European Athletics Championships 1974

11th European Athletics Championships
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Competitions	39
World records	4th
opening	September 1, 1974
Closing ceremony	September 8, 1974
timeline
← Helsinki 1971	Prague 1978 →

Medal table  (final score after 39 decisions)
space	country
1	GDR	10	12	5	27
2	USSR	9	3	5	17th
3	Great Britain	4th	3	4th	11
4th	Poland	4th	2	4th	10
5	Finland	4th	1	4th	9
6th	France	2	2	1	5
7th	BR Germany	1	5	6th	12
8th	Italy	1	2	2	5
9	Yugoslavia	1	1	1	3
10	Bulgaria	1	1	-	2
	Denmark	1	1	-	2
Complete medal table

The 11th European Athletics Championships took place from September 1 to 8, 1974 in the Italian capital, Rome . Except for the marathon and walking events , the competitions were in the Olympic Stadium of 1960 discharged.

Competitions

The women’s first long distance was the 3000 meter run in the competition program.

Athletic performance

These European championships - like the two previous European championships - were dominated by athletes from the GDR - ten gold medals - and the Soviet Union - nine European championship titles. Great Britain , Poland and Finland followed well behind with four titles each.

• Three new world records were set - exclusively in the women's area - all by female athletes from the GDR :
  • 4 × 100 m relay of women: GDR ( Doris Maletzki , Renate Stecher , Christina Heinich , Bärbel Eckert ) - 42.51 s.
  • High jump : Rosemarie Witschas , GDR - 1.95 m
  • Javelin throw : Ruth Fuchs , GDR - 67.22 m
• There was a new European record by electronic standards:
  • 400 meters : Riitta Salin , Finland - 50.14 s.
• Two athletes won two gold medals each at these championships:
  • Irena Szewińska ( Poland ) - 100 meters , 200 meters
  • Alan Pascoe (Great Britain) - 400 meter hurdles , 4 × 400 m relay
• Six of the European champions from 1974 had already won European championships:
  • Irena Szewińska (Poland) - 200 meters, repeat of her success from 1966 , also winner in 1966 with the 4 × 100 m relay and in the long jump and in 1974 over 100 meters, now five times European champion
  • Nadezhda Tschischowa (Soviet Union) - Shot put , fourth success in a row since 1966, now four-time European champion
  • Valery Borsow ( Soviet Union ) - 100 meters, third success in a row since 1969, in addition winner in 1971 over 200 meters, now four times European champion
  • Christoph Höhne (GDR) - 50 km walk , repetition of his success from 1969
  • Viktor Saneyev (Soviet Union) - triple jump , repetition of his 1969 success
  • Faina Melnik (Soviet Union) - discus throw , repeating her success from 1971

Results men

100 m

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Valery Borsow (here in 2012) won his fourth European Championship title with his sprint victory

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Valery Borsov	URS	10.27 SB
2	Pietro Mennea	ITA	10.34
3	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	FRG	10.35 SB
4th	Juris Silovs	URS	10.35 SB
5	Dominique Chauvelot	FRA	10.35
6th	Manfred Ommer	FRG	10.36
7th	Christer Garpenborg	SWE	10.39 SB
8th	Alexandr Korneljuk	URS	10.43 SB

Final: September 3rd

Wind: −1.0 m / s

200 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.60 SB
2	Manfred Ommer	FRG	20.76 SB
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	20.83
4th	Joseph Arame	FRA	20.83 SB
5	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	FRG	20.93 SB
6th	Bruno Cherrier	FRA	21.02
7th	Ainsley Bennett	GBR	21.29
DNS	Antti Rajamäki	FIN

Final: September 6th

Wind: −0.8 m / s

400 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Karl Honz	FRG	45.04 CR
2	David Jenkins	GBR	45.67
3	Bernd Herrmann	FRG	45.78
4th	Markku Kukkuoaho	FIN	45.87 SB
5	Ossi Karttunen	FIN	45.87 PB
6th	Michael Fredriksson	SWE	46.12 PB
7th	Erik Carlgren	SWE	46.15 SB
8th	Francis Demarthon	FRA	46.19

Final: September 4th

800 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Luciano Sušanj	YUG	1: 44.07 CR / NO
2	Steve Ovett	GBR	1: 45.77 SB
3	Markku Taskinen	FIN	1: 45.89
4th	Vladimir Ponomarev	URS	1: 46.02
5	Gerhard Stolle	GDR	1: 46.19
6th	Marcello Fiasconaro	ITA	1: 46.28
7th	Dieter Fromm	GDR	1: 46.29
8th	Willi Wuelbeck	FRG	1: 46.31

Final: September 4th

1500 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Klaus-Peter Justus	GDR	3: 40.55 SB
2	Tom Birger Hansen	THE	3: 40.75 SB
3	Thomas Wessinghage	FRG	3: 41.1 SB
4th	Haico Scharn	NED	3: 41.3 SB
5	Volodymyr Pantelej	URS	3: 41.4 SB
6th	Pekka Vasala	FIN	3: 41.5 SB
7th	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	FRG	3: 41.6 SB
8th	Rolf Gysin	SUI	3: 41.8 SB

Final: September 8th

5000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Brendan Foster	GBR	13: 17.21 CR
2	Manfred Kuschmann	GDR	13: 23.93 NO
3	Let Virén	FIN	13: 24.57 SB
4th	Jos Hermens	NED	13: 25.51 NO
5	Ilie Floroiu	ROME	13: 27.12 NO
6th	Arne Kvalheim	NOR	13: 27.23
7th	Stanislav Hoffman	TCH	13: 29.03
8th	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand	FRG	13: 31.93 SB

Final: September 8th

10,000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Manfred Kuschmann	GDR	28: 25.75 SB
2	Tony Simmons	GBR	28: 25.79 PB
3	Giuseppe Cindolo	ITA	28: 27.05
4th	Bronislaw Malinowski	POLE	28: 27.95
5	Nikolai Puklakov	URS	28: 29.14 SB
6th	Knut Børø	NOR	28: 29.19 SB
7th	Let Virén	FIN	28: 29.23 SB
8th	Mariano Haro	ESP	28: 36.00 SB

Date: September 2nd

marathon

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Ian Thompson	GBR	2: 13: 18.8
2	Eckhard Lesse	GDR	2: 14: 57.4
3	Gaston Roelants	BEL	2: 16: 29.6 PB
4th	Bernie Plain	GBR	2: 18: 02.2
5	Jose Reveyn	BEL	2: 19: 36.4 SB
6th	Ferenc Szekeres	HUN	2: 20: 12.8 SB
7th	Giuseppe Cindolo	ITA	2:20:28 SB
8th	Neil Cusack	IRL	2:22:05

Date: September 8th

110 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Guy Drut	FRA	13.40 CR
2	Mirosław Wodzyński	POLE	13.67
3	Leszek Wodzyński	POLE	13.71
4th	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.72
5	Giuseppe Buttari	ITA	13.85
6th	Klaus Fiedler	GDR	13.96
7th	Berwyn Price	GBR	14.05
8th	Frank Siebeck	GDR	14.79

Final: September 8th

Wind: +0.5 m / s

400 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Alan Pascoe	GBR	48.82 CR
2	Jean-Claude Nallet	FRA	48.94 PB
3	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	URS	49.32 SB
4th	Stavros Tziortzis	GRE	49.71 SB
5	Dmitri Stukalov	URS	49.98
6th	Viktor Savchenko	URS	50.01
7th	Jerzy Hewelt	POLE	50.26
8th	Rolf Ziegler	FRG	50.29

Final: September 4th

3000 m obstacle

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Bronislaw Malinowski - at these European Championships in front of his strongest opponent, the Swede Anders Gärderud

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Bronislaw Malinowski	POLE	8: 15.04 CR / NO
2	Gärderud is different	SWE	8: 15.41
3	Michael Karst	FRG	8: 17.91 DR
4th	Franco Fava	ITA	8: 18.85 NO
5	Hanspeter Wehrli	SUI	8: 26.13
6th	Gheorghe Cefan	ROME	8: 26.19
7th	Gerd Frähmcke	FRG	8: 26.53 SB
8th	Gérard Buchheit	FRA	8: 30.2 SB

Final: September 7th

4 × 100 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	France	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot	38.69 CR
2	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	38.88 SB
3	GDR	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke	38.99 SB
4th	USSR	Alexandr Korneljuk Juris Silovs Alexander Aksinin Valery Borsow	39.03 SB
5	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marek Bezynski Ryszard Mardy Zenon Nowosz	39.35 SB
6th	Spain	Luis Sarria Juan Sarrasqueta Miguel Arnau José Luis Sánchez	39.87 SB
7th	BUL	Lyubomir Ivanov Petar Petrow Georgi Ganchew Mirolyub Stoitschew	39.91 SB
8th	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Kynos Jaroslav Matoušek Juraj Demeč Luděk Bohman	39.92 SB

Final: September 8th

4 × 400 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Great Britain	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins	3: 03.33 SB
2	BR Germany	Hermann Köhler, Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske, Karl Honz, Rolf Ziegler, in addition: Bernd Herrmann	3: 03.52 SB
3	France	Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Velasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon	3: 04.6 SB
4th	GDR	Reinhard Kokot Benno stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe	3: 05.0 SB
5	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Reinhard van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg	3: 06.3 SB
6th	Sweden	Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson	3: 12.6
DNF	Soviet Union	Valery Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeny Gavrilenko Semyon Kotscher
DSQ	Finland	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho

Final: September 8th

The Finnish relay team originally took third place in 3: 03.6 min, but was disqualified after the race. The Dutch relay team was also disqualified initially, but this decision was withdrawn by the Jury d'Appell.

Volodymyr Holubnychy

20 km walking

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Volodymyr Holubnychy	URS	1: 29: 30.0 SB
2	Bernd Kannenberg	FRG	1: 29: 38.2 PB
3	Roger Mills	GBR	1: 32: 33.8 PB
4th	Armando Zambaldo	ITA	1: 33: 04.8 SB
5	Jan Ornoch	POLE	1: 33: 19.6 SB
6th	Amos Seddon	GBR	1: 34: 17.6 PB
7th	Alessandro Bellucci	ITA	1: 34: 52.4 PB
8th	Hans Tenggren	SWE	1: 35: 47.0 PB

Date: September 3rd

Volodymyr Holubnytschyj ( as the leader in the photo on the right ) won after u. a. Olympic gold in 1960 and 1968 as well as numerous other medals at the Olympic Games and European Championships, now also the European Championship title.

50 km of walking

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Christoph Höhne	GDR	3: 59: 05.6 CR
2	Otto Bartsch	URS	4: 02: 38.8 SB
3	Peter Selzer	GDR	4: 04: 28.4 SB
4th	Vittorio Visini	ITA	4: 05: 43.6 SB
5	Weniamin soldiersko	URS	4: 09: 31.6 SB
6th	Winfried Skotnicki	GDR	4: 10: 19.0 PB
7th	Gerhard Weidner	FRG	4: 10: 52.4 SB
8th	Heinrich Schubert	FRG	4: 16: 05.0 PB

Date: September 7th

high jump

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Jesper Tørring	THE	2.25 CR / NR
2	Kęstutis Šapka	URS	2.25 CR
3	Vladimír Malý	TCH	2.19
4th	Istvan Major	HUN	2.19 SB
5	Jacek Wszoła	POLE	2.19 SB
6th	Leif Roar Falkum	NOR	2.16 PB
7th	Rodolfo Bergamo	ITA	2.16 PB
8th	Bruno Brokken	BEL	2.13

Final: September 4th

Pole vault

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Vladimir Kishkun	URS	5.35 CRe
2	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	POLE	5.35 CRe
3	Yuri Isakov	URS	5.30 SB
4th	Wojciech Buciarski	POLE	5.30 SB
	Antti Kalliomäki	FIN	5.30 SB
6th	Kjell Isaksson	SWE	5.30 SB
7th	Jānis Lauris	URS	5.20 SBe
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	POLE	5.20 SB

Final: September 6th

Long jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Valery Pidluschnyj	URS	8.12	+2.8
2	Nenad Stekic	YUG	8.05 CR	+1.5
3	Yevgeny Schubin	URS	7.98 PB	+1.9
4th	Hans Baumgartner	FRG	7.93 SB	+1.0
5	Rolf Bernhard	SUI	7.91 NO	+0.9
6th	Wolfram Lauterbach	GDR	7.87 SB	+1.4
7th	Max Klauss	GDR	7.73	+1.4
8th	Tõnu Lepik	URS	7.73 SB	+1.2

Final: September 4th

Viktor Saneyev repeated his title win in 1969 . after winning silver in 1971

Triple jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Viktor Saneyev	URS	17.23 SB
2	Carol Corbu	ROME	16.68 SB
3	Andrzej Sunday	POLE	16.61 SB
4th	Jörg Drehel	GDR	16.54 SB
5	Michał Joachimowski	POLE	16.53 SB
6th	Lothar Gora	GDR	16.42 SB
7th	Jiří Vyčichlo	TCH	16.37 SB
8th	Nikolai Sinichkin	URS	16.17

Final: September 8th

Shot put

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Hartmut Briesenick was the defending champion again this time

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	20.50 SB
2	Ralf Reichenbach	FRG	20.38 SB
3	Geoff Capes	GBR	20.21
4th	Alexander Baryshnikov	URS	20.13
5	Valery Woikin	URS	20.07 SB
6th	Wladyslaw Komar	POLE	19.82
7th	Jaroslav Brabec	TCH	19.73 SB
8th	Udo Beyer	GDR	19.63

Final: September 6th

Discus throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Pentti Kahma	FIN	63.62
2	Ludvík Daněk	TCH	62.76
3	Ricky Bruch	SWE	62.00
4th	Siegfried Pachale	GDR	61.20 SB
5	Welko Welew	BUL	61.00 SB
6th	Viktor Pensikov	URS	60.86
7th	Armando De Vincentiis	ITA	59.68 SB
8th	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	59.56 SB

Final: September 4th

Hammer throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Alexei Spiridonov	URS	74.20
2	Jochen Sachse	GDR	74.00 SB
3	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	71.62
4th	Valentin Dmitrenko	URS	71.18 SB
5	Uwe Beyer	FRG	71.04 SB
6th	Manfred Hüning	FRG	70.58 SB
7th	Heikki Kangas	FIN	70.04
8th	István Encsi	HUN	68.50

Final: September 7th

Javelin throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hannu Siitonen	FIN	89.58 SB
2	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	85.46 SB
3	Terje Thorslund	NOR	83.68 SB
4th	Nikolai Grebnyev	URS	83.66 SB
5	Klaus Wolfermann	FRG	83.36
6th	Jānis Lūsis	URS	83.06 SB
7th	Miklós Németh	HUN	81.06 SB
8th	Lauri Koski-Vähälä	FIN	79.92

Final: September 8th

Decathlon

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space	athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 85 value.
1	Ryszard Skowronek	POLE	8207 CR	8230
2	Yves Leroy	FRA	8146 PB	8144
3	Guido Kratschmer	FRG	8132 SB	8108
4th	Leonid Lytwynenko	URS	8122 PB	8083
5	Ryszard Katus	POLE	7920 SB	7895
6th	Philipp Andres	SUI	7863 PB	7830
7th	Sepp Zeilbauer	AUT	7792 SB	7725
8th	Alexander Blinjayev	URS	7742 PB	7722

Date: 6./7. September

The scoring was based on the points table from 1964.

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved in 1985 according to the current rating system are also listed for comparison. After that, there would only have been one change in the result: the athletes on ranks thirteen and fourteen would have had to swap places. But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Results women

Irena Szewińska won both sprint routes

100 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Irena Szewińska	POLE	11.13 CR / NO
2	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.23 SB
3	Andrea Lynch	GBR	11.28 SB
4th	Lyudmila Maslakova	URS	11.36
5	Annegret Richter	FRG	11.36
6th	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	FIN	11.42
7th	Bärbel Eckert	GDR	11.46
8th	Christina Heinich	GDR	11.63

Final: September 3rd

Wind: −1.2 m / s

200 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Irena Szewińska	POLE	22.51 CR
2	Renate Stecher	GDR	22.68 SB
3	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	FIN	23.17
4th	Lyudmila Maslakova	URS	23.31 SB
5	Helen Golden	GBR	23.38 SB
6th	Annegret Kroniger	FRG	23.38
7th	Christiane Krause	FRG	23.78
8th	Petra Kandarr	GDR	23.99

Final: September 6th

Wind: −2.8 m / s

400 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Riitta Salin	FIN	50.14 ERel
2	Ellen Streidt	GDR	50.69 DR
3	Rita Wilden	FRG	50.88 BR
4th	Nadezhda Ilyina	URS	51.22 NO
5	Angelika Handt	GDR	51.24 PB
6th	Karoline Beetle	AUT	51.77 NO
7th	Verona Bernard	GBR	52.61
8th	Jelica Pavličić	YUG	53.01

Final: September 4th

800 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Liljana Tomowa	BUL	1: 58.14 CR
2	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	1: 58.81 DR
3	Mariana Suman	ROME	1: 59.84 SB
4th	Marie-Françoise Dubois	FRA	1: 59.94 NO
5	Valentina Gerasimova	URS	2: 00.10 SB
6th	Nina Morgunova	URS	2: 00.76 SB
7th	Elżbieta Katolik	POLE	2: 01.37 SB
8th	Gisela Klein	FRG	2: 01.48 SB

Final: September 4th

1500 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 02.25 CR / DR
2	Liljana Tomowa	BUL	4: 04.97 NO
3	Grete Andersen	NOR	4: 05.21 NO
4th	Tatiana Kasankina	URS	4: 05.94 SB
5	Tamara Pangelova	URS	4: 09.93 SB
6th	Ulrike Klapezynski	GDR	4: 10.54 SB
7th	Carmen Valero	ESP	4: 11.61 NO
8th	Joyce Smith	GBR	4: 12.26

Final: September 8th

3000 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Nina Holmén	FIN	8: 55.10 CR / NR
2	Lyudmila Bragina	URS	8: 56.09
3	Joyce Smith	GBR	8: 57.39 PB
4th	Natalia Andrei	ROME	8: 58.95 NO
5	Paola Cacchi	ITA	9: 01.40 PB
6th	Bronislawa Ludichowska	POLE	9: 05.14 NO
7th	Ann Ford	GBR	9: 06.89 SB
8th	Tamara Pangelova	URS	9: 10.56 PB

Date: September 2nd

Annelie Ehrhardt - superior hurdle sprinter of her time

100 m hurdles

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	12.66 CR
2	Annerose Fiedler	GDR	12.89 PB
3	Teresa Nowak	POLE	12.91 PB
4th	Valeria Bufanu	ROME	13.04 SB
5	Gudrun Berend	GDR	13.14 SB
6th	Tatiana Anisimova	URS	13.16 SB
7th	Natalia Lebedeva	URS	13.19 SB
8th	Grażyna Rabsztyn	POLE	13.53

Final: September 7th

Wind: +0.2 m / s

4 × 100 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	GDR	Doris Maletzki Renate Stecher Christina Heinich Bärbel Eckert	42.51 WR
2	BR Germany	Elfgard Schittenhelm Annegret Kroniger Annegret Judge Inge Helten	42.75 BR
3	Poland	Ewa Długołęcka Danuta Jędrejek Barbara Bakulin Irena Szewińska	43.48 SB
4th	Great Britain	Linda Barratt Denise Ramsden Helen Golden Andrea Lynch	43.94 SB
5	France	Nadine Goletto Catherine Delachanal Nicole Pani Sylviane Telliez	44.18 SB
6th	Hungary	Judith Szabo Ildikó Szabó Zsuzsa Karoly Iren Arva	44.51 SB
7th	Italy	Maura Gnecchi Adriana Carli Laura Nappi Cecilia Molinari	44.56 SB

Final: September 8th

4 × 400 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Brigitte Rohde Waltraud Dietsch Angelika Handt Ellen Streidt	3: 25.21 CR
2	Finland	Marika Eklund Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Pirjo Wilmi Riitta Salin	3: 25.7 NO
3	USSR	Inta Kļimoviča Ingrīda Barkāne Nadeschda Ilyina Natalja Sokolowa	3: 26.1 SB
4th	Poland	Genowefa Nowaczyk Krystyna Kacperczyk Danuta Pieczyk Irena Szewinska	3: 26.4 SB
5	BR Germany	Dagmar Jost Elke Barth Hildegard Falck Rita Wilden	3: 27.9 SB
6th	Great Britain	Donna Murray Verona Bernard Jannette Roscoe Ruth Kennedy	3: 29.6 SB
7th	Romania	Ibolya Slavic Alexandra Badescu Lacramioara Diaconiuc Mariana Suman	3: 30.8 SB
8th	Czechoslovakia	Eva Stefkova Jindriska Hermanska Eva Kovalcikova Jozefina Cerchlanová	3: 36.3 SB

Final: September 8th

high jump

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Rosemarie Witschas - later Rosemarie Ackermann - won with a championship record

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Rosemarie Witschas	GDR	1.95 WR
2	Milada Karbanová	TCH	1.91 NO
3	Sara Simeoni	ITA	1.89 NO
4th	Rita Kirst	GDR	1.89 PB
5	Milena Hübnerová	TCH	1.86 PB
6th	Galina Filatova	URS	1.86 SB
7th	Ulrike Meyfarth	FRG	1.83 SB
8th	Mária Mračnová	TCH	1.83 SB

Final: September 8th

Long jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ilona Bruzsenyák	HUN	6.65 NO
2	Eva Šuranová	TCH	6.60 SB
3	Pirkko Helenius	FIN	6.59 PB
4th	Angela Schmalfeld	GDR	6.56
5	Marianne Voelzke	GDR	6.56
6th	Lidija Alfeyeva	URS	6.54
7th	Tatyana Timokhova	URS	6.50
8th	Meta antennas	SUI	6.33 SB

Final: September 3rd

Shot put

→ Main article : 1974 European Athletics Championships / women's shot put

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Nadezhda Tschischowa	URS	20.78 CR
2	Marianne Adam	GDR	20.43
3	Helena Fibingerová	TCH	20.33
4th	Ivanka Christowa	BUL	19.17 SB
5	Ludwika Chewińska	POLE	18.98 SB
6th	Marita Lange	GDR	18.60 SB
7th	Elena Stoyanova	BUL	18.48 SB
8th	Svetlana Krachevskaya	URS	18.23 SB

Final: September 2nd

Discus throw

→ Main article : 1974 European Athletics Championships / women's discus throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Faina Melnik	URS	69.00 CR
2	Argentina Menis	ROME	64.62 SB
3	Gabriele Hinzmann	GDR	62.50 SB
4th	Maria Petkova	BUL	61.92
5	Karin Höldke	GDR	58.92 PB
6th	Olimpia Cataramă	ROME	58.30 PB
7th	Liesel Westermann	FRG	57.40 SB
8th	Wassilka Stoewa	BUL	57.12 SB

Final: September 6th

Ruth Fuchs - European champion with world record

Javelin throw

→ Main article : 1974 European Athletics Championships / women's javelin

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	67.22 WR
2	Jacqueline Todten	GDR	62.10 SB
3	Nataša Urbančič	YUG	61.66 PB
4th	Lyutvian Mollowa	BUL	60.80 PB
5	Sabine Kärgel	GDR	57.10 PB
6th	Felicija children	POLE	57.02 PB
7th	Tatiana Zhigalova	URS	56.64 PB
8th	Ameli Koloska	FRG	56.36 SB

Final: September 3rd

Pentathlon

→ Main article : 1974 European Athletics Championships / Women's Pentathlon

space	Athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 85 value.
1	Nadia Tkachenko	URS	4776 CR	4826
2	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	4678 SB	4698
3	Soy Spasovchodskaya	URS	4550 PB	4560
4th	Sigrun Thon	GDR	4548 SB	4547
5	Lyudmila Popovskaya	URS	4548 SB	4555
6th	Ilona Bruzsenyák	HUN	4339 SB	4407
7th	Margrit Olfert	GDR	4391 SB	4231
8th	Christel Voss	FRG	4384 PB	4364

Date: 3rd / 4th September

The scoring was based on the points table from 1971.

If the rating system valid today for the heptathlon had been applied, there would have been a different order for ranks seven to eleven:

• Christel Voss (eighth), Penka Sokolowa (ninth), Fočić Đurđa (tenth) and Ulrike Jacob (eleventh) have each moved up one place.
• Margrit Olfert would have dropped from seventh to eleventh place.

But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 24, 2017
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 24, 2017
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on June 24, 2017
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974 on sportschau.de, accessed on June 24, 2017
• The Debacle of Rome , Zeit Online, September 13, 1974 at zeit.de, accessed on June 24, 2017
• The Ralf Reichenbach case (1998) on dopingalarm.de, accessed on June 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report in the specialist journal Leichtathletik (BR Germany) from 1962, reprinted in Klaus Amrhein / Axel Schäfer: 60 years of European Athletics Championships 1998 Groß-Zimmer / Bochum, p. 298
2. ↑ European Athletics Association (Ed.): Statistics Manual. Munich 2002, published on the occasion of the European Championships 2002, p. 93