1974 European Athletics Championships – Women'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 women'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	Lilyana Todorova Bulgaria
Silver	Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany
Bronze	Mariana Suman Romania

Results

Final

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Lilyana Todorova	Bulgaria	1:58.14	CR
02 !	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	1:58.81	NR
03 !	Mariana Suman	Romania	1:59.84
4	Marie-Françoise Dubois	France	1:59.94	NR
5	Valentina Gerasimova	Soviet Union	2:00.10
6	Nina Morgunova	Soviet Union	2:00.76
7	Elżbieta Katolik	Poland	2:01.37
8	Gisela Ellenberger	West Germany	2:01.48

Semi-finals

3 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mariana Suman	Romania	2:00.2	Q
2	Marie-Françoise Dubois	France	2:00.3	NR Q
3	Valentina Gerasimova	Soviet Union	2:00.8	Q
4	Gisela Ellenberger	West Germany	2:01.5	Q
5	Waltraud Pöhland	East Germany	2:01.9
6	Mary Purcell	Ireland	2:04.0
7	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	2:04.1
8	Rosemary Wright	United Kingdom	2:04.9

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	2:03.0	Q
2	Elżbieta Katolik	Poland	2:03.1	Q
3	Lilyana Todorova	Bulgaria	2:03.3	Q
4	Nina Morgunova	Soviet Union	2:03.6	Q
5	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:04.1
6	Lesley Kiernan	United Kingdom	2:05.4
7	Nijolė Sabaitė	Soviet Union	DNS
8	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	DNS

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marie-Françoise Dubois	France	2:01.2	Q
2	Elżbieta Katolik	Poland	2:01.4	Q
3	Mariana Suman	Romania	2:01.5	Q
4	Nina Morgunova	Soviet Union	2:01.7	Q
5	Mary Purcell	Ireland	2:02.8	q
6	Birgitte Jennes	Denmark	2:09.2

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	2:02.6	Q
2	Gisela Ellenberger	West Germany	2:02.7	Q
3	Nijolė Sabaitė	Soviet Union	2:02.9	Q
4	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	2:03.2	Q
5	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:03.6	q
6	Rosemary Wright	United Kingdom	2:03.9	q

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lilyana Todorova	Bulgaria	2:02.1	Q
2	Valentina Gerasimova	Soviet Union	2:02.2	Q
3	Waltraud Pöhland	East Germany	2:02.3	Q
4	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	2:02.3	NR Q
5	Lesley Kiernan	United Kingdom	2:02.8	q
6	Jolanta Januchta	Poland	2:04.7

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

Belgium (1)
Bulgaria (2)
Denmark (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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Women	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

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