European Athletics Championships 1974/100 m men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (preliminary) September 3rd (semifinals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Valery Borsov ( URS )
silver	Pietro Mennea ( ITA )
bronze	Klaus-Dieter Bieler ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 100-meter run 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 Soviet double Olympic sprint winner from 1972 Valery Borsov , who won his third European Championship title over 100 meters and his fourth European Championship title here. The second place went to the Italian third place in the Olympics over 200 meters from 1972 Pietro Mennea . Bronze went to Klaus-Dieter Bieler from the Federal Republic of Germany.

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	9.9 s	Jim Hines	Sacramento , USA	June 20, 1968
		Ronnie Ray Smith
		Charles Greene
		Jim Hines	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
		Eddie Hart	Eugene , USA	July 1, 1972
		Rey Robinson
		Steve Williams	Los Angeles , USA	June 21, 1974
European record	10.0 s	Armin Hary	Zurich , Switzerland	June 21, 1960
		Roger Bambuck	Sacramento , USA (preliminary)	June 20, 1968
			Sacramento , USA (semi-finals)
		Vladislav Sapeja	Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia )	20th July 1968
			Leninakan (now Gyumri ), Soviet Union (now Armenia )	15th August 1968
		Valery Borsov	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	18th August 1969
		Gert Metz	Gretesch Castle , FR Germany (now Germany )	June 16, 1970
		Manfred Kokot	Erfurt , GDR (now Germany )	May 15, 1971
		Valery Borsov	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	June 21, 1971
		Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Bratislava , Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia )	3rd June 1972
		Valery Borsov	Milan , Italy	June 16, 1972
		Pietro Mennea
		Valery Borsov	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 18, 1972
		Raimo Vilén	Vuosaari , Finland	July 27, 1972
		Alexandr Korneljuk	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 10, 1973
		Michael Droese	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	July 11, 1973
		Hans-Jürgen Bombach	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	20th July 1973
		Siegfried Schenke	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	29th August 1973
		Manfred Ommer	Leverkusen , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 22, 1974
EM record	10.3 s	Marian Foik	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 12, 1962
		Peter Gamper
		Alfred Hebauf
		Gerhard Wucherer	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 11, 1971
		Valery Borsov

Record settings

There was no improvement to the existing EM record of 10.3 seconds at these European Championships . But the record was set four times:

•  Dominique Chauvelot - 2nd semi-final on September 3rd
•  Pietro Mennea - 2nd semi-final on September 3rd
•  Valery Borsov - Final on September 3rd
•  Pietro Mennea - Final on September 3rd

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	9.95 s	Jim Hines	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
European record	10.07 s	Valery Borsov	Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	August 31, 1972
EM record	10.27 s		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 11, 1971

Record settings / improvements

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

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 semifinals.

Forward 1

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.49
2	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.56
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.64
4th	Michael Droese	GDR	10.65
5	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.67
6th	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.80 SB
7th	Let Malin	Finland	10.85 SB

Forward 2

Wind: −2.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.46
2	Klaus Ehl	BR Germany	10.54
3	Alexandr Korneljuk	Soviet Union	10.63
4th	Andrzej Świerczyński	Poland	10.73 SB
5	Hans-Joachim Zenk	GDR	10.82 SB
6th	Endre Lepold	Hungary	10.97 SB

Forward 3

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.53
2	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	BR Germany	10.54
3	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.57
4th	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.62
5	Javier Martínez	Spain	10.82 SB
6th	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.86 SB
7th	László Korona	Hungary	10.95 SB

Forward 4

Marian Voronin retired in sixth place in his race in the preliminary stages

Wind: −1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.58
2	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.59
3	Manfred Ommer	BR Germany	10.59
4th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	10.70
5	Lajos Gresa	Hungary	10.74 SB
6th	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.77 SB
7th	Rolf Trulsson	Sweden	10.78 SB
8th	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.92 SB

Semifinals

Lambert Micha reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in seventh place in his race

Vasilis Papageorgopoulos (here in 2013) , co-owner of the European record, missed the final by a wafer

September 3, 1974, 4:00 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.39
2	Manfred Ommer	BR Germany	10.42
3	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.42
4th	Alexandr Korneljuk	Soviet Union	10.45
5	Klaus Ehl	BR Germany	10.50 SB
6th	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.52 SB
7th	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.55 SB
8th	Michael Droese	GDR	10.59 SB

Run 2

Wind: +1.5 m / s

The two runners on ranks one and two set the hand-stopped and the electronically recorded European championship record of 10.3 seconds, rounded to tenths of a second.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.28 PB
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.29 SB
3	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.36
4th	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	BR Germany	10.44
5	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.44 SB
6th	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.46 SB
7th	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.61 SB
8th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	10.69 SB

final

September 3, 1974, 5:30 p.m.

Wind: −1.0 m / s

The two runners on ranks one and two set the hand-stopped and the electronically recorded European championship record of 10.3 seconds, rounded to tenths of a second.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.27 SB
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.34
3	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	BR Germany	10.35 SB
4th	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.35 SB
5	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.35
6th	Manfred Ommer	BR Germany	10.36
7th	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.39 SB
8th	Alexandr Korneljuk	Soviet Union	10.43 SB

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  For the third time in a row Valery Borsov became European champion (in the photo in 2012) - at the 1972 Olympic Games he had won both short sprint courses

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  Vice European Champion Pietro Mennea (here in 2016) , in 1972 he had won the Olympic bronze over 200 meters , his greatest successes - including the 200-meter Olympic champion in 1980 , 200-meter world record holder and three European championship titles - were still ahead of him

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 7, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men 100m on todor66.com, accessed July 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 420, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 7, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100 m men , accessed July 7, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , p. 6 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 17, 2019 (Spanish / English)