European Athletics Championships 1974/100 m hurdles for women

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter hurdles for women
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	17 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary / semi-finals) September 7th (final)
Medalists
gold	Annelie Ehrhardt ( GDR )
silver	Annerose Fiedler ( GDR )
bronze	Teresa Nowak ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6 and 7, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

In this competition there was a double victory for the GDR. European champion was the 1972 Olympic champion , vice-European champion in 1971 and world record holder Annelie Ehrhardt . Second place went to Annerose Fiedler . Bronze went to Teresa Nowak from Poland.

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	12.3 s	Annelie Ehrhardt	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	July 22, 1973
European record
EM record	12.9 s	Karin Balzer	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Annelie Ehrhardt improved the existing EM record in the final on September 7th by two tenths of a second to 12.7 seconds.  

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	12.59 s	Annelie Ehrhardt	EM Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (today Germany )	20th September 1969
European record
EM record	12.94 s	Karin Balzer	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Annelie Ehrhardt improved the existing EM record in the final on September 7th by 28 hundredths of a second to 12.66 seconds.  

Note on the stated best performances

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

Preliminary round

September 6, 1974, 9:30 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest hurdlers - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals. Only one participant dropped out. The question arises why additional semifinals were even scheduled for only seventeen female athletes.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	13.32
2	Judy Vernon	Great Britain	13.74
3	Marlies Koschinski	BR Germany	13.84 PB
4th	Margit Hansen	Denmark	14.12
5	Bożena Nowakowska	Poland	14.23
6th	Antonella Battaglia	Italy	14.36 PB

Forward 2

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Annerose Fiedler	GDR	13.48
2	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.54
3	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.71
4th	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.83
5	Lorna Drysdale	Great Britain	13.97

Forward 3

Wind: -1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.20
2	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union	13.52
3	Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.65
4th	Gudrun Berend	GDR	13.66
5	Chantal Rega	France	13.72 SB
6th	Blondelle Thompson	Great Britain	13.76

Semifinals

September 6, 1974, 4:40 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: -1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	13.03
2	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.26
3	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union	13.34
4th	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.48 SB
5	Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria	13.60 SB
6th	Lorna Drysdale	Great Britain	13.68 PB
7th	Chantal Rega	France	13.78
8th	Bożena Nowakowska	Poland	13.95 SB

Run 2

Wind: -1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.18
2	Annerose Fiedler	GDR	13.28
3	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.35
4th	Gudrun Berend	GDR	13.51
5	Judy Vernon	Great Britain	13.65 SB
6th	Blondelle Thompson	Great Britain	13.72 PB
7th	Marlies Koschinski	BR Germany	13.90
8th	Margit Hansen	Denmark	14.11 SB

final

The winner Annelie Ehrhardt, formerly Annelie Jahns, was now the simultaneous holder of the titles of European and Olympic champion and also held the world record

September 7, 1974, 4:30 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	12.66 CR
2	Annerose Fiedler	GDR	12.89 PB
3	Teresa Nowak	Poland	12.91 PB
4th	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.04 SB
5	Gudrun Berend	GDR	13.14 SB
6th	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.16 SB
7th	Natalia Lebedeva	Soviet Union	13.19 SB
8th	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	13.53

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  Annerose Fiedler, formerly Annerose Krumpholz, became vice European champion

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  Grażyna Rabsztyn (here in 2012) took eighth place - later she set the world record

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 22, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Women 100m Hurdles on todor66.com, accessed on July 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100 m Hurdles European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 426, Spanish / English (PDF; 13363 kB) on european-athletics.org, accessed on July 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 100 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 22, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women , accessed on July 22, 2019