1975 European Cup (athletics) explained

1975 European Cup
Host City:	Nice, France
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Events:	33
Previous:	1973 Edinburgh
Next:	1977 Helsinki

The 1975 European Cup was the 5th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

The Finals were held in Nice, France.

Final

Held in Nice on 16 and 17 August for both men and women.^[2]

Team standings

Men
Pos.	Nation	Points
1		112
2		109
3	Poland	100
4		83
5		83
6		83
7		80
8		68

Women
Pos.	Nation	Points
1		97
2		77
3		64
4	Poland	57
5	Romania	52
6	Bulgaria	47
7		39
8		35

Results summary

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Semifinals

Men

All semifinals were held on 12 and 13 July.^[2] Semifinal 1
Held in Turin, Italy

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		101
2		83
3	Romania	65
4		62
5		61
6		47

Semifinal 2
Held in London, United Kingdom

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Poland	92
2		91
3		80
4		68
5	Spain	49
6	Bulgaria	38

Semifinal 3
Held in Leipzig, East Germany

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		98
2		89
3		71.5
4		61.5
5		55
6	Greece	43

Women

All semifinals were held on 12 July.^[2] Semifinal 1
Held in Lüdenscheid, West Germany

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Poland	63
2		63
3		48
4		44
5		33
6		21

Semifinal 2
Held in Sofia, Bulgaria

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		77
2	Bulgaria	54
3		53
4		32
5		31
6		26

Semifinal 3
Held in Budapest, Hungary

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		68
2	Romania	50
3		46
4		37
5		36
6		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		110
3		93
4		88
5		65
6		46
7		43

Preliminary 2
Held in Athens, Greece

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Romania	94
2	Bulgaria	92
3	Greece	90
4		59
5		47
6		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		63
2		57
3		52
4		52
5	Spain	28
6		20

Preliminary 2
Held in Osijek, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		50
2		45
3		41
4		31
5	Greece	27

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