1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

Events at the 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

The men's 800 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Roma, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 2, 3, and 4 September 1974.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Luciano Sušanj Yugoslavia
Silver	Steve Ovett United Kingdom
Bronze	Markku Taskinen Finland

Results

Final

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	1:44.07	NR CR
02 !	Steve Ovett	United Kingdom	1:45.76
03 !	Markku Taskinen	Finland	1:45.89
4	Vladimir Ponomaryev	Soviet Union	1:46.02
5	Gerhard Stolle	East Germany	1:46.19
6	Marcello Fiasconaro	Italy	1:46.28
7	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:46.29
8	Willi Wülbeck	West Germany	1:46.31

Semi-finals

3 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Steve Ovett	United Kingdom	1:47.1	Q
2	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	1:47.2	Q
3	Gerhard Stolle	East Germany	1:47.4	Q
4	Willi Wülbeck	West Germany	1:47.4	Q
5	Marcel Philippe	France	1:47.5
6	Åke Svenson	Sweden	1:47.7
7	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:47.9
8	Hans-Henning Ohlert	East Germany	1:48.6

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Ponomaryev	Soviet Union	1:47.6	Q
2	Marcello Fiasconaro	Italy	1:47.7	Q
3	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:47.7	Q
4	Markku Taskinen	Finland	1:47.7	Q
5	Gheorghe Ghipu	Romania	1:47.8
6	Johan Van Wezer	Belgium	1:48.0
7	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	1:48.5
8	Josef Schmid	West Germany	1:48.6

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Johan Van Wezer	Belgium	1:47.7	Q
2	Gerhard Stolle	East Germany	1:47.7	Q
3	Marcello Fiasconaro	Italy	1:47.8	Q
4	Heinz Langenbach	West Germany	1:47.9
5	David McMeekin	United Kingdom	1:48.1
6	Andrés Ballbé	Spain	1:48.2
7	Günther Hasler	Liechtenstein	1:50.2

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gheorghe Ghipu	Romania	1:46.9	Q
2	Steve Ovett	United Kingdom	1:47.0	Q
3	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:47.1	Q
4	Vladimir Ponomaryev	Soviet Union	1:47.1	q
5	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	1:47.5	NR q
6	Åke Svenson	Sweden	1:47.5	q
7	Willi Wülbeck	West Germany	1:47.6	q

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	1:48.4	Q
2	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:48.6	Q
3	Markku Taskinen	Finland	1:48.7	Q
4	Sven-Erik Nielsen	Denmark	1:48.9
5	Ján Šišovský	Czechoslovakia	1:48.9
6	Stavros Mermingis	Greece	1:49.8
7	Sven-Johan Svendsen	Norway	1:50.9

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Henning Ohlert	East Germany	1:49.7	Q
2	Marcel Philippe	France	1:49.8	Q
3	Josef Schmid	West Germany	1:49.9	Q
4	Pavel Litovchenko	Soviet Union	1:50.0
5	Nicolae Onescu	Romania	1:50.1
6	Jean Kaiser	Luxembourg	1:54.2

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

France (1)
Greece (1)
Italy (1)
Liechtenstein (1)
Luxembourg (1)

Norway (1)
Portugal (1)
Romania (2)
Soviet Union (2)
Spain (1)

References

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

800 metres at the European Athletics Championships

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