The 11th European Athletics Championships of 1974 were held from 2 September to 8 September in Italy, at Rome's Stadio Olimpico. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
Men's results Complete results were published.
Track 1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 Valeriy Borzov 10.27 Pietro Mennea 10.34Klaus-Dieter Bieler 10.35Pietro Mennea 20.60Manfred Ommer 20.76Hans-Jürgen Bombach 20.83Karl Honz 45.04 David Jenkins 45.67Bernd Herrmann 45.78Luciano Sušanj 1:44.07 Steve Ovett 1:45.76Markku Taskinen 1:45.89Klaus-Peter Justus 3:40.55 Thomas Hansen 3:40.75Thomas Wessinghage 3:41.10Brendan Foster 13:17.21 Manfred Kuschmann 13:23.93Lasse Virén 13:24.57Manfred Kuschmann 28:25.75Tony Simmons 28:25.79Giuseppe Cindolo 28:27.05Ian Thompson 2:13:19Eckhard Lesse 2:14:57Gaston Roelants 2:16:30Volodymyr Holubnychy 1:29:30Bernd Kannenberg 1:29:38Roger Mills 1:32:34Christoph Höhne 3:59:06 Otto Barch 4:02:39Peter Selzer 4:04:28Guy Drut 13.40 Mirosław Wodzyński 13.67Leszek Wodzyński 13.71Alan Pascoe 48.82 Jean-Claude Nallet 48.94Yevgeniy Gavrilenko 49.32Bronisław Malinowski 8:15.04 Anders Gärderud 8:15.41Michael Karst 8:17.91Lucien Sainte-RoseJoseph ArameBruno CherrierDominique Chauvelot 38.69 Vincenzo GueriniNorberto OliosiLuigi BenedettiPietro Mennea 38.88Manfred KokotMichael DroeseHans-Jürgen BombachSiegfried Schenke 38.99Glen CohenWilliam HartleyAlan PascoeDavid Jenkins 3:03.33Hermann KöhlerHorst-Rüdiger SchlöskeKarl HonzRolf Ziegler 3:03.52Stig LönnqvistOssi KarttunenMarkku TaskinenMarkku Kukkoaho 3:03.57
Field 1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 Jesper Tørring 2.25 m Kęstutis Šapka 2.25 m =Vladimír Malý 2.19 mVladimir Kishkun 5.35 m =Władysław Kozakiewicz 5.35 mYury Isakov 5.30 mValeriy Podluzhniy 8.12 m wNenad Stekić 8.05 m Yevgeni Schubin 7.98 mViktor Saneyev 17.23 m Carol Corbu 16.68 mAndrzej Sontag 16.61 mHartmut Briesenick 20.50 mRalf Reichenbach 20.38 mGeoff Capes 20.21 mPentti Kahma 63.62 mLudvík Daněk 62.76 mRicky Bruch 62.00 mAleksey Spiridonov 74.20 mJochen Sachse 74.00 mReinhard Theimer 71.62 mHannu Siitonen 89.58 mWolfgang Hanisch 85.46 mTerje Thorslund 83.68 mRyszard Skowronek 8207 pts Yves Le Roy 8146 ptsGuido Kratschmer 8132 pts
Women's results
Track 1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 Irena Szewińska 11.13 Renate Stecher 11.23Andrea Lynch 11.28Irena Szewińska 22.51 Renate Stecher 22.68Mona-Lisa Pursiainen 23.17Riitta Salin 50.14 , ()Ellen Streidt 50.69Rita Wilden 50.88Salin's winning time was interpreted as a World record in 1977, when the IAAF required the results to be accurate to the hundredth. The previous hand-timed record of 49.9 by Irena Szewińska was no longer listed as a World record at that time.Lilyana Tomova 1:58.14 Gunhild Hoffmeister 1:58.81Mariana Suman 1:59.84 Gunhild Hoffmeister 4:02.25 Lilyana Tomova 4:04.97Grete Andersen 4:05.21 Nina Holmén 8:55.10 Lyudmila Bragina 8:56.09Joyce Smith 8:57.39 Annelie Ehrhardt 12.66 Annerose Fiedler 12.89Teresa Nowak 12.91 Doris MaletzkiRenate StecherChristina HeinichBärbel Eckert 42.51 , Elfgard SchittenhelmAnnegret KronigerAnnegret RichterInge Helten 42.75Ewa DługołęckaDanuta JedrejekBarbara BakulinIrena Szewińska 43.48Brigitte RohdeWaltraud DietschAngelika HandtEllen Streidt 3:25.21 Marika EklundMona-Lisa PursiainenPirjo WilmiRiitta Salin 3:25.70 Inta KļimovičaIngrīda BarkāneNadezhda KolesnikovaNatalya Sokolova 3:26.10
Field 1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 Rosemarie Witschas 1.95 m Milada Karbanová 1.91 mSara Simeoni 1.89 mIlona Bruzsenyák 6.65 mEva Šuranová 6.60 mPirkko Helenius 6.59 mNadezhda Chizhova 20.78 m Marianne Adam 20.43 mHelena Fibingerová 20.33 mFaina Melnik 69.00 m Argentina Menis 64.62 mGabriele Hinzmann 62.50 mRuth Fuchs 67.22 m , Jacqueline Todten 62.10 mNataša Urbančič 61.66 mNadiya Tkachenko 4776 ptsBurglinde Pollak 4678 ptsZoya Spasovkhodskaya 4550 pts
Medal table
Participation According to an unofficial count, 747 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, two athletes more than the official number of 745 as published.
(5) (21) (25) (1) (46) (12) (71) (33) (44) (1) (12) (21) (2) (7) (48) (1) (2) (13) (14) (56) (4) (20) (83) (17) (33) (12) (68) (64) (11)
References
EAA