1973 European Cup (athletics)

1973 European Cup
1973 European Cup
Host city	Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	33
	← 1970 Stockholm/Budapest 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	Soviet Union	82.5
2	East Germany	78.5
3	West Germany	76
4	Great Britain	70.5
5	Finland	65
6	France	45

Women
Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	72
2	Soviet Union	52
3	Bulgaria	50
4	West Germany	36
	Great Britain	36
6	Romania	27

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.5 m/s)	Siegfried Schenke East Germany	10.26 CR	Aleksandr Kornelyuk Soviet Union	10.34	Jobst Hirscht West Germany	10.47
200 m (Wind: -3.3 m/s)	Chris Monk Great Britain	21.00	Hans-Jürgen Bombach East Germany	21.05	Ossi Karttunen Finland	21.24
400 m	Karl Honz West Germany	45.20	David Jenkins Great Britain	46.00	Ossi Karttunen Finland	46.26
800 m	Andy Carter Great Britain	1:46.44 CR	Yevgeniy Arzhanov Soviet Union	1:46.70	Dieter Fromm East Germany	1:46.71
1500 m	Frank Clement Great Britain	3:40.79	Paul-Heinz Wellmann West Germany	3:41.85	Klaus-Peter Justus East Germany	3:42.61
5000 m	Brendan Foster Great Britain	13:54.65	Manfred Kuschmann East Germany	13:55.31	Harald Norpoth West Germany	13:57.66
10,000 m	Nikolay Sviridov Soviet Union	28:44.08	Detlef Uhlemann West Germany	28:44.22	Karl-Heinz Leiteritz East Germany	28:44.36
3000 m steeplechase	Tapio Kantanen Finland	8:28.45	Willi Maier West Germany	8:29.76	Leonid Savelyev Soviet Union	8:30.93
110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Guy Drut France	13.70	Anatoliy Moshiashvili Soviet Union	13.76	Thomas Munkelt East Germany	13.77
400 m hurdles	Alan Pascoe Great Britain	50.07 CR	Dmitriy Stukalov Soviet Union	50.61	Jürgen Laser East Germany	51.09
4 × 100 m	East Germany Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	39.45	West Germany Jobst Hirscht Klaus Ehl Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	39.49	Great Britain Brian Green Chris Monk Ian Matthews Les Piggot	39.86
4 × 400 m	West Germany Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Bernd Herrmann Karl Honz	3:04.25 CR	Soviet Union Valeriy Yurchenko Leonid Korolyev Valeriy Yudin Semyon Kocher	3:05.11	Great Britain John Wilson Alan Pascoe Joe Chivers David Jenkins	3:06.27
High jump	Valentin Gavrilov Soviet Union	2.15	Asko Pesonen Finland	2.13	Paul Poaniewa France	2.09
Pole vault	Yuriy Isakov Soviet Union Antti Kalliomäki Finland	5.30			Mike Bull Great Britain Reinhard Kuretzky West Germany	5.20
Long jump	Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union	8.20w	Hans Baumgartner West Germany	8.12	Max Klauss East Germany	8.03
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev Soviet Union	16.90w	Jörg Drehmel East Germany	16.89	Esa Rinne Finland	16.18
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick East Germany	20.95	Reijo Ståhlberg Finland	20.27	Geoff Capes East Germany	19.80
Discus throw	Pentti Kahma Finland	63.10	Siegfried Pachale East Germany	60.48	Bill Tancred Great Britain	59.06
Hammer throw	Anatoliy Bondarchuk Soviet Union	74.08	Reinhard Theimer East Germany	72.06	Jacques Accambray West Germany	71.90
Javelin throw	Klaus Wolfermann West Germany	90.68	Jānis Lūsis Soviet Union	88.48	Hannu Siitonen Finland	84.08
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: +1.3 m/s)	Renate Stecher East Germany	11.25	Annegret Richter West Germany	11.32	Marina Sidorova Soviet Union	11.40
200 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Renate Stecher East Germany	22.81	Marina Sidorova Soviet Union	22.93	Helen Golden Great Britain	23.14
400 m	Monika Zehrt East Germany	51.75 CR	Lilyana Tomova Bulgaria	52.33	Nadezhda Kolesnikova Soviet Union	52.35
800 m	Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany	1:58.94 CR	Svetla Zlateva Bulgaria	1:59.05	Nijolé Sabaité Soviet Union	2:02.17
1500 m	Tonka Petrova Bulgaria	4:09.02 CR	Karin Krebs East Germany	4:09.37	Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union	4:10.11
100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Annelie Ehrhardt East Germany	12.95 CR	Judy Vernon Great Britain	13.34	Natalya Lebedeva Soviet Union	13.62
4 × 100 m	East Germany Petra Kandarr Renate Stecher Christina Heinich Doris Selmigkeit	42.95 CR	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Annegret Kroniger	43.68	Great Britain Elizabeth Sutherland Helen Golden Judy Vernon Andrea Lynch	44.78
4 × 400 m	East Germany Waltraud Dietsch Renate Siebach Monika Zehrt Rita Kühne	3:28.66 CR	Soviet Union Nina Zyuskova Ingrida Barkane Natalya Kulichkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova	3:30.57	Bulgaria Zdravka Trifonova Lilyana Tomova Stefka Yordanova Svetla Zlateva	3:31.89
High jump	Yordanka Blagoeva Bulgaria	1.84	Rita Kirst East Germany	1.82	Galina Filatova Soviet Union Virginia Ioan Romania Barbara Lawton Great Britain	1.80
Long jump	Angela Schmalfeld East Germany	6.63	Viorica Viscopoleanu Romania	6.39	Ruth Martin-Jones Great Britain	6.30w
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union	20.77 CR	Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria	19.23	Marita Lange East Germany	18.81
Discus throw	Faina Melnik Soviet Union	69.48 WR, CR	Argentina Menis Romania	64.16	Gabriele Hinzmann East Germany	63.76
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs East Germany	66.10 WR, CR	Lyutviyan Mollova Bulgaria	60.30	Ameli Koloska West Germany	55.46
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 4 and 5 August.[2] First two teams advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1
Held in Oslo, Norway

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Soviet Union	98.5
2	Great Britain	80.5
3	Italy	72.5
4	Hungary	62
5	Norway	57.5
6	Belgium	48

Semifinal 2
Held in Celje, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	West Germany	103
2	Finland	88
3	Poland	83.5
4	Yugoslavia	63
5	Switzerland	43
6	Spain	37

Semifinal 3
Held in Nice, Switzerland

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	98.5
2	France	90
3	Czechoslovakia	76
4	Sweden	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	Soviet Union	63
2	Bulgaria	58
3	Poland	55.5
4	Finland	36.5
5	Sweden	33
6	Austria	26

Semifinal 2
Held in Bucharest, Romania

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	East Germany	76
2	Romania	54
3	Hungary	53.5
4	Italy	43
5	Switzerland	24
6	Norway	22.5

Semifinal 3
Held in Sittard, Netherlands

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	West Germany	60
2	Great Britain	57
3	France	50
4	Netherlands	39
5	Yugoslavia	38
6	Czechoslovakia	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	Switzerland	68
2	Yugoslavia	63.5
3	Portugal	37.5
4	Ireland	29

Preliminary 2
Held in Brussels, Belgium

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Norway	105
2	Belgium	90
3	Netherlands	83
4	Denmark	64.5
5	Iceland	42
6	Luxembourg	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	Finland	66
2	Czechoslovakia	62
3	Norway	45
4	Denmark	43
5	Ireland	40
6	Iceland	16

Preliminary 2
Held in Rijeka, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Yugoslavia	67
2	Switzerland	57.5
3	Austria	47.5
4	Belgium	42
5	Spain	35
6	Portugal	24

References

"The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event". european-athletics.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
2010 Italian almanach Archived 28 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine (p466)

External links

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

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[1] "The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event". european-athletics.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2012.

[fidal-2] 2010 Italian almanach Archived 28 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine (p466)

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