European Athletics Championships 1974/110 m hurdles of men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary) September 7th (semi-finals) September 8th (final)
Medalist
gold	Guy Drut ( FRA )
silver	Mirosław Wodzyński ( POL )
bronze	Leszek Wodzyński ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1974 European Athletics Championships took place from September 6th to 8th, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

In this competition, silver and bronze medals were awarded to two brothers from Poland. The French Olympic runner-up in 1972, Guy Drut , became European champion . He won ahead of Mirosław Wodzyński . Bronze went to Leszek Wodzyński .

Records

Preliminary remark:
In these years there was a dichotomy in terms of best performances and records. Hand-stopped and electronically determined services were performed side by side. The official times were usually given in tenths of a second, which were rounded if electronic measurements were available. However, the record given in tenths of a second became less and less important. From 1977 the juxtaposition of the best times came to an end, from then on only the electronically measured value given in hundredths of a second was listed as a record.

Official records - given in tenths of a second

Existing records

World record	13.1 s	Rod Milburn	Zurich , Switzerland	July 6, 1973
			Siena , Italy	July 22, 1973
European record	13.2 s	Martin Lauer	Zurich , Switzerland	July 7, 1959
		Guy Drut	Paris , France	3rd June 1974
			Fontainebleau , France	June 8, 1974
EM record	13.5 s	Eddy Ottoz	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Guy Drut improved the existing championship record in the final on September 8th by a tenth of a second to 13.4 seconds.  

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	13.24 s	Rod Milburn	Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	7th September 1972
European record	13.34 s	Guy Drut
EM record	13.59 s	Eddy Ottoz	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Guy Drut improved the existing championship record in the final on September 8th by 19 hundredths of a second to 13.40 s.  

Note on the stated best performances

The best performances named in the tables refer to electronically measured times.

Preliminary round

September 6, 1974, 5:35 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest hurdlers - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Guy Drut	France	13.82
2	Frank Siebeck	GDR	13.93 SB
3	Przemysław Siciński	Poland	13.99 SB
4th	Ervin Sebestyen	Romania	14.14 SB
5	Vlastimil Hoferek	Czechoslovakia	14.25
6th	Berwyn Price	Great Britain	14.28
7th	Sergio Catasta	Italy	14.40 PB
8th	Gerardo Calleja	Spain	14.54 PB

Forward 2

Wind: +2.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Viktor Myasnikov	Soviet Union	14.08
2	Leszek Wodzyński	Poland	14.13
3	Klaus Fiedler	GDR	14.19
4th	Manfred Schumann	BR Germany	14.31
5	Lubomír Nádeníček	Czechoslovakia	14.34
6th	Sergio Liani	Italy	14.43
7th	Juan Lloveras	Spain	14.60
8th	Yves Kirpach	Luxembourg	14.63

Forward 3

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mirosław Wodzyński	Poland	13.84
2	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.92
3	Eduard Pereversev	Soviet Union	13.96 SB
4th	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.98
5	Petr Čech	Czechoslovakia	14.06 SB
6th	Efstratios Vasiliou	Greece	14.37 SB
7th	Krister Clerselius	Sweden	14.98

Semifinals

September 7, 1974, 5:20 pm

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Vlastimil Hoferek was eliminated in the semi-finals

As the seventh of his semifinal run, Manfred Schumann (here in 2012) did not reach the final like in 1971 - later he was also successful as a bobsledder

Wind: +2.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mirosław Wodzyński	Poland	13.59
2	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.64
3	Berwyn Price	Great Britain	13.78
4th	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.83
5	Ervin Sebestyen	Romania	13.91
6th	Petr Čech	Czechoslovakia	14.07
7th	Viktor Myasnikov	Soviet Union	14.19
8th	Lubomír Nádeníček	Czechoslovakia	14.38

Run 2

Wind: +2.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Guy Drut	France	13.46
2	Frank Siebeck	GDR	13.46
3	Leszek Wodzyński	Poland	13.61
4th	Klaus Fiedler	GDR	13.64
5	Przemysław Siciński	Poland	13.77
6th	Vlastimil Hoferek	Czechoslovakia	13.89
7th	Manfred Schumann	BR Germany	14.04
8th	Eduard Pereversev	Soviet Union	14.21

Thomas Munkelt missed bronze by a hundredth of a second
- he was European champion in 1978 and 1982 , and in 1980 he won Olympic gold

final

September 8, 1974, 4:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Guy Drut	France	13.40 CR
2	Mirosław Wodzyński	Poland	13.67
3	Leszek Wodzyński	Poland	13.71
4th	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.72
5	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.85
6th	Klaus Fiedler	GDR	13.96
7th	Berwyn Price	Great Britain	14.05
8th	Frank Siebeck	GDR	14.79

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 10, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men 110m Hurdles on todor66.com, accessed July 10, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 10, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 420, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 10, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed July 10, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 110 m Hurdles Men , p. 16 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on July 10, 2019