# 1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 3 and 4 September 1974.

## Medalists

| Gold | Alan Pascoe Great Britain |
| Silver | Jean-Claude Nallet France |
| Bronze | Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Soviet Union |

## Results
### Final

4 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Alan Pascoe | Great Britain | 48.82 | CR |
| | Jean-Claude Nallet | France | 48.94 | |
| | Yevgeniy Gavrilenko | Soviet Union | 49.32 | |
| 4 | Stavros Tziortzis | Greece | 49.71 | |
| 5 | Dmitriy Stukalov | Soviet Union | 49.98 | |
| 6 | Viktor Savchenko | Soviet Union | 50.01 | |
| 7 | Jerzy Hewelt | Poland | 50.26 | |
| 8 | Rolf Ziegler | West Germany | 50.49 | |

### Semi-finals

3 September

#### Semi-final 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Dmitriy Stukalov | Soviet Union | 49.67 | Q |
| 2 | Alan Pascoe | Great Britain | 49.77 | Q |
| 3 | Stavros Tziortzis | Greece | 49.79 | Q |
| 4 | Rolf Ziegler | West Germany | 49.87 | Q |
| 5 | Miroslav Kodejš | Czechoslovakia | 49.93 | |
| 6 | François Aumas | Switzerland | 50.46 | |
| 7 | Yanko Bratanov | Bulgaria | 50.66 | NR |
| 8 | Jochen Mayer | East Germany | 50.71 | |

#### Semi-final 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yevgeniy Gavrilenko | Soviet Union | 49.63 | Q |
| 2 | Jerzy Hewelt | Poland | 49.79 | NR Q |
| 3 | Jean-Claude Nallet | France | 49.79 | Q |
| 4 | Viktor Savchenko | Soviet Union | 49.88 | Q |
| 5 | Klaus Schönberger | East Germany | 50.04 | |
| 6 | Bill Hartley | Great Britain | 50.55 | |
| 7 | Frank Nusse | Netherlands | 51.14 | |
| 8 | Ivan Daniš | Czechoslovakia | 53.28 | |

### Heats

3 September

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Miroslav Kodejš | Czechoslovakia | 50.31 | Q |
| 2 | Viktor Savchenko | Soviet Union | 50.36 | Q |
| 3 | Bill Hartley | Great Britain | 50.42 | Q |
| 4 | François Aumas | Switzerland | 50.50 | q |
| 5 | Yanko Bratanov | Bulgaria | 51.02 | q |
| 6 | Georgios Parris | Greece | 51.44 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Dmitriy Stukalov | Soviet Union | 50.48 | Q |
| 2 | Jerzy Hewelt | Poland | 50.54 | Q |
| 3 | Klaus Schönberger | East Germany | 50.60 | Q |
| 4 | Frank Nusse | Netherlands | 50.73 | NR q |
| 5 | José Carvalho | Portugal | 51.32 | |
| 6 | Giorgio Ballati | Italy | 51.47 | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jean-Claude Nallet | France | 50.16 | Q |
| 2 | Jochen Mayer | East Germany | 50.88 | Q |
| 3 | Ivan Daniš | Czechoslovakia | 51.09 | Q |
| 4 | Werner Reibert | West Germany | 51.18 | |
| 5 | Steve Black | Great Britain | 51.19 | |
| 6 | Yordan Yordanov | Bulgaria | 52.05 | |
| 7 | Gert Möller | Sweden | 52.72 | |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yevgeniy Gavrilenko | Soviet Union | 50.28 | Q |
| 2 | Rolf Ziegler | West Germany | 50.35 | Q |
| 3 | Alan Pascoe | Great Britain | 50.54 | Q |
| 4 | Stavros Tziortzis | Greece | 50.65 | q |
| 5 | Jan Struyk | Netherlands | 51.83 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.
* Bulgaria (2)
* Czechoslovakia (2)
* East Germany (2)
* France (1)
* Greece (2)
* Italy (1)
* Netherlands (2)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (1)
* Soviet Union (3)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (1)
* Great Britain (3)
* West Germany (2)