1973 European Cup (athletics) explained

1973 European Cup
Host City:	Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Events:	33
Previous:	1970 Stockholm/Budapest
Next:	1975 Nice

The 1973 European Cup was the 4th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

The Finals were held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Final

Held in Edinburgh on 8–9 September (men) and 7 September (women).^[2]

Team standings

Men
Pos.	Nation	Points
1		82.5
2		78.5
3		76
4		70.5
5		65
6		45

Women
Pos.	Nation	Points
1		72
2		52
3	Bulgaria	50
4		36
		36
6	Romania	27

Results summary

Men's events

100 m (Wind: +1.5 m/s)	Siegfried Schenke	10.26 CR	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	10.34	Jobst Hirscht	10.47
200 m (Wind: -3.3 m/s)	Chris Monk	21.00	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	21.05	Ossi Karttunen	21.24
400 m	Karl Honz	45.20	David Jenkins	46.00	Ossi Karttunen	46.26
800 m	Andy Carter	1:46.44 CR	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	1:46.70	Dieter Fromm	1:46.71
1500 m	Frank Clement	3:40.79	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	3:41.85	Klaus-Peter Justus	3:42.61
5000 m	Brendan Foster	13:54.65	Manfred Kuschmann	13:55.31	Harald Norpoth	13:57.66
10,000 m	Nikolay Sviridov	28:44.08	Detlef Uhlemann	28:44.22	Karl-Heinz Leiteritz	28:44.36
3000 m steeplechase	Tapio Kantanen	8:28.45	Willi Maier	8:29.76	Leonid Savelyev	8:30.93
110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Guy Drut	13.70	Anatoliy Moshiashvili	13.76	Thomas Munkelt	13.77
400 m hurdles	Alan Pascoe	50.07 CR	Dmitriy Stukalov	50.61	Jürgen Laser	51.09
4 × 100 m	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	39.45	Jobst Hirscht Klaus Ehl Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	39.49	Brian Green Chris Monk Ian Matthews Les Piggot	39.86
4 × 400 m	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Bernd Herrmann Karl Honz	3:04.25 CR	Valeriy Yurchenko Leonid Korolyev Valeriy Yudin Semyon Kocher	3:05.11	John Wilson Alan Pascoe Joe Chivers David Jenkins	3:06.27
High jump	Valentin Gavrilov	2.15	Asko Pesonen	2.13	Paul Poaniewa	2.09
Pole vault	Yuriy Isakov Antti Kalliomäki	5.30			Mike Bull Reinhard Kuretzky	5.20
Long jump	Valeriy Podluzhniy	8.20w	Hans Baumgartner	8.12	Max Klauss	8.03
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev	16.90w	Jörg Drehmel	16.89	Esa Rinne	16.18
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick	20.95	Reijo Ståhlberg	20.27	Geoff Capes	19.80
Discus throw	Pentti Kahma	63.10	Siegfried Pachale	60.48	Bill Tancred	59.06
Hammer throw	Anatoliy Bondarchuk	74.08	Reinhard Theimer	72.06	Jacques Accambray	71.90
Javelin throw	Klaus Wolfermann	90.68	Jānis Lūsis	88.48	Hannu Siitonen	84.08

Women's events

100 m (Wind: +1.3 m/s)	Renate Stecher	11.25	Annegret Richter	11.32	Marina Sidorova	11.40
200 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Renate Stecher	22.81	Marina Sidorova	22.93	Helen Golden	23.14
400 m	Monika Zehrt	51.75 CR	Lilyana Tomova	52.33	Nadezhda Kolesnikova	52.35
800 m	Gunhild Hoffmeister	1:58.94 CR	Svetla Zlateva	1:59.05	Nijolé Sabaité	2:02.17
1500 m	Tonka Petrova	4:09.02 CR	Karin Krebs	4:09.37	Lyudmila Bragina	4:10.11
100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Annelie Ehrhardt	12.95 CR	Judy Vernon	13.34	Natalya Lebedeva	13.62
4 × 100 m	Petra Kandarr Renate Stecher Christina Heinich Doris Selmigkeit	42.95 CR	Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Annegret Kroniger	43.68	Elizabeth Sutherland Helen Golden Judy Vernon Andrea Lynch	44.78
4 × 400 m	Waltraud Dietsch Renate Siebach Monika Zehrt Rita Kühne	3:28.66 CR	Nina Zyuskova Ingrida Barkane Natalya Kulichkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova	3:30.57	Zdravka Trifonova Lilyana Tomova Stefka Yordanova Svetla Zlateva	3:31.89
High jump	Yordanka Blagoeva	1.84	Rita Kirst	1.82	Galina Filatova Virginia Ioan Barbara Lawton	1.80
Long jump	Angela Schmalfeld	6.63	Viorica Viscopoleanu	6.39	Ruth Martin-Jones	6.30w
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova	20.77 CR	Ivanka Khristova	19.23	Marita Lange	18.81
Discus throw	Faina Melnik	69.48 WR, CR	Argentina Menis	64.16	Gabriele Hinzmann	63.76
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs	66.10 WR, CR	Lyutviyan Mollova	60.30	Ameli Koloska	55.46

Semifinals

Men

All semifinals were held on 4 and 5 August.^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.Semifinal 1
Held in Oslo, Norway

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		98.5
2		80.5
3		72.5
4		62
5		57.5
6		48

Semifinal 2
Held in Celje, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		103
2		88
3	Poland	83.5
4		63
5		43
6	Spain	37

Semifinal 3
Held in Nice, Switzerland

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		98.5
2		90
3		76
4		73
5	Romania	42
6	Bulgaria	40.5

Women

All semifinals were held on 4 August.^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.Semifinal 1
Held in Warsaw, Poland

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		63
2	Bulgaria	58
3	Poland	55.5
4		36.5
5		33
6		26

Semifinal 2
Held in Bucharest, Romania

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		76
2	Romania	54
3		53.5
4		43
5		24
6		22.5

Semifinal 3
Held in Sittard, Netherlands

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		60
2		57
3		50
4		39
5		38
6		28

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First two teams advanced to the semifinals.Preliminary 1
Held in Lisbon, Portugal

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		68
2		63.5
3		37.5
4		29

Preliminary 2
Held in Brussels, Belgium

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		105
2		90
3		83
4		64.5
5		42
6		32.5

Preliminary 3
Held in Athenes, Greece

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Romania	42
2	Bulgaria	38.5
3	Greece	36.5

Women

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.Preliminary 1
Held in Lyngby, Denmark

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		66
2		62
3		45
4		43
5		40
6		16

Preliminary 2
Held in Rijeka, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		67
2		57.5
3		47.5
4		42
5	Spain	35
6		24

External links

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

Notes and References

Web site: The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event . european-athletics.org . 3 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131006060426/http://www.european-athletics.org/event-archive.html?id=98 . 6 October 2013 .
http://asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com/files/annuario-fidal.pdf 2010 Italian almanach