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Europe Continental championships · since 1934

1974 European Champs

Rome, Italy 2–8 Sep 1974

events: 39
medals awarded: 117
nations on the podium: 17
world records: 4

Podiums

Sprints

100m

wind -1.0

1

Valeriy Borzov CR 10.27

2

Pietro Mennea 10.34

3

Klaus-Dieter Bieler Competed under FRG (West Germany) 10.35

Sprints

200m

wind -0.8

1

Pietro Mennea 20.60

2

Manfred Ommer Competed under FRG (West Germany) 20.76

3

Hans-Jürgen Bombach 20.83

Sprints

400m

1

Karl Honz Competed under FRG (West Germany) CR 45.04

2

David Jenkins 45.67

3

Bernd Herrmann Competed under FRG (West Germany) 45.78

Middle & long

800m

1

Luciano Susanj CRNR 1:44.07

2

Steve Ovett 1:45.8

3

Markku Taskinen 1:45.9

Middle & long

1500m

1

Klaus-Peter Justus 3:40.6

2

Tom-Birger Hansen 3:40.8

3

Thomas Wessinghage Competed under FRG (West Germany) 3:41.1

Middle & long

5000m

1

Brendan Foster CR 13:17.2

2

Manfred Kuschmann NR 13:24.0

3

Lasse Viren 13:24.6

Middle & long

10,000m

1

Manfred Kuschmann 28:25.8

2

Anthony Simmons 28:25.8

3

Giuseppe Cindolo 28:27.2

Road

Marathon

1

Ian Thompson 2:13:18

2

Eckhard Lesse 2:14:57

3

Gaston Roelants 2:16:29

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

1

Bronislaw Malinowski CRNR 8:15.0

2

Anders Garderud CR in heats: 8:23.6 CR* 8:15.4

3

Michael Karst Competed under FRG (West Germany) NR 8:18.0

Hurdles

110m hurdles

wind +0.5

1

Guy Drut CR 13.40

2

Miroslaw Wodzynski 13.67

3

Leszek Wodzynski 13.71

Hurdles

400m hurdles

1

Alan Pascoe CR 48.82

2

Jean-Claude Nallet NR 48.94

3

Yevgeniy Gavrilenko 49.32

Jumps

High jump

1

Jesper Torring CRNR 2.25

2

Kestutis Sapka CR 2.25

3

Vladimir Maly Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 2.19

Jumps

Pole vault

1

Vladimir Kishkun CR= 5.35

2

Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz CR= 5.35

3

Yuriy Isakov 5.30

Jumps

Long jump

1

Valeriy Podluzhniy Two-times CR in legal attempts: 8.04, 8.10 CR* 8.12 +2.8

2

Nenad Stekic CR 8.05 +1.5

3

Yevgeniy Shubin 7.98 +1.9

Jumps

Triple jump

1

Viktor Saneyev CR 17.23 +1.2

2

Carol Corbu 16.68 -0.5

3

Andrzej Sontag 16.61 -1.4

Throws

Shot put

1

Hartmut Briesenick 20.50

2

Ralf Reichenbach Competed under FRG (West Germany) 20.38

3

Geoffrey Capes 20.21

Throws

Discus throw

1

Pentti Kahma 63.62

2

Ludvik Danek Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 62.76

3

Rickard Bruch 62.00

Throws

Hammer throw

1

Aleksey Spiridonov 74.20

2

Jochen Sachse 74.00

3

Reinhard Theimer 71.62

Throws

Javelin throw

1

Hannu Siitonen 89.58

2

Wolfgang Hanisch 85.46

3

Terje Thorslund 83.68

Race walks

20 km race walk

1

Vladimir Golubnichiy 1:29:30

2

Bernd Kannenberg Competed under FRG (West Germany) 1:29:39

3

Roger Mills 1:32:34

Race walks

50 km race walk

1

Christoph Höhne CR 3:59:06

2

Otto Barch 4:02:39

3

Peter Selzer 4:04:29

Combined

Decathlon

1

Ryszard Skowronek Updated for 1984 table: 8230 pts CRNR 8207

2

Yves LeRoy Updated for 1984 table: 8144 pts NR 8146

3

Guido Kratschmer Updated for 1984 table: 8108 pts / Competed under FRG (West Germany) 8132

Relays

4x100m

1

France

Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot

CR 38.69

2

Italy

Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea

NR 38.88

3

Germany DR (1949-89)

Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke

38.99

Relays

4x400m

1

Great Britain & NI

Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins

3:03.33

2

Germany

Hermann Kohler Horst-Rudiger Schloske Karl Honz Rolf Ziegler Bernd Herrmann

3:03.52

3

Finland

Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho

3:03.57

Medal table

17 nations · 117 medals

#	Nation				Total	Share
1	Germany DR (1949-89) GDR	10	12	5	27
2	Soviet Union URS	9	3	5	17
3	Great Britain & NI GBR	4	3	4	11
4	Poland POL	4	2	4	10
5	Finland FIN	4	1	5	10
6	France FRA	2	2	0	4
7	Germany GER	1	5	6	12
8	Italy ITA	1	2	2	5
9	Yugoslavia SR JUG	1	1	1	3
10	Bulgaria BUL	1	1	0	2
11	Denmark DEN	1	1	0	2
12	Hungary HUN	1	0	0	1
13	Czech Republic CZE	0	3	2	5
14	Romania ROU	0	2	1	3
15	Sweden SWE	0	1	1	2
16	Norway NOR	0	0	2	2
17	Belgium BEL	0	0	1	1

Records set

4 WR · 28 CR

WR Riitta Salin 400m · Women 50.14
WR Rosemarie Ackermann High jump · Women 1.95
WR Ruth Fuchs Javelin throw · Women 67.22
WR Germany DR (1949-89) 4x100m · Women 42.51
CR Valeriy Borzov 100m · Men 10.27
CR Karl Honz 400m · Men 45.04
CR Luciano Susanj 800m · Men 1:44.07
CR Brendan Foster 5000m · Men 13:17.2
CR Bronislaw Malinowski 3000m steeplechase · Men 8:15.0
CR* Anders Garderud 3000m steeplechase · Men 8:15.4
CR Guy Drut 110m hurdles · Men 13.40
CR Alan Pascoe 400m hurdles · Men 48.82
CR Jesper Torring High jump · Men 2.25
CR Kestutis Sapka High jump · Men 2.25
CR= Vladimir Kishkun Pole vault · Men 5.35
CR= Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz Pole vault · Men 5.35
CR* Valeriy Podluzhniy Long jump · Men 8.12
CR Nenad Stekic Long jump · Men 8.05
CR Viktor Saneyev Triple jump · Men 17.23
CR Christoph Höhne 50 km race walk · Men 3:59:06
CR Ryszard Skowronek Decathlon · Men 8207
CR France 4x100m · Men 38.69
CR Irena Szewinska 100m · Women 11.13
CR Irena Szewinska 200m · Women 22.51
CR Lilyana Tomova 800m · Women 1:58.1
CR Gunhild Hoffmeister 1500m · Women 4:02.3
CR Nina Holmen 3000m · Women 8:55.2
CR Anneliese Ehrhardt 100m hurdles · Women 12.66
CR Nadezhda Chizhova Shot put · Women 20.78
CR Faina Melnik Discus throw · Women 69.00
CR Nadezhda Tkachenko Pentathlon · Women 4826
CR Germany DR (1949-89) 4x400m · Women 3:25.2

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