1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 7 and 8 September 1974.

Medalists

Gold	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot France
Silver	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea Italy
Bronze	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke East Germany

Results

Final

8 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot	38.69	CR
	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	38.88
	East Germany	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke	38.99
4	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kornelyuk Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	39.03
5	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marek Bedyński Grzegorz Mądry Zenon Nowosz	39.35
6	Spain	Luis Sarría Juan Sarrasqueta Miguel Arnau José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	39.87
7	Bulgaria	Lyubomir Ivanov Petar Petrov Georgi Ganchev Mirolyub Petkov	39.91
8	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Kynos Jaroslav Matoušek Juraj Demeč Luděk Bohman	39.92

Heats

7 September

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.27	Q
2	East Germany	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke	39.33	Q
3	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marek Bedyński Grzegorz Mądry Zenon Nowosz	39.78	Q
4	Spain	Luis Sarría Juan Sarrasqueta Miguel Arnau José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	40.01	Q
5	Sweden	Rolf Trulsson Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Christer Garpenborg	40.11
6	Finland	Ossi Karttunen Raimo Vilén Lasse Malin Markku Juhola	40.20
7	Hungary	Lajos Gresa Endre Lepold László Korona Tibor Farkas	40.36

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	France	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot	39.24	Q
2	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kornelyuk Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	39.55	Q
3	Bulgaria	Lyubomir Ivanov Petar Petrov Georgi Ganchev Mirolyub Petkov	39.95	Q
4	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Kynos Jaroslav Matoušek Juraj Demeč Luděk Bohman	40.00	Q
5	Great Britain	David Roberts Alan Lerwill Chris Monk Don Halliday	40.33
	West Germany	Klaus Ehl Klaus-Dieter Bieler Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 52 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

• Bulgaria (4)
• Czechoslovakia (4)
• East Germany (4)
• Finland (4)
• France (4)
• Hungary (4)
• Italy (4)
• Poland (4)
• Soviet Union (4)
• Spain (4)
• Sweden (4)
• Great Britain (4)
• West Germany (4)