European Athletics Championships 1974 / men's hammer throw

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (qualification) September 7th (final)
Medalist
gold	Alexei Spiridonov ( URS )
silver	Jochen Sachse ( GDR )
bronze	Reinhard Theimer ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's hammer throw at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6 and 7, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

With silver and bronze, the throwers from the GDR won two medals in this competition. Alexei Spiridonov from the USSR became European champion . Second place went to 1972 Olympic runner- up, Jochen Sachse . Third place went to the Vice European Champion from 1971 and world record holder Reinhard Theimer .

Existing records

World record	76.60 m	Reinhard Theimer	Leipzig , GDR (now Germany )	4th July 1974
European record
EM record	74.68 m	Anatoly Bondarchuk	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

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

qualification

The European champion in 1971 , third in the European Championship in 1971 and Olympic champion in 1972 Anatolij Bondarchuk failed in the qualification - in 1976 he became Olympic third again

September 6, 1974

22 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 68.00 m. Thirteen athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Alexei Spiridonov	Soviet Union	72.36
2	Jochen Sachse	GDR	72.32
3	Heikki Kangas	Finland	70.84
4th	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	70.64
5	Manfred Hüning	BR Germany	70.10
6th	Valentin Dmitrenko	Soviet Union	69.76
7th	Edwin Klein	BR Germany	69.38 SB
8th	Ian Chipchase	Great Britain	69.28
9	Karl-Heinz Beilig	GDR	69.14 SB
10	István Encsi	Hungary	69.06 SB
11	Chris Black	Great Britain	69.04 SB
12	Uwe Beyer	BR Germany	68.48
13	Szymon Jagliński	Poland	68.46 SB
14th	Peter Stiefenhofer	Switzerland	67.76 PB
15th	Howard Payne	Great Britain	67.44
16	Anatoly Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	66.62 SB
17th	Peter Sternad	Austria	66.44 SB
18th	Jaroslav Charvát	Czechoslovakia	65.54
19th	Faustino de Boni	Italy	65.12 PB
20th	Jacques Accambray	France	64.98 SB
21st	Josef Hájek	Czechoslovakia	64.80
22nd	Daniel Mikolajczyk	France	62.12 PB

final

September 7, 1974, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Alexei Spiridonov	Soviet Union	74.20
2	Jochen Sachse	GDR	74.00 SB
3	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	71.62
4th	Valentin Dmitrenko	Soviet Union	71.18 SB
5	Uwe Beyer	BR Germany	71.04 SB
6th	Manfred Hüning	BR Germany	70.58 SB
7th	Heikki Kangas	Finland	70.04
8th	István Encsi	Hungary	68.50
9	Edwin Klein	BR Germany	68.48
10	Ian Chipchase	Great Britain	68.44
11	Karl-Heinz Beilig	GDR	67.82
12	Chris Black	Great Britain	65.54
13	Szymon Jagliński	Poland	65.52

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  The 1972 Olympic runner- up, Jochen Sachse, became vice European champion

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  Defending champion Uwe Beyer reached fifth place - he had won bronze at the 1964 Olympic Games and the 1966 European Championships

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 15, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men Hammer 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 Hammer 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, men's hammer throw 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. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed July 15, 2019