European Athletics Championships 1974 / Women's Pentathlon

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's Pentathlon
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	3rd / 4th September
Medalists
gold	Nadija Tkachenko ( URS )
silver	Burglinde Pollak ( GDR )
bronze	Soy Spasovchodskaya ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

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

In this competition, the athletes from the Soviet Union won two medals, gold and bronze. European champion was Nadija Tkachenko . Second place went to the third Olympic athlete from 1972 , vice European champion from 1971 and current world record holder Burglinde Pollak from the GDR. Bronze went to Soja Spassowchodskaja.

Records

Existing records

World record	4932 P 1971 value.	4946 P 1985 value.	Burglinde Pollak	Bonn , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	21./22. September 1973
European record
EM record	5299 P 1964 value.	4634 P 1985 value.	Heide Rosendahl	EM Helsinki , Finland	13./14. August 1971

Record improvement

European champion Nadija Tkatschenko improved the EM record to 4776 P - rating from 1971. Heide Rosendahl had achieved her higher number of points in 1971 according to an earlier rating system, which is not comparable with the current point system. After today in heptathlon valid score of 1980 Rosendahl score was 4634, Tkachenko was then converted scored 4826 P.  

execution

The five disciplines of the pentathlon took place over two days.
Day 1 - September 3: 100-meter hurdles , shot put , high jump
Day 2 - September 4: long jump , 200-meter run

The scoring was based on a point table valid from 1971.

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved for the heptathlon according to the current rating system from 1985 are listed for comparison . If this rating had been applied, there would have been a different order for ranks seven to eleven:

• Christel Voss (eighth), Penka Sokolowa (ninth), Fočić Đurđa (tenth) and Ulrike Jacob (eleventh) have each moved up one place.
• Margrit Olfert would have dropped from seventh to eleventh place.

But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Result

3rd / 4th September 1974

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Surname

nation

Points official scoring

Points 1985 rating

100 m hurdles

Bullet poking

High jump

Status after day 1 (P)

Long jump

200 m

1

Nadia Tkachenko

Soviet Union

4776 CR

4826

13.39 s

16.07 m

1.74 m

2873

6.36 m

24.20 s

2

Burglinde Pollak

GDR

4678 SB

4698

13.36 s

15.80 m

1.71 m

2834

6.19 m

24.46 s

3

Soy Spasovchodskaya

Soviet Union

4550 PB

4560

13.27 s

14.48 m

1.65 m

2714

6.37 m

24.96 s

4th

Sigrun Thon

GDR

4548 SB

4547

13.58 s

12.68 m

1.71 m

6.35 m

23.97 s

5

Lyudmila Popovskaya

Soviet Union

4548 SB

4555

13.89 s

14.87 m

1.74 m

2742

6.08 m

24.60 s

6th

Ilona Bruzsenyák

Hungary

4399 SB

4407

13.63 s

11.52 m

1.71 m

6.45 m

24.98 s

7th

Margrit Olfert

GDR

4391 SB

4231

13.57 s

14.35 m

1.60 m

5.85 m

25.58 s

8th

Christel Voss

BR Germany

4384 PB

4364

14.06 s

13.76 m

1.80 m

2714

5.85 m

25.58 s

9

Penka Sokolova

Bulgaria

4323 SB

4277

13.42 s

13.40 m

1.68 m

2661

5.86 m

25.70 s

10

Đurđa Fočić

Yugoslavia

4289 PB

4250

14.13 s

11.44 m

1.74 m

5.95 m

24.55 s

11

Ulrike Jacob

BR Germany

4247 PB

4233

14.34 s

10.82 m

1.74 m

6.29 m

25.12 s

12

Margit Papp

Hungary

4207 SB

4159

14.54 s

13.64 m

1.74 m

5.91 m

26.42 s

13

Ann Wilson

Great Britain

4182 PB

4151

14.17 s

10.67 m

1.76 m

6.05 m

25.62 s

14th

Ciska Janssen

Netherlands

4151 PB

4086

14.69 s

11.95 m

1.68 m

2414

5.94 m

25.03 s

DNF

Florence Picaut

France

13.97 s

12.11 m

1.75 m

5.55 m

DNS

Snezana Jurkova

Bulgaria

13.83 s

12.63 m

1.68 m

DNS

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  European champion Nadija Tkachenko - in 1978 the European championship title, which had initially been won again, was stripped of her due to doping abuse , in 1980 she won Olympic gold after reducing her doping ban

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  Burglinde Pollak, third in the Olympics in 1972 , became vice European champion like in 1971 - later she won another Olympic and EM medal, only the gold was missing from her collection

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  Margrit Olfert, who was third in the European Championship in 1971 under her name Margrit Herbst, reached seventh place this time

• 

  Ciska Janssen, also represented in the long jump final, came in fourteenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 7, 2019
• Women Pentathlon European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed July 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Pentathlon European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 427 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, pentathlon women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 7, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pentathlon , p. 78 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on July 25, 2019 (Spanish / English)