European Athletics Championships 1974/200 m men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 4th (preliminary) September 5th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Pietro Mennea ( ITA )
silver	Manfred Ommer ( FRG )
bronze	Hans-Jürgen Bombach ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 200-meter run at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 4 and 5, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

The European champion was the Italian Olympic third in the 200 meters from 1972 Pietro Mennea , who had already won silver over 100 meters here. He won in front of two German sprinters . Second place went to Manfred Ommer from Germany. Bronze went to Hans-Jürgen Bombach from the GDR.

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	19.8 s	Tommie Smith	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 16, 1968
		Donald Quarrie	Cali , Colombia	3rd August 1971
European record	20.0 s	Valery Borsov	Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	4th September 1972
Championship record	20.3 s		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record setting / improvement

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

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	19.83 s	Tommie Smith	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 16, 1968
European record	20.00 s	Valery Borsov	Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	4th September 1972
Championship record	20.31 s		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record setting / improvement

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

4th September 1974

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the fastest sprinter - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bruno Cherrier	France	20.96
2	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.11 SB
3	Raymond Heerenveen	Netherlands	21.24 SB
4th	Chris Monk	Great Britain	21.25 SB
5	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	21.36 SB
6th	Robert Temple	BR Germany	21.51 PB
7th	Marek Bedyński	Poland	21.53 PB

Forward 2

Marian Voronin (here in 2012) failed like over 100 meters in the run

Wind: −2.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	21.04
2	Joseph Arame	France	21.09
3	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.13 SB
4th	Marian Voronin	Poland	21.60 SB

Forward 3

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Ommer	BR Germany	21.21
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.24
3	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.41 SB
4th	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.49 SB
5	Tibor Farkas	Hungary	22.06 SB

Forward 4

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hans-Joachim Zenk	GDR	21.30
2	Philippe Leroux	France	21.40
3	Steve Green	Great Britain	21.54
4th	Luis Sarria	Spain	21.54
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.67 SB
6th	Marian Kralik	Czechoslovakia	21.67 SB

Forward 5

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	BR Germany	21.03
2	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.34
3	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	21.48
4th	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	21.54
5	Miguel Arnau	Spain	21.72 SB
6th	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	22.38 SB

Semifinals

September 6, 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: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	20.81
2	Manfred Ommer	BR Germany	20.92
3	Bruno Cherrier	France	20.94
4th	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	20.97 SB
5	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.11 SBe
6th	Philippe Leroux	France	21.22
7th	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.26 SB
8th	Chris Monk	Great Britain	21.32

Raymond Heerenveen (left) missed the final by one place

After finishing third over 100 meters three days earlier and Olympic bronze in 1972 over 200 meters , Pietro Mennea became European champion (here in 2016) , his greatest successes - including 200-meter Olympic champion in 1980 , 200-meter world record holder and three European championship titles - he still had ahead of him

Run 2

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.83
2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	BR Germany	21.09
3	Joseph Arame	France	21.16
4th	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.23
5	Raymond Heerenveen	Netherlands	21.44
6th	Hans-Joachim Zenk	GDR	21.46
7th	Steve Green	Great Britain	21.52 PB
8th	Peter Muster	Switzerland	77.71

final

September 6, 1974, 6:45 p.m.

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.60 SB
2	Manfred Ommer	BR Germany	20.76 SB
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	20.83
4th	Joseph Arame	France	20.83 SB
5	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	BR Germany	20.93 SB
6th	Bruno Cherrier	France	21.02
7th	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.29
DNS	Antti Rajamäki	Finland

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 8, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men 200m 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 200m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 420, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 200 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. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 200 m men , accessed July 8, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , p. 8, French / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 8, 2019