European Athletics Championships 1974/3000 m for women

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run for women
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	17 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd
Medalists
gold	Nina Holmén ( FIN )
silver	Lyudmila Bragina ( URS )
bronze	Joyce Smith ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The 3,000-meter run for women at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 2, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome . This discipline was on the program of a major international championship for the first time. So there was now a long distance in the women's competitions too . However, it took another ten years before a long distance was added to the Olympic program in 1984 with the 3,000-meter run.

The Finnish Nina Holmén became European champion . She won ahead of the Soviet world record holder Lyudmila Bragina . Bronze went to the Briton Joyce Smith .

Records

Existing records

World record	8: 52.74 min	Lyudmila Bragina	Durham , UK	July 6, 1974
European record
Championship record	held for the first time at European Championships

New championship record

The European champion Nina Holmén set her first EM record with 8: 55.10 minutes .  

execution

As usual for the men on the longest track, there was no preliminary round, all seventeen participants started in a joint final.

final

2nd September 1974

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nina Holmén	Finland	8: 55.10 CR / NR
2	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	8: 56.09
3	Joyce Smith	Great Britain	8: 57.39 PB
4th	Natalia Andrei	Romania	8: 58.95 NO
5	Paola Cacchi	Italy	9: 01.40 PB
6th	Bronislawa Ludichowska	Poland	9: 05.14 NO
7th	Ann Ford	Great Britain	9: 06.89 SB
8th	Tamara Pangelova	Soviet Union	9: 10.56 PB
9	Irina Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	9: 16.6 SB
10	Renata Pentlinowska	Poland	9: 22.8 PB
11	Eva Gustafsson	Sweden	9: 24.2 PB
12	Rumiana Chavdarova	Bulgaria	9: 31.0 PB
13	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	9: 31.2 PB
14th	Marijke Moser	Switzerland	9: 32.8 PB
15th	Carmen Valero	Spain	9: 35.4 SB
16	Urszula Prasek	Poland	9: 48.4 SB
DNF	Gudrun Hoday	BR Germany

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  Natalia Andrei, later Natalia Mărăşescu, took fourth place - four years later she became vice European champion over 1500 and 3000 meters

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  Urszula Prasek reached sixteenth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 22, 2019
• Women 3000m European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed July 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 3000m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 426 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 3000 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 22, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000 m Women , French / English, p. 75 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 22, 2019