# 1974 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1974 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 9 and 10 March 1974 in Gothenburg, Sweden at the Scandinavium.
The track used for the championships was 196 metres long.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 6.58 CR | Manfred Kokot (GDR) | 6.63 | Aleksandr Kornelyuk (URS) | 6.66 |
| 400 metres details | Fons Brijdenbach (BEL) | 46.60 | Andreas Scheibe (GDR) | 46.80 | Günter Arnold (GDR) | 46.94 |
| 800 metres details | Luciano Sušanj (YUG) | 1:48.07 | András Zsinka (HUN) | 1:48.50 | Jozef Plachý (TCH) | 1:49.49 |
| 1500 metres details | Henryk Szordykowski (POL) | 3:41.78 | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:42.02 | Włodzimierz Staszak (POL) | 3:43.48 |
| 3000 metres details | Emiel Puttemans (BEL) | 7:48.48 | Paul Thijs (BEL) | 7:51.76 | Pavel Pěnkava (TCH) | 7:51.79 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS) | 7.66 WR | Mirosław Wodzyński (POL) | 7.68 | Frank Siebeck (GDR) | 7.75 |
| 4 × 392 metres relay details | Sweden Michael Fredriksson Gert Möller Anders Faager Dimitre Grama | 3:04.55 | France Pierre Bonvin Patrick Salvador Roger Vélazquez Lionel Malingre | 3:05.46 | Only two starting teams | Only two starting teams |
| High jump details | Kęstutis Šapka (URS) | 2.22 | István Major (HUN) | 2.20 | Vladimír Malý (TCH) | 2.17 |
| Pole vault details | Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL) | 5.35 | Antti Kalliomäki (FIN) | 5.30 | Jānis Lauris (URS) | 5.30 |
| Long jump details | Jean-François Bonhème (FRA) | 8.17 | Hans Baumgartner (FRG) | 8.10 | Max Klauss (GDR) | 8.03 |
| Triple jump details | Michał Joachimowski (POL) | 17.03 WR | Mikhail Bariban (URS) | 16.88 | Bernard Lamitié (FRA) | 16.56 |
| Shot put details | Geoff Capes (GBR) | 20.95 AR CR | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR) | 20.87 | Jaroslav Brabec (TCH) | 19.87 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Renate Stecher (GDR) | 7.16 WR | Andrea Lynch (GBR) | 7.17 | Irena Szewińska (POL) | 7.20 |
| 400 metres details | Jelica Pavličić (YUG) | 52.64 CR | Nadezhda Ilyina (URS) | 52.81 | Waltraud Dietsch (GDR) | 52.84 |
| 800 metres details | Elżbieta Katolik (POL) | 2:02.38 AR CR | Gisela Ellenberger (FRG) | 2:02.54 | Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR) | 2:02.59 |
| 1500 metres details | Tonka Petrova (BUL) | 4:10.97 WR | Karin Krebs (GDR) | 4:11.33 | Tamara Kazachkova (URS) | 4:14.45 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Annerose Fiedler (GDR) | 8.08 | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 8.08 | Meta Antenen (SUI) | 8.19 |
| 4 × 392 metres relay details | Sweden Ann-Charlotte Hesse Lena Fritzson Ann-Margret Utterberg Ann Larsson | 3:38.15 | Bulgaria Lilyana Tomova Sonya Zachariyeva Yordanka Filipova Tonka Petrova | 3:39.21 | Only two starting teams | Only two starting teams |
| High jump details | Rosemarie Witschas (GDR) | 1.90 | Milada Karbanová (TCH) | 1.88 | Rita Kirst (GDR) | 1.88 |
| Long jump details | Meta Antenen (SUI) | 6.69 NR | Angela Schmalfeld (GDR) | 6.56 | Valeria Ștefănescu (ROM) | 6.39 |
| Shot put details | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 20.75 WR | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 20.62 | Marianne Adam (GDR) | 19.70 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Poland (POL) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Belgium (BEL) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 21 | 21 | 19 | 61 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (2)
* Belgium (6)
* Bulgaria (11)
* Czechoslovakia (15)
* Denmark (5)
* East Germany (28)
* Finland (6)
* France (20)
* Great Britain (10)
* Greece (7)
* Hungary (7)
* Iceland (1)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (11)
* Luxembourg (1)
* Netherlands (8)
* Norway (6)
* Poland (21)
* Romania (10)
* Soviet Union (31)
* Spain (7)
* Sweden (23)
* Switzerland (3)
* West Germany (21)
* Yugoslavia (2)