European Athletics Championships 1974/100 m women

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	23 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (preliminary) September 3rd (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Irena Szewińska ( POL )
silver	Renate Stecher ( GDR )
bronze	Andrea Lynch ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The 100-meter run for women at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 2 and 3, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

The European champion was the multiple Olympic and European champion on the sprint courses and in the long jump, Irena Szewińska from Poland, who also won the 200-meter run three days later . Second place went to the sprint double Olympic champion from 1972 and sprint double European champion from 1971 Renate Stecher from the GDR. The British Andrea Lynch won the bronze medal.

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	10.8 s	Renate Stecher	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	20th July 1973
European record
EM record	11.4 s	Jutta Heine	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia - semi-finals	September 13, 1962
		Ewa Kłobukowska	EM Budapest , Hungary - preliminary	August 30, 1966
			EM Budapest , Hungary - semi-finals	August 31, 1966
		Renate Stecher	EM Helsinki , Finland - preliminary	August 10, 1971
			EM Helsinki , Finland - final	August 11, 1971

Record settings / improvements

The existing EM record was set once at these European championships and improved five times:

• Record setting:
  • 11.4 s - Irena Szewińska , 2nd advance on September 2nd 
• Record Improvements:
  • 11.3 s - Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 3rd advance on September 2nd
  • 11.3 s - Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 1st semifinals on September 3rd
  • 11.3 s - Annegret Richter , 1st semi-final on September 3rd 
  • 11.2 s - Irena Szewińska , 2nd semifinals on September 3rd 
  • 11.1 s - Irena Szewińska , final on September 3rd 

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	11.07 s	Renate Stecher	Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	2nd September 1972
European record
Championship record	11.35 s		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 11, 1971

Record improvements

The existing EM record was improved three times at these European championships:

• 11.31 s - Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 3rd advance on September 2nd
• 11.15 s - Irena Szewińska , 2nd semifinals on September 3rd 
• 11.14 s - Irena Szewińska , final on September 3rd 

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 held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest sprinters - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.54
2	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	11.76
3	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.81
4th	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.95
5	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.95 SB
6th	Brigitte Haest	Austria	12.03 SB

Forward 2

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.39
2	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.54
3	Bärbel Eckert	GDR	11.63
4th	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.75
5	Rita Bottiglieri	Italy	12.08 PB
6th	Judit Szabó	Hungary	12.70 PB

Forward 3

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	11.31 CR
2	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.56 SB
3	Helen Golden	Great Britain	11.67
4th	Zsuzsa Karoly	Hungary	12.22 SB
5	Sylviane Telliez	France	12.98 SB

Forward 4

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.39
2	Annegret Richter	BR Germany	11.41
3	Christina Heinich	GDR	11.58
4th	Tatiana Chernikova	Soviet Union	11.79
5	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	11.92
6th	Laura Nappi	Italy	12.01 PB

Semifinals

September 3, 1974, 4:20 pm

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

Wilma van Gool, later Wilma van den Berg, was eliminated in the EM semi-finals in 1971

Linda Haglund (here in 2013) did not reach the finals in eighth of her semifinals - in 1978 she became vice European champion

Run 1

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	11.34
2	Annegret Richter	BR Germany	11.34 SB
3	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.38
4th	Christina Heinich	GDR	11.48 PB
5	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	11.53 SB
6th	Helen Golden	Great Britain	11.59
7th	Tatiana Chernikova	Soviet Union	11.75 PB
8th	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	11.90 PB

Run 2

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.15 CR / NO
2	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.35 SB
3	Bärbel Eckert	GDR	11.43 SB
4th	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.46
5	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.49 SB
6th	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.65
7th	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.70 SB
8th	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.72

final

Irena Szewińska (here in 2007) , two-time Olympic and three-time European champion, won the 100 and 200-meter runs here - in 1976 she won Olympic gold over 400 meters

September 3, 1974, 5:40 p.m.

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.13 CR / NO
2	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.23 SB
3	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	11.28 SB
4th	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.36
5	Annegret Richter	BR Germany	11.36
6th	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	11.42
7th	Bärbel Eckert	GDR	11.46
8th	Christina Heinich	GDR	11.63

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  Renate Stecher, sprint double Olympic champion from 1972 and sprint double European champion from 1971 became vice European champion, on the final day the winner of the GDR sprint relay

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  Bärbel Eckert, later Bärbel Wöckel, finished seventh and became European champion in the sprint relay with the GDR team - in 1976 she won Olympic gold over 200 meters, in 1982 she won two more EM gold and one silver

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 18, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Women 100m on todor66.com, accessed July 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 425, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 18, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed July 18, 2019