1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

Men's 400 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 400 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 2, 3, and 4 September 1974.[1]

The winning margin was 0.63 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the men's 400 metres has been won by more than 0.6 seconds at these championships since the introduction of fully automatic timing, although the winning margin in the 1938 European Athletics Championships was a hand-timed 0.8 seconds.

Medalists

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Gold Karl Honz
 West Germany
Silver David Jenkins
 Great Britain
Bronze Bernd Herrmann
 West Germany

Results

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Final

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4 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Karl Honz  West Germany 45.04 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) David Jenkins  Great Britain 45.67
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bernd Herrmann  West Germany 45.78
4 Markku Kukkoaho  Finland 45.84
5 Ossi Karttunen  Finland 45.87
6 Michael Fredriksson  Sweden 46.12
7 Erik Carlgren  Sweden 46.15
8 Francis Demarthon  France 46.90

Semi-finals

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3 September

Semi-final 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Karl Honz  West Germany 46.24 Q
2 Francis Demarthon  France 46.28 Q
3 Markku Kukkoaho  Finland 46.29 Q
4 Erik Carlgren  Sweden 46.51 Q
5 Jürgen Utikal  East Germany 46.62
6 Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske  West Germany 46.64
7 Per-Olof Sjöberg  Sweden 46.68
8 Roger Jenkins  Great Britain 47.30

Semi-final 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 David Jenkins  Great Britain 45.93 Q
2 Ossi Karttunen  Finland 46.36 Q
3 Michael Fredriksson  Sweden 46.39 Q
4 Bernd Herrmann  West Germany 46.40 Q
5 Alfons Brijdenbach  Belgium 46.43
6 Milorad Čikić  Yugoslavia 47.04
7 Andreas Scheibe  East Germany 47.24
8 Toine van den Goolberg  Netherlands 47.40

Heats

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2 September

Heat 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske  West Germany 45.92 Q
2 Alfons Brijdenbach  Belgium 46.00 Q
3 Francis Demarthon  France 46.11 Q
4 Andreas Scheibe  East Germany 46.38 Q
5 Per-Olof Sjöberg  Sweden 46.63 q
6 Roger Jenkins  Great Britain 46.78 q
7 Roman Siedlecki  Poland 47.35

Heat 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Bernd Herrmann  West Germany 46.30 Q
2 Markku Kukkoaho  Finland 46.38 Q
3 Jürgen Utikal  East Germany 46.44 Q
4 Toine van den Goolberg  Netherlands 46.46 Q
5 Milorad Čikić  Yugoslavia 46.68 q
6 Michael Fredriksson  Sweden 47.01 q
7 Stephen Marlow  Great Britain 48.71

Heat 3

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Ossi Karttunen  Finland 46.50 Q
2 David Jenkins  Great Britain 46.60 Q
3 Erik Carlgren  Sweden 46.97 Q
4 Karl Honz  West Germany 46.98 Q
5 Josip Alebić  Yugoslavia 47.41
6 Pasqualino Abeti  Italy 47.80

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014