1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

None Men's 4 × 400 metres relay European Athletics Championships The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 7 and 8 September 1974. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 420–427 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 The third-placed Finnish team was initially disqualified over Markku Kukkoaho's use of his elbows at the start of the anchor leg, but Finland launched a successful counter-protest and kept the bronze medals.Peltola Vesa-Matti Yleisurheilun arvokisatulosten ristiriitaisuuksia Suomen Urheilutietäjät http://www.sci.fi/~sut/yuarvo.html Finnish December 2006 27 January 2019 20 December 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221220220528/http://www.sci.fi/~sut/yuarvo.html dead Medalists Gold Glen CohenBill HartleyAlan PascoeDavid JenkinsGBRSilver Hermann KöhlerHorst-Rüdiger SchlöskeKarl HonzRolf ZieglerFRGBronze Stig LönnqvistOssi KarttunenMarkku TaskinenMarkku KukkoahoFIN Results Final 8 September Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes GBR Glen CohenBill HartleyAlan PascoeDavid Jenkins 3:03.33 FRG Hermann KöhlerHorst-Rüdiger SchlöskeKarl HonzRolf Ziegler 3:03.52 FIN Stig LönnqvistOssi KarttunenMarkku TaskinenMarkku Kukkoaho 3:03.57 4 FRA Jean-Claude NalletRoger VélasquezJacques CaretteFrancis Demarthon 3:04.6 5 GDR Reinhard KokotBenno StopsJürgen UtikalAndreas Scheibe 3:05.0 6 NED Raymond HeerenveenRijn van den HeuvelFrank NusseToine van den Goolberg 3:06.3 NR 7 SWE Per-Olof SjöbergDimitrie GramaErik CarlgrenMichael Fredriksson 3:12.6 8 URS 1955 Valeriy YurchenkoVladimir NosenkoYevgeniy GavrilenkoSemyon Kocher DNF Heats 7 September Heat 1 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 FIN Stig LönnqvistOssi KarttunenMarkku TaskinenMarkku Kukkoaho 3:04.6 Q 2 GBR Glen CohenBill HartleyAlan PascoeDavid Jenkins 3:04.7 Q 3 FRA Jean-Claude NalletRoger VélasquezJacques CaretteFrancis Demarthon 3:05.3 Q 4 NED Raymond HeerenveenRijn van den HeuvelFrank NusseToine van den Goolberg 3:06.28 Q 5 ITA Flavio BorghiAlfonso di GuidaLorenzo CellerinoMarcello Fiasconaro 3:08.5 6 SFR Yugoslavia Ivica IvičakMilorad ČikićJosip AlebićLuciano Sušanj 3:37.8 Heat 2 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 URS 1955 Valeriy YurchenkoVladimir NosenkoYevgeniy GavrilenkoSemyon Kocher 3:05.3 Q 2 SWE Per-Olof SjöbergDimitrie GramaErik CarlgrenMichael Fredriksson 3:05.5 Q 3 GDR Reinhard KokotBenno StopsJürgen UtikalAndreas Scheibe 3:05.8 Q 4 FRG Hermann KöhlerHorst-Rüdiger SchlöskeKarl HonzBernd Herrmann 3:05.8 Q 5 TCH Ivan DanišFrantišek ŠtrossMiroslav TulisMiroslav Kodejš 3:06.29 Participation According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event. 22em TCH (4) GDR (4) FIN (4) FRA (4) ITA (4) NED (4) URS 1955 (4) SWE (4) GBR (4) FRG (5) SFR Yugoslavia (4) References Category:4 x 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1974 European Athletics Championships