
 Yugoslavia
8.05 m CR Yevgeni Schubin
 Soviet Union
7.98 m
Triple jump
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Viktor Saneyev
 Soviet Union
17.23 m CR Carol Corbu
 Romania
16.68 m Andrzej Sontag
 Poland
16.61 m
Shot put
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Hartmut Briesenick
 East Germany
20.50 m Ralf Reichenbach
 West Germany
20.38 m Geoff Capes
 Great Britain
20.21 m
Discus throw
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Pentti Kahma
 Finland
63.62 m Ludvík Daněk
 Czechoslovakia
62.76 m Ricky Bruch
 Sweden
62.00 m
Hammer throw
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Aleksey Spiridonov
 Soviet Union
74.20 m Jochen Sachse
 East Germany
74.00 m Reinhard Theimer
 East Germany
71.62 m
Javelin throw
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Hannu Siitonen
 Finland
89.58 m Wolfgang Hanisch
 East Germany
85.46 m Terje Thorslund
 Norway
83.68 m
Decathlon
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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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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Irena Szewińska
 Poland
11.13 CR Renate Stecher
 East Germany
11.23 Andrea Lynch
 Great Britain
11.28
200 metres
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Irena Szewińska
 Poland
22.51 CR Renate Stecher
 East Germany
22.68 Mona-Lisa Pursiainen
 Finland
23.17
400 metres
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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
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Lilyana Tomova
 Bulgaria
1:58.14 CR Gunhild Hoffmeister
 East Germany
1:58.81 Mariana Suman
 Romania
1:59.84
1500 metres
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Gunhild Hoffmeister
 East Germany
4:02.25 CR Lilyana Tomova
 Bulgaria
4:04.97 Grete Andersen
 Norway
4:05.21
3000 metres
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Nina Holmén
 Finland
8:55.10 Lyudmila Bragina
 Soviet Union
8:56.09 Joyce Smith
 Great Britain
8:57.39
100 metres hurdles
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Annelie Ehrhardt
 East Germany
12.66 CR Annerose Fiedler
 East Germany
12.89 Teresa Nowak
 Poland
12.91
4 × 100 metres relay
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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
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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
High jump
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Rosemarie Witschas
 East Germany
1.95 m CR WR Milada Karbanová
 Czechoslovakia
1.91 m Sara Simeoni
 Italy
1.89 m
Long jump
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Ilona Bruzsenyák
 Hungary
6.65 m Eva Šuranová
 Czechoslovakia
6.60 m Pirkko Helenius
 Finland
6.59 m
Shot put
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Nadezhda Chizhova
 Soviet Union
20.78 m CR Marianne Adam
 East Germany
20.43 m Helena Fibingerová
 Czechoslovakia
20.33 m
Discus throw
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Faina Melnik
 Soviet Union
69.00 m CR Argentina Menis
 Romania
64.62 m Gabriele Hinzmann
 East Germany
62.50 m
Javelin throw
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Ruth Fuchs
 East Germany
67.22 m CR, WR Jacqueline Todten
 East Germany
62.10 m Nataša Urbančič
 Yugoslavia
61.66 m
Pentathlon
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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)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 East Germany (GDR)1012527
2 Soviet Union (URS)93517
3 Great Britain (GBR)43411
4 Poland (POL)42410
5 Finland (FIN)41510
6 France (FRA)2204
7 West Germany (FRG)15612
8 Italy (ITA)*1225
9 Yugoslavia (YUG)1113
10 Bulgaria (BUL)1102
 Denmark (DEN)1102
12 Hungary (HUN)1001
13 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0325
14 Romania (ROU)0213
15 Sweden (SWE)0112
16 Norway (NOR)0022
17 Belgium (BEL)0011
Totals (17 entries)393939117

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]

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