1974 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1974 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 9 and 10 March 1974 in Gothenburg, Sweden at the Scandinavium.

1974 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	9–10 March 1974
Host city	Gothenburg Sweden
Venue	Scandinavium
Events	21
Participation	262 athletes from 25 nations
Records set	8 WR, 10 CR
← 1973 Rotterdam 1975 Katowice →

The track used for the championships was 196 metres long.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	6.58 CR	Manfred Kokot (GDR)	6.63	Aleksandr Kornelyuk (URS)	6.66
400 metres details	Fons Brijdenbach (BEL)	46.60	Andreas Scheibe (GDR)	46.80	Günter Arnold (GDR)	46.94
800 metres details	Luciano Sušanj (YUG)	1:48.07	András Zsinka (HUN)	1:48.50	Jozef Plachý (TCH)	1:49.49
1500 metres details	Henryk Szordykowski (POL)	3:41.78	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:42.02	Włodzimierz Staszak (POL)	3:43.48
3000 metres details	Emiel Puttemans (BEL)	7:48.48	Paul Thijs (BEL)	7:51.76	Pavel Pěnkava (TCH)	7:51.79
60 metres hurdles details	Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS)	7.66 WR	Mirosław Wodzyński (POL)	7.68	Frank Siebeck (GDR)	7.75
4 × 392 metres relay details	Sweden Michael Fredriksson Gert Möller Anders Faager Dimitre Grama	3:04.55	France Pierre Bonvin Patrick Salvador Roger Vélazquez Lionel Malingre	3:05.46	Only two starting teams
High jump details	Kęstutis Šapka (URS)	2.22	István Major (HUN)	2.20	Vladimír Malý (TCH)	2.17
Pole vault details	Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL)	5.35	Antti Kalliomäki (FIN)	5.30	Jānis Lauris (URS)	5.30
Long jump details	Jean-François Bonhème (FRA)	8.17	Hans Baumgartner (FRG)	8.10	Max Klauss (GDR)	8.03
Triple jump details	Michał Joachimowski (POL)	17.03 WR	Mikhail Bariban (URS)	16.88	Bernard Lamitié (FRA)	16.56
Shot put details	Geoff Capes (GBR)	20.95 AR CR	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR)	20.87	Jaroslav Brabec (TCH)	19.87

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Renate Stecher (GDR)	7.16 WR	Andrea Lynch (GBR)	7.17	Irena Szewińska (POL)	7.20
400 metres details	Jelica Pavličić (YUG)	52.64 CR	Nadezhda Ilyina (URS)	52.81	Waltraud Dietsch (GDR)	52.84
800 metres details	Elżbieta Katolik (POL)	2:02.38 AR CR	Gisela Ellenberger (FRG)	2:02.54	Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR)	2:02.59
1500 metres details	Tonka Petrova (BUL)	4:10.97 WR	Karin Krebs (GDR)	4:11.33	Tamara Kazachkova (URS)	4:14.45
60 metres hurdles details	Annerose Fiedler (GDR)	8.08	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	8.08	Meta Antenen (SUI)	8.19
4 × 392 metres relay details	Sweden Ann-Charlotte Hesse Lena Fritzson Ann-Margret Utterberg Ann Larsson	3:38.15	Bulgaria Lilyana Tomova Sonya Zachariyeva Yordanka Filipova Tonka Petrova	3:39.21	Only two starting teams
High jump details	Rosemarie Witschas (GDR)	1.90	Milada Karbanová (TCH)	1.88	Rita Kirst (GDR)	1.88
Long jump details	Meta Antenen (SUI)	6.69 NR	Angela Schmalfeld (GDR)	6.56	Valeria Ștefănescu (ROM)	6.39
Shot put details	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	20.75 WR	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	20.62	Marianne Adam (GDR)	19.70

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	4	2	2	8
2	East Germany (GDR)	3	5	7	15
3	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	3	9
4	Belgium (BEL)	2	1	0	3
5	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	0	0	2
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	4	6
8	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
11	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
12	West Germany (FRG)	0	3	0	3
13	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	0	2
14	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
15	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		21	21	19	61

Participating nations

•  Austria (2)
•  Belgium (6)
•  Bulgaria (11)
•  Czechoslovakia (15)
•  Denmark (5)
•  East Germany (28)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (20)
•  Great Britain (10)
•  Greece (7)
•  Hungary (7)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (11)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  Norway (6)
•  Poland (21)
•  Romania (10)
•  Soviet Union (31)
•  Spain (7)
•  Sweden (23)
•  Switzerland (3)
•  West Germany (21)
•  Yugoslavia (2)

References

• Results - men at GBR Athletics
• Results - women at GBR Athletics
• Detailed results at Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite
• EAA