1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

1974 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's hammer throw at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 6 and 7 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Aleksey Spiridonov  Soviet Union
Silver	Jochen Sachse  East Germany
Bronze	Reinhard Theimer  East Germany

7 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Aleksey Spiridonov	Soviet Union	74.20
	Jochen Sachse	East Germany	74.00
	Reinhard Theimer	East Germany	71.62
4	Valentin Dmitrenko	Soviet Union	71.18
5	Uwe Beyer	West Germany	71.04
6	Manfred Hüning	West Germany	70.58
7	Heikki Kangas	Finland	70.04
8	István Encsi	Hungary	68.50
9	Edwin Klein	West Germany	68.48
10	Ian Chipchase	Great Britain	68.44
11	Karl-Heinz Beilig	East Germany	67.82
12	Chris Black	Great Britain	65.54
13	Szymon Jagliński	Poland	65.52

6 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Aleksey Spiridonov	Soviet Union	72.36	Q
2	Jochen Sachse	East Germany	72.32	Q
3	Heikki Kangas	Finland	70.84	Q
4	Reinhard Theimer	East Germany	70.64	Q
5	Manfred Hüning	West Germany	70.10	Q
6	Valentin Dmitrenko	Soviet Union	69.76	Q
7	Edwin Klein	West Germany	69.38	Q
8	Ian Chipchase	Great Britain	69.28	Q
9	Karl-Heinz Beilig	East Germany	69.14	Q
10	István Encsi	Hungary	69.06	Q
11	Chris Black	Great Britain	69.04	Q
12	Uwe Beyer	West Germany	68.48	Q
13	Szymon Jagliński	Poland	68.46	Q
14	Peter Stiefenhofer	Switzerland	67.76
15	Howard Payne	Great Britain	67.44
16	Anatoliy Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	66.62
17	Peter Sternad	Austria	66.44
18	Jaroslav Charvát	Czechoslovakia	65.54
19	Faustino de Boni	Italy	65.12
20	Jacques Accambray	France	64.98
21	Josef Hájek	Czechoslovakia	64.80
22	Daniel Mikolajczyk	France	62.12

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.