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

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. 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.

Medalists Gold Glen CohenBill HartleyAlan PascoeDavid JenkinsSilver Hermann KöhlerHorst-Rüdiger SchlöskeKarl HonzRolf ZieglerBronze Stig LönnqvistOssi KarttunenMarkku TaskinenMarkku Kukkoaho

Results Final 8 September Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Glen CohenBill HartleyAlan PascoeDavid Jenkins 3:03.33 Hermann KöhlerHorst-Rüdiger SchlöskeKarl HonzRolf Ziegler 3:03.52 Stig LönnqvistOssi KarttunenMarkku TaskinenMarkku Kukkoaho 3:03.57 4 Jean-Claude NalletRoger VélasquezJacques CaretteFrancis Demarthon 3:04.6 5 Reinhard KokotBenno StopsJürgen UtikalAndreas Scheibe 3:05.0 6 Raymond HeerenveenRijn van den HeuvelFrank NusseToine van den Goolberg 3:06.3 NR 7 Per-Olof SjöbergDimitrie GramaErik CarlgrenMichael Fredriksson 3:12.6 Valeriy YurchenkoVladimir NosenkoYevgeniy GavrilenkoSemyon Kocher DNF

Heats 7 September

Heat 1 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Stig LönnqvistOssi KarttunenMarkku TaskinenMarkku Kukkoaho 3:04.6 Q 2 Glen CohenBill HartleyAlan PascoeDavid Jenkins 3:04.7 Q 3 Jean-Claude NalletRoger VélasquezJacques CaretteFrancis Demarthon 3:05.3 Q 4 Raymond HeerenveenRijn van den HeuvelFrank NusseToine van den Goolberg 3:06.28 Q 5 Flavio BorghiAlfonso di GuidaLorenzo CellerinoMarcello Fiasconaro 3:08.5 6 Ivica IvičakMilorad ČikićJosip AlebićLuciano Sušanj 3:37.8

Heat 2 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Valeriy YurchenkoVladimir NosenkoYevgeniy GavrilenkoSemyon Kocher 3:05.3 Q 2 Per-Olof SjöbergDimitrie GramaErik CarlgrenMichael Fredriksson 3:05.5 Q 3 Reinhard KokotBenno StopsJürgen UtikalAndreas Scheibe 3:05.8 Q 4 Hermann KöhlerHorst-Rüdiger SchlöskeKarl HonzBernd Herrmann 3:05.8 Q 5 Ivan DanišFrantišek ŠtrossMiroslav TulisMiroslav Kodejš 3:06.29

Participation According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

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