1975 European Cup (athletics)

1975 European Cup
Host city	Nice, France
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	33
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The 1975 European Cup was the 5th edition of the European Cup of athletics.

The Finals were held in Nice, France.

Final

Held in Nice on 16 and 17 August for both men and women.

Team standings

Men

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	112
2	Soviet Union	109
3	Poland	100
4	Great Britain	83
5	West Germany	83
6	Finland	83
7	France	80
8	Italy	68

Women

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	97
2	Soviet Union	77
3	West Germany	64
4	Poland	57
5	Romania	52
6	Bulgaria	47
7	Great Britain	39
8	France	35

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -0.7 m/s)	Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union	10.40	Pietro Mennea Italy	10.40	Alexander Thieme East Germany	10.53
200 m (Wind: -0.9 m/s)	Pietro Mennea Italy	20.42 CR	Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union	20.61	Antti Rajamäki Finland	20.97
400 m	David Jenkins Great Britain	45.52	Markku Kukkoaho Finland	45.56	Jerzy Pietrzyk Poland	45.67
800 m	Steve Ovett Great Britain	1:46.56	Dieter Fromm East Germany	1:47.36	Vladimir Ponomaryov Soviet Union	1:47.64
1500 m	Thomas Wessinghage West Germany	3:39.1a	Bronisław Malinowski Poland	3:39.8a	Frank Clement Great Britain	3:40.1a
5000 m	Brendan Foster Great Britain	13:36.18 CR	Enn Sellik Soviet Union	13:42.8a	Manfred Kuschmann East Germany	13:44.78
10,000 m	Karl-Heinz Leiteritz East Germany	28:37.2a	Dave Black Great Britain	28:42.2a	Giuseppe Cindolo Italy	28:48.0a
3000 m steeplechase	Michael Karst West Germany	8:16.4a	Frank Baumgartl East Germany	8:17.6a	Bronisław Malinowski Poland	8:18.6a
110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.4 m/s)	Guy Drut France	13.57 CR	Thomas Munkelt East Germany	13.78	Viktor Myasnikov Soviet Union	13.88
400 m hurdles	Alan Pascoe Great Britain	49.00 CR	Jean-Claude Nallet France	49.38	Jerzy Hewelt Poland	50.59
4 × 100 m	East Germany Hans-Joachim Zenk Thomas Munkelt Hans-Jürgen Bombach Alexander Thieme	38.98 CR	Soviet Union Aleksandr Kornelyuk Nikolay Kolesnikov Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	39.00	Italy Vincenzo Guerini Luciano Caravani Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.32
4 × 400 m	Great Britain Glen Cohen Jim Aukett Bill Hartley David Jenkins	3:02.9a	West Germany Franz-Peter Hofmeister Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Lothar Krieg Bernd Herrmann	3:03.4a	Finland Juhani Tiihonen Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho	3:04.1a
High jump	Aleksandr Grigoryev Soviet Union	2.24 CR	Paul Poaniewa France	2.22	Rolf Beilschmidt East Germany	2.20
Pole vault	Władysław Kozakiewicz Poland	5.45	Antti Kalliomäki Finland	5.40	Yuriy Isakov Soviet Union	5.40
Long jump	Grzegorz Cybulski Poland	8.15 CR	Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union	7.92	Peter Rieger East Germany	7.70
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev Soviet Union	16.97	Christian Valétudié France	16.70	Andrzej Sontag Poland	16.32
Shot put	Geoff Capes Great Britain	20.75	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg East Germany	20.33	Valeriy Voykin Soviet Union	19.47
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany	63.16	Pentti Kahma Finland	62.70	Hein-Direck Neu West Germany	62.20
Hammer throw	Karl-Hans Riehm West Germany	77.50 CR	Valentin Dmitrenko Soviet Union	77.22	Jochen Sachse East Germany	76.04
Javelin throw	Nikolay Grebnyev Soviet Union	84.30	Piotr Bielczyk Poland	82.00	Seppo Hovinen Finland	81.02
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -0.5 m/s)	Renate Stecher East Germany	11.29	Andrea Lynch Great Britain	11.37	Irena Szewińska Poland	11.41
200 m (Wind: -0.8 m/s)	Renate Stecher East Germany	22.63 CR	Irena Szewińska Poland	22.84	Annegret Richter West Germany	23.28
400 m	Irena Szewińska Poland	50.50 CR	Ellen Streidt East Germany	50.61	Donna Murray Great Britain	51.30
800 m	Mariana Suman Romania	2:00.6a	Ulrike Klapezynski East Germany	2:00.7a	Lilyana Tomova Bulgaria	2:01.1a
1500 m	Waltraud Strotzer East Germany	4:08.0a	Natalia Andrei Romania	4:08.4a	Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union	4:08.9a
100 m hurdles (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	Annelie Ehrhardt East Germany	12.83 CR	Grażyna Rabsztyn Poland	12.85	Natalya Lebedeva Soviet Union	12.93
4 × 100 m	East Germany Monika Meyer Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Sybille Priebsch	42.81 CR	Soviet Union Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Lyudmila Maslakova Svetlana Belova Vera Anisimova	43.19	West Germany Inge Helten Annegret Kroniger Annegret Richter Brigit Wilkes	43.58
4 × 400 m	East Germany Brigitte Rohde Gisela Anton Rita Kühne Ellen Streidt	3:24.0a CR	Great Britain Jannette Roscoe Gladys Taylor Verona Elder Donna Murray	3:26.6a	Soviet Union Inta Kļimoviča Larisa Golovanova Ingrida Barkane Nadezhda Ilyina	3:27.0a
High jump	Rosemarie Ackermann East Germany	1.94	Ulrike Meyfarth West Germany	1.92	Virginia Ioan Romania	1.86
Long jump	Lidiya Alfeyeva Soviet Union	6.76	Christa Striezel West Germany	6.56	Jacqueline Curtet France	6.36
Shot put	Marianne Adam East Germany	21.32 CR	Svetlana Krachevskaya Soviet Union	20.53	Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria	20.24
Discus throw	Faina Melnik Soviet Union	66.54	Gabriele Hinzmann East Germany	64.72	Argentina Menis Romania	63.60
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs East Germany	64.80	Svetlana Babich Soviet Union	61.88	Lyutviyan Mollova Bulgaria	58.36
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Semifinals

Men

All semifinals were held on 12 and 13 July.

Semifinal 1
Held in Turin, Italy

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	West Germany	101
2	Italy	83
3	Romania	65
4	Hungary	62
5	Czechoslovakia	61
6	Belgium	47

Semifinal 2
Held in London, United Kingdom

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Poland	92
2	Great Britain	91
3	Soviet Union	80
4	Sweden	68
5	Spain	49
6	Bulgaria	38

Semifinal 3
Held in Leipzig, East Germany

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	98
2	Finland	89
3	France	71.5
4	Yugoslavia	61.5
5	Switzerland	55
6	Greece	43

Women

All semifinals were held on 12 July.

Semifinal 1
Held in Lüdenscheid, West Germany

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Poland	63
2	West Germany	63
3	Finland	48
4	Czechoslovakia	44
5	Italy	33
6	Denmark	21

Semifinal 2
Held in Sofia, Bulgaria

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	77
2	Bulgaria	54
3	Great Britain	53
4	Netherlands	32
5	Sweden	31
6	Yugoslavia	26

Semifinal 3
Held in Budapest, Hungary

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Soviet Union	68
2	Romania	50
3	Hungary	46
4	France	37
5	Austria	36
6	Belgium	34

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 14 and 15 June. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1
Held in Lisbon, Portugal

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Spain	114
2	Switzerland	110
3	Belgium	93
4	Netherlands	88
5	Portugal	65
6	Iceland	46
7	Ireland	43

Preliminary 2
Held in Athens, Greece

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Romania	94
2	Bulgaria	92
3	Greece	90
4	Norway	59
5	Austria	47
6	Denmark	45

Women

All preliminaries were held on 14 June. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1
Held in Madrid, Spain

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Czechoslovakia	63
2	Belgium	57
3	Sweden	52
4	Switzerland	52
5	Spain	28
6	Portugal	20

Preliminary 2
Held in Osijek, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Yugoslavia	50
2	Austria	45
3	Denmark	41
4	Ireland	31
5	Greece	27

External links

• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics