European Athletics Championships 1974/1500 m women

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500-meter run for women
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	24 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary) September 8th (final)
Medalists
gold	Gunhild Hoffmeister ( GDR )
silver	Liljana Tomowa ( BUL )
bronze	Grete Andersen ( NOR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6 and 8, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

In the first two places there was the reverse order compared to the race over 800 meters . The European champion was the Olympic third over 800 meters / Olympic second over 1500 meters in 1972 and Vice European champion in 1971 over 1500 meters Gunhild Hoffmeister . Second place went to Bulgarian Liljana Tomowa . Bronze went to the Norwegian Grete Andersen .

Records

Existing records

World record	4: 01.38 min	Lyudmila Bragina	OS Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (today Germany )	September 9, 1972
European record
EM record	4: 09.62 min	Karin Burneleit	EM Helsinki , Finland	15th August 1971

Record improvement

European champion Gunhild Hoffmeister improved the existing championship record in the final on September 8th by 7.37 seconds to 4: 02.25 minutes.  

Preliminary round

September 6, 1974, 6:15 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. All athletes who reached the finals via the time rule were recruited from the second race.

Forward 1

Natalia Mărăşescu. six days earlier she was fourth over 3000 meters , missing the final by one place - four years later she became vice European champion over 1500 and 3000 meters

Sylvia Schenk (here at the general meeting of the DOSB 2015) dropped out in advance

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 11.7
2	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 12.1 SB
3	Tamara Pangelova	Soviet Union	4: 12.8
4th	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4: 14.1 SB
5	Rumiana Chavdarova	Bulgaria	4: 15.1 PB
6th	Czesława Surdel	Poland	4: 18.7 PB
7th	Whoever Sorum	Norway	4: 19.3 SB
8th	Loa Olafsson	Denmark	4: 28.0
9	Sylvia Schenk	BR Germany	4: 30.1

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tatiana Kasankina	Soviet Union	4: 11.4
2	Liljana Tomowa	Bulgaria	4: 11.5
3	Ellen Wellmann	BR Germany	4: 11.5 SB
4th	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	4: 11.5
5	Ulrike Klapezynski	GDR	4: 11.7
6th	Carmen Valero	Spain	4: 13.0
7th	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	4: 13.2 SB
8th	Nina Holmén	Finland	4: 14.6 SB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Grete Andersen	Norway	4: 11.5
2	Joyce Smith	Great Britain	4: 12.0 SB
3	Karin Burneleit	GDR	4: 13.2 SB
4th	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4: 14.7 SB
5	Mary Purcell	Ireland	4: 15.1 SB
6th	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 17.8 SB
7th	Silvana Cruciata	Italy	4: 22.6 SB

final

Grete Andresen, later Grete Waitz, won the bronze medal - later in her career she became a world-class marathon runner

September 8, 1974, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 02.25 CR / DR
2	Liljana Tomowa	Bulgaria	4: 04.97 NO
3	Grete Andersen	Norway	4: 05.21 NO
4th	Tatiana Kasankina	Soviet Union	4: 05.94 SB
5	Tamara Pangelova	Soviet Union	4: 09.93 SB
6th	Ulrike Klapezynski	GDR	4: 10.54 SB
7th	Carmen Valero	Spain	4: 11.61 NO
8th	Joyce Smith	Great Britain	4: 12.26
9	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 12.7
10	Ellen Wellmann	BR Germany	4: 16.3
11	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	4: 17.5
DNS	Karin Burneleit	GDR

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  Ulrike Klapezynski, later Ulrike Bruns, reached sixth place

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  Ellen Wellman (here in 2012) , later Ellen Wellmann, Tenth was - as Ellen Tittel she was 1971 EM -Third

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 21, 2019
• Women 1500m European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed July 21, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 21, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 1500m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 425f (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 21, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 1500 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 21, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 21, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed July 21, 2019