European Athletics Championships 1974 / men's high jump

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	30 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 3 (qualification) September 3 (final)
Medalist
gold	Jesper Tørring ( DEN )
silver	Kęstutis Šapka ( URS )
bronze	Vladimír Malý ( TCH )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's high jump at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 3 and 4, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

European champion was the Dane Jesper Tørring , who in the past mainly appeared as a long jumper . Second place went to the Soviet defending champion Kęstutis Šapka . Bronze went to the Czechoslovakian Vladimír Malý .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.30 m	Dwight Stones	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 11, 1973
European record	2.28 m	Valery Brumel	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 21, 1963
EM record	2.21 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

Record improvement

European champion Jesper Tørring and vice-European champion Kęstutis Šapka improved the existing EM record by four centimeters to 2.25 m.   

qualification

September 3, 1974, 9:00 a.m.

Thirty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.14 m. Fourteen athletes reached this mark (highlighted in light blue). They contested the final the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Dimitrios Patronis	Greece	2.14 SB
	Giordano Ferrari	Italy	2.14 SB
	Kęstutis Šapka	Soviet Union	2.14
	Vladimir Abramov	Soviet Union	2.14
	Asko pesons	Finland	2.14 SBe
	Jacek Wszoła	Poland	2.14
	Leif Roar Falkum	Norway	2.14
	Bruno Brokken	Belgium	2.14 SB
	Robert Sainte-Rose	France	2.14 SB
	Guy Moreau	Belgium	2.14 SB
	Istvan Major	Hungary	2.14
	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	2.14
	Rodolfo Bergamo	Italy	2.14
	Vladimír Malý	Czechoslovakia	2.14
15th	Endre Kelemen	Hungary	2.11 SB
	Roman Moravec	Czechoslovakia	2.11 SB
	Walter Boller	BR Germany	2.11 SB
	Ingemar Nyman	Sweden	2.11
	Vasilios Papadimitriou	Greece	2.11 SB
	Franck Bonnet	France	2.11 SB
	Peter Szorad	Hungary	2.11 PB
	Stanislav Molotilov	Soviet Union	2.11 SB
	Paul De Preter	Belgium	2.11 PB
	Gustavo Marqueta	Spain	2.11 PB
25th	Enzo Del Forno	Italy	2.08 SB
	Almén rune	Sweden	2.08
	Marti Perarnau	Spain	2.08 SB
	Paul Poaniewa	France	2.08 SB
29	Danial Temim	Yugoslavia	2.05 SB
	Janusz Wrzosek	Poland	2.05 PB

final

Fifth place for 17-year-old Jacek Wszoła (here in 2007) - he won Olympic gold in 1976 and Olympic silver in 1980

4th September 1974

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	2.25 CR / NR
2	Kęstutis Šapka	Soviet Union	2.25 CR
3	Vladimír Malý	Czechoslovakia	2.19
4th	Istvan Major	Hungary	2.19 SB
5	Jacek Wszoła	Poland	2.19 SB
6th	Leif Roar Falkum	Norway	2.16 PB
7th	Rodolfo Bergamo	Italy	2.16 PB
8th	Bruno Brokken	Belgium	2.13
9	Dimitrios Patronis	Greece	2.10
10	Asko pesons	Finland	2.10
	Giordano Ferrari	Italy	2.10
12	Vladimir Abramov	Soviet Union	2.10
13	Robert Sainte-Rose	France	2.10
14th	Guy Moreau	Belgium	2.00

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 12, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men High Jump, on todor66.com, accessed July 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 422 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 12, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed July 12, 2019.
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, High Jump Men , p. 21 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 12, 2019 (Spanish / English).