1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 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 100 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Roma, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 2 and 3 September 1974.

Medalists

Gold	Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union
Silver	Pietro Mennea Italy
Bronze	Klaus-Dieter Bieler West Germany

Results

Final

3 September Wind: -1m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.27
	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.34
	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	10.35
4	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.35
5	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.35
6	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	10.36
7	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.39
8	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.43

Semi-finals

3 September

Semi-final 1

Wind: 2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.39	Q
2	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	10.42	Q
3	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.42	Q
4	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.45	Q
5	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.50
6	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.52
7	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.55
8	Michael Droese	East Germany	10.59

Semi-final 2

Wind: 1.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.28	Q
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.29	Q
3	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.36	Q
4	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	10.44	Q
5	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.44
6	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.46
7	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.61
8	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.69

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

Wind: -1.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.49	Q
2	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.56	Q
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.64	Q
4	Michael Droese	East Germany	10.65	q
5	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.67	q
6	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.80
7	Lasse Malin	Finland	10.85

Heat 2

Wind: -2.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.46	Q
2	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.54	Q
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.63	q
4	Andrzej Świerczyński	Poland	10.73
5	Hans-Joachim Zenk	East Germany	10.82
6	Endre Lepold	Hungary	10.97

Heat 3

Wind: -0.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	10.53	Q
2	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	10.54	Q
3	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.57	Q
4	Juris Silovs	Soviet Union	10.62	q
5	Javier Martínez	Spain	10.82
6	Don Halliday	United Kingdom	10.86
7	László Korona	Hungary	10.95

Heat 4

Wind: -1m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.58	Q
2	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.59	Q
3	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	10.59	Q
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.70	q
5	Lajos Gresa	Hungary	10.74
6	Marian Woronin	Poland	10.77
7	Rolf Trulsson	Sweden	10.78
8	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.92

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

• Belgium (1)
• Czechoslovakia (2)
• East Germany (3)
• Finland (3)

• France (1)
• Greece (1)
• Hungary (3)
• Italy (1)

• Poland (3)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Spain (1)

• Sweden (2)
• United Kingdom (1)
• West Germany (3)