European Athletics Championships 1974/3000 m obstacle men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course for men
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 4th (preliminary) September 7th (final)
Medalist
gold	Bronisław Malinowski ( POL )
silver	Anders Gärderud ( SWE )
bronze	Michael Karst ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 4 and 7, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

The 1972 Polish Olympic gold medalist Bronisław Malinowski , who had finished fourth over 10,000 meters five days earlier , became European champion . He won ahead of the Swedish European record holder Anders Gärderud . Bronze went to the German runner Michael Karst .

Records

Existing records

World record	8: 14.0 min	Benjamin Jipcho	Helsinki , Finland	June 27, 1973
European record	8: 14.2 min	Gärderud is different	Helsinki , Finland	1st August 1974
EM record	8: 25.02 min	Mikhail Shelev	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

Record improvements / settings

The existing EM record was improved three times at these European championships. Based on the times officially rounded to tenths of a second, there is also one setting of the championship record:

• 8: 23.60 min (official: 8: 23.6 min) - Bronisław Malinowski , 1st place in the 2nd preliminary on September 4th
• 8: 23.6 min (official: 8: 23.6 min) - Tapio Kantanen , 2nd place in the 2nd preliminary on September 4th 
• 8: 23.62 min (official: 8: 23.6 min) - Anders Gärderud , 3rd run on September 4th (record equalized) 
• 8: 15.04 min (official: 8: 15.0 min) - Bronisław Malinowski , final on September 7th

Preliminary round

4th September 1974

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The athletes who had qualified over time were all recruited from the third run.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Franco Fava	Italy	8: 25.97
2	Michael Karst	BR Germany	8: 26.4
3	Dan Glans	Sweden	8: 28.0 SB
4th	Paul Thys	Belgium	8: 34.2 SB
5	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8: 45.0 SB
6th	John Bicourt	Great Britain	8: 52.8 SB
7th	Arne Risa	Norway	8: 58.8
DNF	Karl-Åge Søltoft	Denmark

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Bronislaw Malinowski	Poland	8: 23.60 CR
2	Tapio cantans	Finland	8: 23.6 CR
3	František Bartoš	Czechoslovakia	8: 32.0 SB
4th	John Davies	Great Britain	8: 36.0
5	Sverre Sørnes	Norway	8: 44.2 SBe
6th	Herbert Leyens	Belgium	8: 45.4
7th	Patrick Martin	France	8: 46.8
8th	Eddy Leddy	Ireland	9: 04.6

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gärderud is different	Sweden	8: 23.62 CRe
2	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8: 25.8 NO
3	Hanspeter Wehrli	Switzerland	8: 26.0 NO
4th	Gerd Frähmcke	BR Germany	8: 26.8
5	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8: 28.0 SB
6th	Gérard Buchheit	France	8: 31.0
7th	José Antonio Campos	Spain	8: 38.2 SB
8th	David Camp	Great Britain	8: 44.4

Comment on the evaluation of the winning time in the third preliminary run as a set championship record:
The official times were rounded to tenths of a second. Thus Bronisław Malinowski was at his EM -record in the second flow with 8: 23.60 min namely two hundredths of a second faster than Anders Gärderud at winning the third flow. But the official time after rounding to tenths of a second was 8: 23.6 min for both runners, as was Tapio Kantanen, who was second in the second preliminary run. Gärderud equaled Malinowski's and Kantanen's records. In the final, Malinowski managed to get clear again with 8: 15.04 min - rounded 8: 15.0 min.

final

European champion Bronisław Malinowski - five days earlier fourth over 10,000 meters , 1976 Olympic second on the obstacle course and European champion again in 1978

September 7, 1974, 5:20 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Bronislaw Malinowski	Poland	8: 15.04 CR / NO
2	Gärderud is different	Sweden	8: 15.41
3	Michael Karst	BR Germany	8: 17.91 DR
4th	Franco Fava	Italy	8: 18.85 NO
5	Hanspeter Wehrli	Switzerland	8: 26.13
6th	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8: 26.19
7th	Gerd Frähmcke	BR Germany	8: 26.53 SB
8th	Gérard Buchheit	France	8: 30.2 SB
9	Dan Glans	Sweden	8: 31.4
10	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8: 34.4
11	Tapio cantans	Finland	8: 43.2
12	František Bartoš	Czechoslovakia	8: 49.6

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 11, 2019
• Men 3000m Steeplechase European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed July 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 3000m Steeplechase European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 421f (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 3000 m obstacle men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 11, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 3000 m obstacle men , accessed on July 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000m Steeplechase Men , Spanish / English, p. 19 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 11, 2019