1974 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Rome
place	Circuit through Rome
Attendees	30 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 8, 1974
Medalist
gold	Ian Thompson ( GBR )
silver	Eckhard Lesse ( GDR )
bronze	Gaston Roelants ( BEL )

The men's marathon at the 1974 European Athletics Championships took place on September 8, 1974 in Rome , Italy .

The Briton Ian Thompson won the race in 2:13:19 hours. Eckhard Lesse from the GDR was vice European champion ahead of the Belgian Gaston Roelants .

Existing records / best performances

World record	Derek Clayton	2:08:33.6 h	Antwerp , Belgium	May 30, 1969
Championship record	Karel Lismont	2: 13: 09.0 h	EM in Helsinki	15th August 1971

Colosseum in Rome

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Result

Bronze medalist Gaston Roelants, Belgium

Jose Reveyn, Belgium - fifth place

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Ian Thompson	Great Britain	2: 13: 18.8
	Eckhard Lesse	GDR	2: 14: 57.4
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	2: 16: 29.6 PB
04th	Bernie Plain	Great Britain	2: 18: 02.2
05	Jose Reveyn	Belgium	2: 19: 36.4 SB
06th	Ferenc Szekeres	Hungary	2: 20: 12.8 SB
07th	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	2: 20: 28.2 SB
08th	Neil Cusack	Ireland	2: 22: 05.0
09	Paavo Leiviska	Finland	2: 22: 45.6
10	Yuriy Laptyev	Soviet Union	2: 23: 15.6 SB
11	Paolo Accaputo	Italy	2: 24: 06.0 PB
12	Danny McDaid	Ireland	2: 25: 07.8 SB
13	Jørgen Jensen	Denmark	2: 26: 54.2 SB
14th	Bob Sercombe	Great Britain	2: 27: 13.0 PB
15th	Josef Jánský	Czechoslovakia	2: 27: 40.4 SB
16	Edward Łęgowski	Poland	2: 27: 45.8 SB
17th	Václav Mládek	Czechoslovakia	2:30: 16.8 PB
18th	Peter Suchán	Czechoslovakia	2:30: 42.6 PB
19th	Reino Paukkonen	Finland	2: 31: 11.2 SB
20th	Günter Mielke	BR Germany	2: 32: 21.6 SB
21st	Ryszard Chudecki	Poland	2: 34: 15.0 PB
22nd	Anatoliy Strelets	Soviet Union	2: 34: 55.2 PB
	Antonio Mangano	Italy	DNF
	Yuri Velikorodnych	Soviet Union
	Karel Lismont	Belgium
	Agustín Diaz Pavon	Spain
	Peter Helmer	Denmark
	Atanas Galabov	Bulgaria
	Theofanis Tsimingatos	Greece
	Fernand Kolbeck	France
	Jochen Schirmer	BR Germany	DNS

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  Ferenc Szekeres, Hungary - sixth place

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  Defending champion Karel Lismont, Belgium - race not finished

Web links and sources

• Men Marathon European Championships 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed February 22, 2019
• European Marathon Championships on marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed February 22, 2019

Video

• Europei Roma 1974 Maratona Thompson GBR on youtube.com, published May 13, 2015, accessed February 22, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed February 22, 2019