1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's 400 metres hurdles at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 3 and 4 September 1974.

Medalists

Gold	Alan Pascoe Great Britain
Silver	Jean-Claude Nallet France
Bronze	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Soviet Union

Results

Final

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	48.82	CR
	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	48.94
	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	49.32
4	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	49.71
5	Dmitriy Stukalov	Soviet Union	49.98
6	Viktor Savchenko	Soviet Union	50.01
7	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	50.26
8	Rolf Ziegler	West Germany	50.49

Semi-finals

3 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dmitriy Stukalov	Soviet Union	49.67	Q
2	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	49.77	Q
3	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	49.79	Q
4	Rolf Ziegler	West Germany	49.87	Q
5	Miroslav Kodejš	Czechoslovakia	49.93
6	François Aumas	Switzerland	50.46
7	Yanko Bratanov	Bulgaria	50.66	NR
8	Jochen Mayer	East Germany	50.71

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	49.63	Q
2	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	49.79	NR Q
3	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	49.79	Q
4	Viktor Savchenko	Soviet Union	49.88	Q
5	Klaus Schönberger	East Germany	50.04
6	Bill Hartley	Great Britain	50.55
7	Frank Nusse	Netherlands	51.14
8	Ivan Daniš	Czechoslovakia	53.28

Heats

3 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Miroslav Kodejš	Czechoslovakia	50.31	Q
2	Viktor Savchenko	Soviet Union	50.36	Q
3	Bill Hartley	Great Britain	50.42	Q
4	François Aumas	Switzerland	50.50	q
5	Yanko Bratanov	Bulgaria	51.02	q
6	Georgios Parris	Greece	51.44

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dmitriy Stukalov	Soviet Union	50.48	Q
2	Jerzy Hewelt	Poland	50.54	Q
3	Klaus Schönberger	East Germany	50.60	Q
4	Frank Nusse	Netherlands	50.73	NR q
5	José Carvalho	Portugal	51.32
6	Giorgio Ballati	Italy	51.47

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	50.16	Q
2	Jochen Mayer	East Germany	50.88	Q
3	Ivan Daniš	Czechoslovakia	51.09	Q
4	Werner Reibert	West Germany	51.18
5	Steve Black	Great Britain	51.19
6	Yordan Yordanov	Bulgaria	52.05
7	Gert Möller	Sweden	52.72

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko	Soviet Union	50.28	Q
2	Rolf Ziegler	West Germany	50.35	Q
3	Alan Pascoe	Great Britain	50.54	Q
4	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	50.65	q
5	Jan Struyk	Netherlands	51.83

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

• Bulgaria (2)
• Czechoslovakia (2)
• East Germany (2)
• France (1)
• Greece (2)
• Italy (1)
• Netherlands (2)
• Poland (1)
• Portugal (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Sweden (1)
• Switzerland (1)
• Great Britain (3)
• West Germany (2)