European Athletics Championships 1974/400 m men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter run
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (preliminary) September 3rd (semi-finals) September 4th (final)
Medalist
gold	Karl Honz ( FRG )
silver	David Jenkins ( GBR )
bronze	Bernd Herrmann ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 400-meter run at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held from September 2 to 4, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

The German runners won two medals in this competition: gold and bronze. European record holder Karl Honz became European champion . He won ahead of the British defending champion David Jenkins . Bronze went to Bernd Herrmann .

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	43.8 s	Lee Evans	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record	44.7 s	Karl Honz	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 21, 1972
Championship record	45.5 s	David Jenkins	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Karl Honz improved the existing EM record in the final on September 4th by five tenths of a second to 45.0 seconds.  

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	43.86 s	Lee Evans	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record	44.70 s	Karl Honz	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 21, 1972
Championship record	45.45 s	David Jenkins	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Karl Honz improved the existing EM record in the final on September 4th by 41 hundredths of a second to 45.04 seconds.  

Note on the stated best performances

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

Preliminary round

2nd September 1974

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske	BR Germany	45.92 SB
2	Alfons Brydenbach	Belgium	46.00 SB
3	Francis Demarthon	France	46.11 SB
4th	Andreas washer	GDR	46.38
5	Per-Olof Sjöberg	Sweden	46.63
6th	Roger Jenkins	Great Britain	46.78 SB
7th	Roman Siedlecki	Poland	47.35 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bernd Herrmann	BR Germany	46.30
2	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	46.38
3	Jürgen Utikal	GDR	46.44 SB
4th	Toine van den Goolberg	Netherlands	46.46 PB
5	Milorad Čikić	Yugoslavia	46.68 PB
6th	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	47.01
7th	Stephen Marlow	Great Britain	48.71 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	46.50
2	David Jenkins	Great Britain	46.60
3	Erik Carlgren	Sweden	46.97
4th	Karl Honz	BR Germany	46.98
5	Josip Alebić	Yugoslavia	47.41 SB
6th	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	47.80 PB

Semifinals

September 3, 1974, 6:10 p.m.

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karl Honz	BR Germany	46.24
2	Francis Demarthon	France	46.28
3	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	46.29
4th	Erik Carlgren	Sweden	46.51
5	Jürgen Utikal	GDR	46.62
6th	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske	BR Germany	46.64
7th	Per-Olof Sjöberg	Sweden	46.68
8th	Roger Jenkins	Great Britain	47.30

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Jenkins	Great Britain	45.93
2	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	46.36
3	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	46.39
4th	Bernd Herrmann	BR Germany	46.40
5	Alfons Brydenbach	Belgium	46.43
6th	Milorad Čikić	Yugoslavia	47.04
7th	Andreas washer	GDR	47.24
8th	Toine van den Goolberg	Netherlands	47.40

final

4th September 1974

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karl Honz	BR Germany	45.04 CR
2	David Jenkins	Great Britain	45.67
3	Bernd Herrmann	BR Germany	45.78
4th	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	45.87 SB
5	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	45.87 PB
6th	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	46.12 PB
7th	Erik Carlgren	Sweden	46.15 SB
8th	Francis Demarthon	France	46.19

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 8, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men 400m on todor66.com, accessed July 8, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 8, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 400m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 420, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 400 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 8, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed July 8, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Men , p. 10 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on July 8, 2019