The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 7 and 8 September 1974. The third-placed Finnish team was initially disqualified over Markku Kukkoaho's use of his elbows at the start of the anchor leg, but Finland launched a successful counter-protest and kept the bronze medals.
8 September
7 September
Heat 1Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Finland | Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho |
3:04.6 | Q |
2 | Great Britain | Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins |
3:04.7 | Q |
3 | France | Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Vélasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon |
3:05.3 | Q |
4 | Netherlands | Raymond Heerenveen Rijn van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg |
3:06.28 | Q |
5 | Italy | Flavio Borghi Alfonso di Guida Lorenzo Cellerino Marcello Fiasconaro |
3:08.5 | |
6 | Yugoslavia | Ivica Ivičak Milorad Čikić Josip Alebić Luciano Sušanj |
3:37.8 |
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Soviet Union | Valeriy Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Semyon Kocher |
3:05.3 | Q |
2 | Sweden | Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson |
3:05.5 | Q |
3 | East Germany | Reinhard Kokot Benno Stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe |
3:05.8 | Q |
4 | West Germany | Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Bernd Herrmann |
3:05.8 | Q |
5 | Czechoslovakia | Ivan Daniš František Štross Miroslav Tulis Miroslav Kodejš |
3:06.29 |
According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.
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