1974 European Athletics Championships / Men's Shot Put

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 4th (qualification) September 6th (final)
Medalist
gold	Hartmut Briesenick ( GDR )
silver	Ralf Reichenbach ( FRG )
bronze	Geoff Capes ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The shot put men at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was on 4 and 6 September 1974 in the Olympic Stadium of Rome held.

The defending champion and Olympic bronze medalist from 1972 Hartmut Briesenick from the GDR was European champion . Second place went to the German shot putter Ralf Reichenbach . Bronze went to the Briton Geoff Capes .

Existing records

World record	21.82 m	Al Feuerbach	San Jose , USA	May 5th 1973
European record	21.70 m	Alexander Baryshnikov	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	August 25, 1974
EM record	21.08 m	Hartmut Briesenick	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

4th September 1974

Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.00 m. Thirteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and contested the final two days later.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	20.00
2	Ralf Reichenbach	BR Germany	19.61
3	Udo Beyer	GDR	19.57
4th	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	19.48
5	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	19.37
6th	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	19.37
7th	Ole Lindskjøld	Denmark	19.30
8th	Waltscho Stoew	Bulgaria	19.29
9	Mike Winch	Great Britain	19.29
10	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	19.21
11	Valery Woikin	Soviet Union	19.16
12	Alexander Baryshnikov	Soviet Union	19.10
13	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	19.09
14th	Nikolai Kristov	Bulgaria	18.59 SB
15th	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	18.56 SB
16	Hreinn Halldórsson	Iceland	18.28 SB
17th	Angelo Groppelli	Italy	18.06 SB
18th	Hans Höglund	Sweden	17.99
19th	Josef Forst	BR Germany	17.74
20th	Mieczysław Bręczewski	Poland	17.49 SB

final

The defending champion and Olympic third party from 1972 Hartmut Briesenick was again European champion

September 6, 1974

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	20.50 SB
2	Ralf Reichenbach	BR Germany	20.38 SB
3	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	20.21
4th	Alexander Baryshnikov	Soviet Union	20.13
5	Valery Woikin	Soviet Union	20.07 SB
6th	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	19.82
7th	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	19.73 SB
8th	Udo Beyer	GDR	19.63
9	Waltscho Stoew	Bulgaria	19.62
10	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	19.45 SB
11	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	19.22
12	Mike Winch	Great Britain	18.89
13	Ole Lindskjøld	Denmark	18.84

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  Geoff Capes, who failed in the EM qualification in 1971 , won the bronze medal

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  The Olympic champion from 1972 and European Championship third from 1971 Władysław Komar had to be content with sixth place

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  Udo Beyer, at the beginning of a very successful career, finished eighth - in the years after, he was, among others, Olympic champion in 1976 , European Champion 1978 / 1982 and world record holder

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 14, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed July 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 14, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 423 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on July 14, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed July 14, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on July 14, 2019