European Athletics Championships 1974/4 × 100 m men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of men
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	13 relays with 52 athletes
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary) September 8th (final)
Medalist
gold	France
silver	Italy
bronze	GDR

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7th and 8th, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

France became European champions with Lucien Sainte-Rose , Joseph Arame , Bruno Cherrier and Dominique Chauvelot . Second place went to Italy with Vincenzo Guerini, Norberto Oliosi, Luigi Benedetti and Pietro Mennea . Bronze went to the GDR ( Manfred Kokot , Michael Droese , Hans-Jürgen Bombach , Siegfried Schenke ).

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	38.2 s	USA ( Charles Greene , Mel Pender , Ronnie Ray Smith , Jim Hines )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
		USA ( Larry Black , Robert Taylor , Gerald Tinker , Eddie Hart )	OS Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (today Germany )	September 10, 1972
European record	38.4 s	France ( Gérard Fenouil , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
EM record	38.8 s	France ( Alain Sarteur , Patrick Bourbeillon , Gérard Fenouil and François Saint-Gilles )	EM Athens , Greece	September 10, 1969

Record improvement

The French European championship relay improved the existing EM record in the line-up of Lucien Sainte-Rose , Joseph Arame , Bruno Cherrier and Dominique Chauvelot by a tenth of a second to 38.7 seconds.

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	38.19 s	USA ( Larry Black , Robert Taylor , Gerald Tinker , Eddie Hart )	OS Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (today Germany )	September 10, 1972
European record	38.43 s	France ( Gérard Fenouil , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
EM record	38.89 s	France ( Alain Sarteur , Patrick Bourbeillon , Gérard Fenouil and François Saint-Gilles )	EM Athens , Greece	September 10, 1969

Record improvement

The French European championship relay improved the existing EM record in the line-up of Lucien Sainte-Rose , Joseph Arame , Bruno Cherrier and Dominique Chauvelot by twenty hundredths of a second to 38.69 s.

Preliminary round

September 7, 1974, 10:05 am

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.27
2	GDR	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke	39.33
3	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marek Bezynski Ryszard Mardy Zenon Nowosz	39.78
4th	Spain	Luis Sarria Juan Sarrasqueta Miguel Arnau José Luis Sánchez	40.01
5	Sweden	Rolf Trulsson Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Christer Garpenborg	40.11 SB
6th	Finland	Ossi Karttunen Raimo Vilén Lasse Malin Markku Juhola	40.20 SB
7th	Hungary	Lajos Gresa Endre Lepold László Korona Tibor Farkas	40.36 SB

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	France	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot	39.24
2	Soviet Union	Alexandr Korneljuk Juris Silovs Alexander Aksinin Valery Borsow	39.55
3	Bulgaria	Lyubomir Ivanov Petar Petrow Georgi Ganchew Mirolyub Stoitschew	39.95
4th	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Kynos Jaroslav Matoušek Juraj Demeč Luděk Bohman	40.00
5	Great Britain	David Roberts Alan Lerwill Chris Monk Don Halliday	40.33 SB
DSQ	BR Germany	Klaus Ehl Klaus-Dieter Bieler Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister

final

September 8, 1974, 5:15 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	France	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot	38.69 CR
2	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	38.88 SB
3	GDR	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke	38.99 SB
4th	Soviet Union	Alexandr Korneljuk Juris Silovs Alexander Aksinin Valery Borsow	39.03 SB
5	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marek Bezynski Ryszard Mardy Zenon Nowosz	39.35 SB
6th	Spain	Luis Sarria Juan Sarrasqueta Miguel Arnau José Luis Sánchez	39.87 SB
7th	Bulgaria	Lyubomir Ivanov Petar Petrow Georgi Ganchew Mirolyub Stoitschew	39.91 SB
8th	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Kynos Jaroslav Matoušek Juraj Demeč Luděk Bohman	39.92 SB

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 12, 2019
• Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed July 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 424 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 4 × 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 12, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m , accessed on July 12, 2019
2. ^ ^{A b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 100 m on rfea.es, p. 35 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 12, 2019