European Athletics Championships 1974 / Men's discus throw

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 3 (qualification) September 4 (final)
Medalist
gold	Pentti Kahma ( FIN )
silver	Ludvík Daněk ( TCH )
bronze	Ricky Bruch ( SWE )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's discus throw at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 3 and 4, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

European champion was Pentti Kahma from Finland . He won ahead of the Czechoslovak defending champion and 1972 Olympic champion Ludvík Daněk . Bronze went to the Swedish EC runner-up from 1969 , Olympic third from 1972 and co-owner of the world record Ricky Bruch .

Existing records

World record	68.40 m	Jay New Years	Reno , USA	18th September 1968
		Ricky Bruch	Stockholm , Sweden	5th July 1972
European record		Ricky Bruch	Stockholm , Sweden	5th July 1972
EM record	63.90 m	Ludvík Daněk	EM Helsinki , Finland	15th August 1971

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

September 3, 1974, 8:00 a.m.

22 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 58.00 m. Fifteen athletes exceeded or reached this mark (highlighted in light blue) and contested the final on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	61.60
2	Pentti Kahma	Finland	61.06
3	Géza Fejér	Hungary	60.08 SB
4th	Welko Welew	Bulgaria	59.72
5	Viktor Pensikov	Soviet Union	59.50
6th	Gunnar Muller	GDR	59.46
7th	Leszek Gajdziński	Poland	59.42
8th	Armando De Vincentis	Italy	59.04
9	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	58.90
10	Hein-Direck New	BR Germany	58.80
11	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	58.40
12	Siegfried Pachale	GDR	58.28
13	Silvano Simeon	Italy	58.22 SB
14th	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	58.16
15th	Juhani Tuomola	Finland	58.00
16	Markku Tuokko	Finland	57.82
17th	Viktor Tsurba	Soviet Union	57.62 SB
18th	Bill Tancred	Great Britain	57.36 PB
19th	János Murányi	Hungary	57.36 SB
20th	Stanisław Wołodko	Poland	57.24 SB
21st	Josef Šilhavý	Czechoslovakia	57.04 SB
22nd	John Hillier	Great Britain	55.58

final

4th September 1974

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Pentti Kahma	Finland	63.62
2	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	62.76
3	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	62.00
4th	Siegfried Pachale	GDR	61.20 SB
5	Welko Welew	Bulgaria	61.00 SB
6th	Viktor Pensikov	Soviet Union	60.86
7th	Armando De Vincentiis	Italy	59.68 SB
8th	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	59.56 SB
9	Géza Fejér	Hungary	59.46
10	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	58.92 SB
11	Leszek Gajdziński	Poland	58.88
12	Hein-Direck New	BR Germany	58.80
13	Gunnar Muller	GDR	58.32
14th	Silvano Simeon	Italy	56.16
15th	Juhani Tuomola	Finland	55.58

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  The defending champion and Olympic champion from 1972 Ludvík Daněk became vice European champion

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  Wolfgang Schmidt reached eighth place - he finished second in the 1976 Olympics , then suffered severely from reprisals by the GDR regime, but continued his career after German reunification with a few other successes

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 15, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed July 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 423 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 15, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 15, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed July 15, 2019