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

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 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 7 and 8 September 1974.^[1] 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.^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins Great Britain
Silver	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Rolf Ziegler West Germany
Bronze	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho Finland

8 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins	3:03.33
	West Germany	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Rolf Ziegler	3:03.52
	Finland	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho	3:03.57
4	France	Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Vélasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon	3:04.6
5	East Germany	Reinhard Kokot Benno Stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe	3:05.0
6	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Rijn van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg	3:06.3	NR
7	Sweden	Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson	3:12.6
	Soviet Union	Valeriy Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Semyon Kocher	DNF

7 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Finland	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho	3:04.6	Q
2	Great Britain	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins	3:04.7	Q
3	France	Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Vélasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon	3:05.3	Q
4	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Rijn van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg	3:06.28	Q
5	Italy	Flavio Borghi Alfonso di Guida Lorenzo Cellerino Marcello Fiasconaro	3:08.5
6	Yugoslavia	Ivica Ivičak Milorad Čikić Josip Alebić Luciano Sušanj	3:37.8

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Soviet Union	Valeriy Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Semyon Kocher	3:05.3	Q
2	Sweden	Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson	3:05.5	Q
3	East Germany	Reinhard Kokot Benno Stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe	3:05.8	Q
4	West Germany	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Bernd Herrmann	3:05.8	Q
5	Czechoslovakia	Ivan Daniš František Štross Miroslav Tulis Miroslav Kodejš	3:06.29

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

^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014
^ Peltola, Vesa-Matti (December 2006). "Yleisurheilun arvokisatulosten ristiriitaisuuksia". Suomen Urheilutietäjät (in Finnish). Retrieved 27 January 2019.

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