European Athletics Championships 1974/4 × 400 m men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 400 m relay of men
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	11 relays with 45 athletes
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary) September 8th (final)
Medalist
gold	Great Britain
silver	BR Germany
bronze	France

The men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7th and 8th, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

Great Britain won European championships with Glen Cohen , Bill Hartley , Alan Pascoe and David Jenkins . Second place went to the Federal Republic of Germany with Hermann Köhler , Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske , Karl Honz and Rolf Ziegler as well as Bernd Herrmann, who was used in the preliminary run . Bronze went to France ( Jean-Claude Nallet , Roger Velasquez , Jacques Carette , Francis Demarthon).
The German runner Bernd Herrmann , who was used here in the preliminary run, also received a silver medal.

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.

Existing records

World record	2: 56.1 min el : 2: 56.16 min	USA ( Vince Matthews , Ron Freeman , Larry James , Lee Evans )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
European record	3: 00.5 min el : 3: 00.57 min	Federal Republic of Germany ( Helmar Müller , Manfred Kinder , Gerhard Hennige , Martin Jellinghaus )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
	3: 00.5 min el : 3: 00.58 min	Poland ( Stanisław Grędziński , Jan Balachowski , Jan Werner , Andrzej Badeński )
	3: 00.5 min el : 3: 00.46 min	Great Britain ( Martin Reynolds , Alan Pascoe , David Hemery , David Jenkins )	OS Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (today Germany )	September 10, 1972
EM record	3: 02.3 min el : 3: 02.30 min	Poland ( Jan Werner , Edmund Borowski, Stanisław Grędziński , Andrzej Badeński )	EM Athens , Greece	September 10, 1969

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1969 , was neither set nor improved at these European championships.

Preliminary round

September 7, 1974, 7:10 p.m.

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 (min)
1	Finland	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho	3: 04.6
2	Great Britain	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins	3: 04.7
3	France	Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Velasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon	3: 05.3
4th	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Reinhard van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg	3: 06.28 SB
5	Italy	Flavio Borghi Alfonso di Guida Lorenzo Cellerino Marcello Fiasconaro	3: 08.5 SB
6th	Yugoslavia	Ivica Ivicak Milorad Cikic Josip Alebić Luciano Sušanj	3: 37.8

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	Soviet Union	Valery Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeny Gavrilenko Semyon Kotscher	3: 05.3 SB
2	Sweden	Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson	3: 05.5 SB
3	GDR	Reinhard Kokot Benno stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe	3: 05.8
4th	BR Germany	Hermann Koehler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Bernd Herrmann	3: 05.8
5	Czechoslovakia	Ivan Danis Frantisek Stross Miroslav Tulis Miroslav Kodejs	3: 06.29 SB

final

September 8, 1974, 6:10 p.m.

Compared to the preliminary runs, there was a change in line-up in the final:
In the German relay, Rolf Ziegler took the place of Bernd Herrmann as the final runner.

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	Great Britain	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins	3: 03.33 SB
2	BR Germany	Hermann Köhler, Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske, Karl Honz, Rolf Ziegler, in addition: Bernd Herrmann	3: 03.52 SB
3	France	Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Velasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon	3: 04.6 SB
4th	GDR	Reinhard Kokot Benno stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe	3: 05.0 SB
5	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Reinhard van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg	3: 06.3 SB
6th	Sweden	Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson	3: 12.6
DNF	Soviet Union	Valery Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeny Gavrilenko Semyon Kotscher
DSQ	Finland	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho

The Finnish relay team originally took third place in 3: 03.6 min, but was disqualified after the race. The Dutch relay team was also disqualified initially, but this decision was withdrawn by the Jury d'Appell.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 12, 2019
• Men 4x400m 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 4x400m 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 × 400 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. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 400 m , accessed on July 12, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 400 m on rfea.es, p. 35 (PDF, 271 kB). French / English, accessed July 12, 2019
3. ^ Report in the specialist journal Leichtathletik (BR Germany) from 1962, reprinted in Klaus Amrhein / Axel Schäfer: 60 years of European Athletics Championships 1998 Groß-Zimmer / Bochum, p. 298
4. ↑ European Athletics Association (Ed.): Statistics Manual. Munich 2002, published on the occasion of the European Championships 2002, p. 93