European Athletics Championships 1974/200 m women

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 4th (preliminary) September 6th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Irena Szewińska ( POL )
silver	Renate Stecher ( GDR )
bronze	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen ( FIN )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The women's 200-meter run at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 4 and 6, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

The multiple Olympic and European champion on the sprint courses and in the long jump, Irena Szewińska from Poland, who had also won the 100-meter run three days earlier , became European champion. As in the 100 meter final, GDR sprinter Renate Stecher , double Olympic sprint champion from 1972 and double sprint European champion from 1971 , won the silver medal. Bronze went to Mona-Lisa Pursiainen from Finland.

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	22.1 s	Renate Stecher	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1973
European record
Championship record	22.7 s		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Irena Szewińska improved the existing EM record in the final on September 6th by two tenths of a second to 22.5 seconds.  

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	22.21 s	Irena Szewińska	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	June 13, 1974
European record
Championship record	22.70 s	Renate Stecher	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Irena Szewińska improved the existing EM record in the final on September 6th by 19 hundredths of a second to 22.51 s.  

Note on the stated best performances

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

Preliminary round

September 1, 1974, 5:35 p.m.

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: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	23.13 SB
2	Petra Kandarr	GDR	23.44 SB
3	Christiane Krause	BR Germany	23.51
4th	Barbara Bakulin	Poland	23.56 PB
5	Ildikó Szabó	Hungary	23.78 PB

Forward 2

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	23.35
2	Marina Sidorova	Soviet Union	23.55 SB
3	Annegret Kroniger	BR Germany	23.55
4th	Helen Golden	Great Britain	24.02
5	Laura Nappi	Italy	24.22 PB

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	23.45
2	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.87
3	Elvira Possekel	BR Germany	24.08 PB
4th	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	24.14
5	Sylviane Telliez	France	24.41 SB

Forward 4

Wind: −1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Doris Maletzki	GDR	23.77 SB
2	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	23.84 SB
3	Raisin Wallez	Belgium	24.00 PB
4th	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	24.22 PB
5	Emma Sulter	France	33.92 PB

Semifinals

September 6, 1974, 4:20 pm

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

Run 1

Wilma van Gool, later Wilma van den Berg, was eliminated like over 100 meters in the semifinals

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	22.51
2	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	22.68 SB
3	Christiane Krause	BR Germany	23.17
4th	Helen Golden	Great Britain	23.31 SB
5	Barbara Bakulin	Poland	23.38 SB
6th	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	23.38
7th	Doris Maletzki	GDR	23.78
8th	Elvira Possekel	BR Germany	23.99

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.01
2	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	23.35
3	Annegret Kroniger	BR Germany	23.49 SB
4th	Petra Kandarr	GDR	23.54
5	Ildikó Szabó	Hungary	23.81
6th	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	23.86
7th	Raisin Wallez	Belgium	24.07
8th	Marina Sidorova	Soviet Union	24.29

final

September 6, 1974, 7:00 p.m.

Wind: −2.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	22.51 CR
2	Renate Stecher	GDR	22.68 SB
3	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	23.17
4th	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	23.31 SB
5	Helen Golden	Great Britain	23.38 SB
6th	Annegret Kroniger	BR Germany	23.38
7th	Christiane Krause	BR Germany	23.78
8th	Petra Kandarr	GDR	24.29

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  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

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

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 19, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Women 200m on todor66.com, accessed July 19, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 19, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 425, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 19, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 19, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 19, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed July 19, 2019