1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Events at the 1974 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men
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The men's 200 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Roma, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 4 and 6 September 1974.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Pietro Mennea  Italy
Silver	Manfred Ommer  West Germany
Bronze	Hans-Jürgen Bombach  East Germany

Results

Final

6 September Wind: -0.8m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.60
02 !	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	20.76
03 !	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	20.83
4	Joseph Arame	France	20.87
5	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	20.93
6	Bruno Cherrier	France	21.02
7	Ainsley Bennett	United Kingdom	21.29
8	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	DNS

Semi-finals

6 September

Semi-final 1

Wind: -1.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	20.81	Q
2	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	20.92	Q
3	Bruno Cherrier	France	20.94	Q
4	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	20.97	Q
5	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.11
6	Philippe Leroux	France	21.22
7	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.26
8	Chris Monk	United Kingdom	21.32

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.83	Q
2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	21.09	Q
3	Joseph Arame	France	21.16	Q
4	Ainsley Bennett	United Kingdom	21.23	Q
5	Raymond Heerenveen	Netherlands	21.44
6	Hans-Joachim Zenk	East Germany	21.46
7	Steve Green	United Kingdom	21.52
8	Peter Muster	Switzerland	77.41

Heats

4 September

Heat 1

Wind: -0.1m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bruno Cherrier	France	20.96	Q
2	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.11	Q
3	Raymond Heerenveen	Netherlands	21.24	Q
4	Chris Monk	United Kingdom	21.25	q
5	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	21.36
6	Robert Tempel	West Germany	21.51
7	Marek Bedyński	Poland	21.53

Heat 2

Wind: -2.4m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.04	Q
2	Joseph Arame	France	21.09	Q
3	Ainsley Bennett	United Kingdom	21.13	Q
4	Marian Woronin	Poland	21.60

Heat 3

Wind: 0.3m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	21.23	Q
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.24	Q
3	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.41	Q
4	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.49
5	Tibor Farkas	Hungary	22.06

Heat 4

Wind: 1.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Joachim Zenk	East Germany	21.30	Q
2	Philippe Leroux	France	21.40	Q
3	Steve Green	United Kingdom	21.54	Q
4	Luis Sarria	Spain	21.54
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.67
6	Marian Kralik	Czechoslovakia	21.67

Heat 5

Wind: 1.4m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	21.03	Q
2	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.34	Q
3	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	21.48	Q
4	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	21.54
5	Miguel Arnau	Spain	21.72
6	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	22.38

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

References