European Athletics Championships 1974 / men's javelin

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (qualification) September 8th (final)
Medalist
gold	Hannu Siitonen ( URS )
silver	Wolfgang Hanisch ( GDR )
bronze	Terje Thorslund ( NOR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's javelin throw at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7 and 8, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

European champion was the Finnish EM fourth from 1971 Hannu Siitonen . Before the EM third in 1971, he won Wolfgang Hanisch . Bronze went to the Norwegian Terje Thorslund.

Existing records

World record	94.08 m	Klaus Wolfermann	Leverkusen , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	May 5th 1973
European record
Championship record	91.52 m	Jānis Lūsis	EM Athens , Greece	19th September 1969

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

qualification

September 7, 1974, 11:15 a.m.

Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 78.00 m. Fourteen athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and competed in the final on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Klaus Wolfermann	BR Germany	82.64
2	Dave Travis	Great Britain	82.38 SB
3	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	82.08
4th	Lauri Koski-Vähälä	Finland	81.80
5	Serge Leroy	France	80.90 PB
6th	Miklós Németh	Hungary	80.86
7th	Michael Wessing	BR Germany	80.56 SB
8th	Terje Thorslund	Norway	80.10
9	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	79.70
10	Nikolai Grebnyev	Soviet Union	79.48
11	György Erdelyi	Hungary	79.10 SB
12	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	78.44
13	Jorma Jaakola	Finland	78.40 SB
14th	Aimo Aho	Finland	78.38
15th	Alexander Makarov	Soviet Union	77.92 SB
16	Milco Milenski	Bulgaria	77.10 PB
17th	Horst Timmer	BR Germany	75.08 SB
18th	Renzo Cramerotti	Italy	73.54 SB
19th	Lolésio Tuita	France	68.86 SB
NM	Brian Roberts	Great Britain	without space

final

Wolfgang Hanisch, who was third in the European Championship in 1971 , was vice European champion - in 1978 he was awarded another bronze in the European Championship , and in 1980 he became Olympic Knight

September 8, 1974, 4:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	89.58 SB
2	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	85.46 SB
3	Terje Thorslund	Norway	83.68 SB
4th	Nikolai Grebnyev	Soviet Union	83.66 SB
5	Klaus Wolfermann	BR Germany	83.36
6th	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	83.06 SB
7th	Miklós Németh	Hungary	81.06 SB
8th	Lauri Koski-Vähälä	Finland	79.92
9	Aimo Aho	Finland	79.38 SB
10	György Erdelyi	Hungary	78.06
11	Dave Travis	Great Britain	75.42
12	Serge Leroy	France	74.62
13	Jorma Jaakola	Finland	73.32
14th	Michael Wessing	BR Germany	71.68

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  The 1972 Olympic champion and world record holder Klaus Wolfermann (here in 2011) reached fifth place

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  The four-time European champion Jānis Lūsis (on the photo in 2011) came in sixth place - in 1968 he had won Olympic gold, in 1964 he had become Olympic knight

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  Dave Travis finished eleventh - at the European Championships in 1969 he was ninth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 16, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed July 16, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 16, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Javelin Throw European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 423 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 16, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved July 16, 2019