1974 European Athletics Championships
11th European Athletics Championships | |
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The logo of the 1974 European Athletics Championships | |
Host city | Rome, Italy |
Date(s) | 1 – 8 September 1974 |
Main stadium | Stadio Olimpico |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
Participation | 745 athletes from 29 nations |
Events | 39 |
← 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]
Contents
1 Men's results
1.1 Track
1.2 Field
2 Women's results
2.1 Track
2.2 Field
3 Medal table
4 Participation
5 References
Men's results
Complete results were published.[5]
Track
1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres | Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union | 10.27 | Pietro Mennea Italy | 10.34 | Klaus-Dieter Bieler West Germany | 10.35 |
200 metres | Pietro Mennea Italy | 20.60 | Manfred Ommer West Germany | 20.76 | Hans-Jürgen Bombach East Germany | 20.83 |
400 metres | Karl Honz West Germany | 45.04 CR | David Jenkins Great Britain | 45.67 | Bernd Herrmann West Germany | 45.78 |
800 metres | Luciano Susanj Yugoslavia | 1:44.07 CR | Steve Ovett Great Britain | 1:45.77 | Markku Taskinen Finland | 1:45.89 |
1500 metres | Klaus-Peter Justus East Germany | 3:40.55 | Thomas Hansen Denmark | 3:40.75 | Thomas Wessinghage West Germany | 3:41.10 |
5000 metres | Brendan Foster Great Britain | 13:17.21 CR | Manfred Kuschmann East Germany | 13:23.93 | Lasse Virén Finland | 13:24.57 |
10,000 metres | Manfred Kuschmann East Germany | 28:25.75 | Tony Simmons Great Britain | 28:25.79 | Giuseppe Cindolo Italy | 28:27.05 |
Marathon | Ian Thompson Great Britain | 2:13:19 | Eckhard Lesse East Germany | 2:14:57 | Gaston Roelants Belgium | 2:16:30 |
20 kilometres walk | Volodymyr Holubnychy Soviet Union | 1:29:30 | Bernd Kannenberg West Germany | 1:29:38 | Roger Mills Great Britain | 1:32:34 |
50 kilometres walk | 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 | Guy Drut France | 13.40 CR | Mirosław Wodzyński Poland | 13.67 | Leszek Wodzyński Poland | 13.71 |
400 metres hurdles | Alan Pascoe Great Britain | 48.82 CR | Jean-Claude Nallet France | 48.94 | Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Soviet Union | 49.32 |
3000 metres steeplechase | Bronisław Malinowski Poland | 8:15.04 CR | Anders Gärderud Sweden | 8:15.41 | Michael Karst West Germany | 8:17.91 |
4 × 100 metres relay | 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 | 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 | |||
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High jump | Jesper Tørring Denmark | 2.25 m CR | Kęstutis Šapka Soviet Union | 2.25 m =CR | Vladimír Malý Czechoslovakia | 2.19 m |
Pole vault | Vladimir Kischkun Soviet Union | 5.35 m =CR | Władysław Kozakiewicz Poland | 5.35 m | Yuri Isakov Soviet Union | 5.30 m |
Long jump | Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union | 8.12 m w | Nenad Stekić Yugoslavia | 8.05 m CR | Yevgeni Schubin Soviet Union | 7.98 m |
Triple jump | Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union | 17.23 m CR | Carol Corbu Romania | 16.68 m | Andrzej Sontag Poland | 16.61 m |
Shot put | Hartmut Briesenick East Germany | 20.50 m | Ralf Reichenbach West Germany | 20.38 m | Geoff Capes Great Britain | 20.21 m |
Discus throw | Pentti Kahma Finland | 63.62 m | Ludvík Daněk Czechoslovakia | 62.76 m | Ricky Bruch Sweden | 62.00 m |
Hammer throw | Aleksey Spiridonov Soviet Union | 74.20 m | Jochen Sachse East Germany | 74.00 m | Reinhard Theimer East Germany | 71.62 m |
Javelin throw | Hannu Siitonen Finland | 89.58 m | Wolfgang Hanisch East Germany | 85.46 m | Terje Thorslund Norway | 83.68 m |
Decathlon | Ryszard Skowronek Poland | 8207 pts CR | Yves Leroy France | 8146 pts | Guido Kratschmer West Germany | 8132 pts |
Women's results
Track
1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres | Irena Szewińska Poland | 11.13 CR | Renate Stecher East Germany | 11.23 | Andrea Lynch Great Britain | 11.28 |
200 metres | Irena Szewińska Poland | 22.51 CR | Renate Stecher East Germany | 22.68 | Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Finland | 23.17 |
400 metres | Riitta Salin Finland | 50.14 CR, WR | Ellen Streidt East Germany | 50.69 | Rita Wilden West Germany | 50.88 |
800 metres | Lilyana Tomova Bulgaria | 1:58.14 CR | Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany | 1:58.81 | Mariana Suman Romania | 1:59.84 |
1500 metres | Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany | 4:02.25 CR | Lilyana Tomova Bulgaria | 4:04.97 | Grete Andersen Norway | 4:05.21 |
3000 metres | Nina Holmén Finland | 8:55.10 | Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union | 8:56.09 | Joyce Smith Great Britain | 8:57.39 |
100 metres hurdles | Annelie Ehrhardt East Germany | 12.66 CR | Annerose Fiedler East Germany | 12.89 | Teresa Nowak Poland | 12.91 |
4 × 100 metres relay | 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 | 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 | |||
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High jump | Rosemarie Witschas East Germany | 1.95 m CR | Milada Karbanová Czechoslovakia | 1.91 m | Sara Simeoni Italy | 1.89 m |
Long jump | Ilona Bruzsenyák Hungary | 6.65 m | Eva Šuranová Czechoslovakia | 6.65 m | Pirkko Helenius Finland | 6.59 m |
Shot put | Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union | 20.78 m CR | Marianne Adam East Germany | 20.43 m | Helena Fibingerová Czechoslovakia | 20.33 m |
Discus throw | Faina Melnik Soviet Union | 69.00 m CR | Argentina Menis Romania | 64.62 m | Gabriele Hinzmann East Germany | 62.50 m |
Javelin throw | Ruth Fuchs East Germany | 67.22 m CR, WR | Jacqueline Todten East Germany | 62.10 m | Nataša Urbančič Yugoslavia | 61.66 m |
Pentathlon | Nadezhda 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 |
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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 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]
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References
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Marshall, Ron (September 3, 1974), Simmons just beaten for gold, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014
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Marshall, Ron (September 9, 1974), Britain end games with a gold rush, Glasgow Herald, p. 4, retrieved September 10, 2014
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