European Athletics Championships 1974/1500 m men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary) September 8th (final)
Medalist
gold	Klaus-Peter Justus ( GDR )
silver	Tom Birger Hansen ( DEN )
bronze	Thomas Wessinghage ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 1500-meter race at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6th and 8th, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

European champion was Klaus-Peter Justus from the GDR. Second place went to Tom Birger Hansen from Denmark. Bronze went to the German runner Thomas Wessinghage .

Existing records

World record	3: 32.2 min	Filbert Bayi	Christchurch , New Zealand	2nd July 1974
European record	3: 34.0 min	Jean Wadoux	Colombes , France	June 25, 1966
Championship record	3: 38.43 min	Francesco Arese	EM Helsinki , Finland	15th August 1971

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

Preliminary round

September 6, 1974, 5:00 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and also three fastest runners highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ulf Högberg	Sweden	3: 42.0
2	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3: 42.5
3	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	3: 42.6
4th	Klaus-Peter Justus	GDR	3: 42.8
5	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3: 43.7 SB
6th	Ivan Kováč	Hungary	3: 44.7
7th	John Hartnett	Ireland	3: 46.6
8th	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	3: 47.1 SB
9	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	3: 47.7 SB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Henryk Wasilewski	Poland	3: 43.0
2	Thomas Wessinghage	BR Germany	3: 43.1
3	Gunnar Ekman	Sweden	3: 43.2
4th	Gheorghe Ghipu	Romania	3: 43.4 SB
5	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	3: 44.4
6th	Pyotr Anisim	Soviet Union	3: 44.7 SB
7th	Frank Clement	Great Britain	3: 45.0 SB
8th	Lars-Martin Kaupang	Norway	3: 47.0 SB
DNF	Günther Hasler	Liechtenstein

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	BR Germany	3: 42.4
2	Volodymyr Pantelej	Soviet Union	3: 42.6
3	Marcel Philippe	France	3: 42.7
4th	Tom Birger Hansen	Denmark	3: 43.1
5	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3: 43.3
6th	Giulio Riga	Italy	3: 43.5
7th	Ray Smedley	Great Britain	3: 43.6 SB
8th	Daniel Jańczuk	Poland	3: 45.2 SB
9	Nicolae Onescu	Romania	3: 46.7 SB
10	John Charvetto	Gibraltar	3: 55.2 NO

final

September 8, 1974, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Klaus-Peter Justus	GDR	3: 40.55 SB
2	Tom Birger Hansen	Denmark	3: 40.75 SB
3	Thomas Wessinghage	BR Germany	3: 41.1 SB
4th	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3: 41.3 SB
5	Volodymyr Pantelej	Soviet Union	3: 41.4 SB
6th	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3: 41.5 SB
7th	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	BR Germany	3: 41.6 SB
8th	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	3: 41.8 SB
9	Ulf Högberg	Sweden	3: 42.3
10	Gunnar Ekman	Sweden	3: 42.5 SB
11	Henryk Wasilewski	Poland	3: 42.7 SB
12	Marcel Philippe	France	3: 46.0

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  Thomas Wessinghage won his first international medal with bronze - in 1982 he became European champion over 5000 meters

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  After rank eight at the European Championships in 1971 , Haico Scharn reached fourth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 8, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed July 8, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 8, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 421 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 8, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed July 9, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on July 9, 2019