European Athletics Championships 1974/400 m hurdles for men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 m hurdles for men
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (preliminary) September 3rd (semi-finals) September 4th (final)
Medalist
gold	Alan Pascoe ( GBR )
silver	Jean-Claude Nallet ( FRA )
bronze	Yevgeny Gavrilenko ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the 1974 European Athletics Championships took place from September 2 to 4, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

European champion was the British EM runner-up in 1971 over the 110 meter hurdles Alan Pascoe . He won ahead of the French defending champion Jean-Claude Nallet . Bronze went to the Soviet runner Yevgeny Gavrilenko .

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	47.8 s	John Akii-Bua	Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	2nd September 1972
European record	48.1 s	David Hemery	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	15th October 1968
Championship record	49.2 s	Salvatore Morale	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 14, 1962
		Jean-Claude Nallet	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Alan Pascoe improved the existing EM record in the final on September 4th by four tenths of a second to 48.8 seconds.  

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	47.82 s	John Akii-Bua	Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	2nd September 1972
European record	48.12 s	David Hemery	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	15th October 1968
Championship record	49.15 s	Jean-Claude Nallet	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Alan Pascoe improved the existing EM record in the final on September 4th by 33 hundredths of a second to 48.82 s.  

Note on the stated best performances

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

Preliminary round

2nd September 1974

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Miroslav Kodejš	Czechoslovakia	50.31
2	Viktor Savchenko	Soviet Union	50.36
3	Bill Hartley	Great Britain	50.42
4th	François Aumas	Switzerland	50.50 SB
5	Janko Bratanow	Bulgaria	51.02
6th	Georgios Parris	Greece	51.44 SB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dmitri Stukalov	Soviet Union	50.48
2	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	50.54
3	Klaus Schönberger	GDR	50.60
4th	Frank Nusse	Netherlands	50.73 NO
5	José Carvalho	Portugal	51.32 SB
6th	Giorgio Ballati	Italy	51.47

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	50.16
2	Jochen Mayer	GDR	50.88
3	Ivan Daniš	Czechoslovakia	51.09
4th	Werner Reibert	BR Germany	51.18 SB
5	Steve Black	Great Britain	51.19 SB
6th	Jordan Jordanow	Bulgaria	52.05
7th	Gert Möller	Sweden	52.72 SB

Despite the best time of the season, Jan Struyk retired as fifth in his preliminary run

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	50.28
2	Rolf Ziegler	BR Germany	50.35
3	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	50.54
4th	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	50.65
5	Jan Struyk	Netherlands	51.83 SB

Semifinals

September 3, 1974, 4:40 p.m.

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dmitri Stukalov	Soviet Union	49.67 SB
2	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	49.77
3	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	49.79
4th	Rolf Ziegler	BR Germany	49.87 SB
5	Miroslav Kodejš	Czechoslovakia	49.93
6th	François Aumas	Switzerland	50.46
7th	Janko Bratanow	Bulgaria	50.66 NO
8th	Jochen Mayer	GDR	50.71 SB

After a Dutch record in the preliminary run, Frank Nusse did not reach the final as seventh in his semi-final run

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	49.63
2	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	49.79 SB
3	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	49.79
4th	Viktor Savchenko	Soviet Union	49.88
5	Klaus Schönberger	GDR	50.04
6th	Bill Hartley	Great Britain	50.55
7th	Frank Nusse	Netherlands	51.14
8th	Ivan Daniš	Czechoslovakia	53.28

final

4th September 1974

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	48.82 CR
2	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	48.94 PB
3	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	49.32 SB
4th	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	49.71 SB
5	Dmitri Stukalov	Soviet Union	49.98
6th	Viktor Savchenko	Soviet Union	50.01
7th	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	50.26
8th	Rolf Ziegler	BR Germany	50.29

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 11, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men 400m Hurdles 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 400m Hurdles European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 422, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) on european-athletics.org, accessed on July 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 400 m hurdles 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. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 400m hurdles men , accessed on June 11, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 11, 2019