# 1977 European Cup (athletics)

The 1977 European Cup was the 6th edition of the European Cup of athletics.
It was the first edition to introduce "A" and "B" Finals. The three best non-qualifying teams in the Semifinals would now compete in the "B" Final, the winner of which would qualify for the "A" Final.
The "A" Finals were held in Helsinki, Finland. The first two teams in those qualified for the inaugural IAAF World Cup.

## "A" Final

Held in Helsinki on 13 and 14 August for both men and women.

### Team standings

Men :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 125 |
| 2 | West Germany | 113 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 100 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 95 |
| 5 | Poland | 93 |
| 6 | France | 70 |
| 7 | Finland | 66 |
| 8 | Italy | 54 |
Women :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 106 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 94 |
| 3 | West Germany | 68 |
| | Great Britain | 68 |
| 5 | Poland | 58 |
| 6 | Romania | 55 |
| 7 | Bulgaria | 53 |
| 8 | Finland | 36 |

### Results summary
#### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (Wind: 0.0 m/s) | Eugen Ray East Germany | 10.12 NR, CR | Pietro Mennea Italy | 10.29 | Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union | 10.33 |
| 200 m (Wind: -1.2 m/s) | Eugen Ray East Germany | 20.86 | Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union | 21.10 | Ainsley Bennett Great Britain | 21.27 |
| 400 m | Bernd Herrmann West Germany | 45.92 | Ryszard Podlas Poland | 46.00 | Francis Demarthon France | 46.38 |
| 800 m | Willi Wülbeck West Germany | 1:47.21 | Olaf Beyer East Germany | 1:47.27 | José Marajo France | 1:47.49 |
| 1500 m | Steve Ovett Great Britain | 3:44.94 | Thomas Wessinghage West Germany | 3:45.38 | Ari Paunonen Finland | 3:45.90 |
| 5000 m | Nick Rose Great Britain | 13:27.84 CR | Enn Sellik Soviet Union | 13:29.20 | Karl Fleschen West Germany | 13:29.44 |
| 10,000 m | Jörg Peter East Germany | 27:55.50 CR | Detlef Uhlemann West Germany | 27:58.79 | Leonid Moseyev Soviet Union | 28:03.60 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Michael Karst West Germany | 8:27.87 | Frank Baumgartl East Germany | 8:31.53 | Tapio Kantanen Finland | 8:33.27 |
| 110 m hurdles (Wind: +2.0 m/s) | Thomas Munkelt East Germany | 13.37 CR | Jan Pusty Poland | 13.60 | Eduard Pereverzev Soviet Union | 13.63 |
| 400 m hurdles | Volker Beck East Germany | 48.90 CR | Harald Schmid West Germany | 49.27 | Alan Pascoe Great Britain | 49.65 |
| 4 × 100 m | East Germany Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Detlef Kübeck Alexander Thieme | 38.84 CR | Soviet Union Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov | 39.27 | Poland Andrzej Świerczyński Zenon Licznerski Zenon Nowosz Leszek Dunecki | 39.74 |
| 4 × 400 m | West Germany Lothar Krieg Harald Schmid Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann | 3:02.66 CR | East Germany Reinhard Kokot Jürgen Pfennig Günter Arnold Volker Beck | 3:03.23 | Poland Cezary Łapiński Henryk Galant Jerzy Pietrzyk Ryszard Podlas | 3:03.83 |
| High jump | Rolf Beilschmidt East Germany | 2.31 CR | Jacek Wszoła Poland | 2.28 | Aleksandr Grigoryev Soviet Union | 2.20 |
| Pole vault | Władysław Kozakiewicz Poland | 5.60 CR | Antti Kalliomäki Finland | 5.35 | Günther Lohre West Germany | 5.30 |
| Long jump | Jacques Rousseau France | 8.05 | Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union | 7.94 | Roy Mitchell Great Britain | 7.94 |
| Triple jump | Anatoliy Piskulin Soviet Union | 17.09w | Pentti Kuukasjärvi Finland | 16.32 | Eugeniusz Biskupski Poland | 16.19 |
| Shot put | Udo Beyer East Germany | 21.65 CR | Reijo Ståhlberg Finland | 20.90 | Ralf Reichenbach West Germany | 20.42 |
| Discus throw | Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany | 66.86 CR | Nikolay Vikhor Soviet Union | 61.50 | Stanisław Wołodko Poland | 61.20 |
| Hammer throw | Karl-Hans Riehm West Germany | 75.90 | Jochen Sachse East Germany | 74.60 | Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union | 73.60 |
| Javelin throw | Nikolay Grebnyev Soviet Union | 87.18 | Piotr Bielczyk Poland | 79.62 | Michael Wessing West Germany | 79.56 |
| 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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (Wind: +1.0 m/s) | Marlies Oelsner East Germany | 11.07 CR | Sonia Lannaman Great Britain | 11.22 | Irena Szewińska Poland | 11.26 |
| 200 m (Wind: -0.8 m/s) | Irena Szewińska Poland | 22.71 | Sonia Lannaman Great Britain | 22.83 | Bärbel Eckert East Germany | 22.99 |
| 400 m | Marita Koch East Germany | 49.53 CR | Marina Sidorova Soviet Union | 51.20 | Donna Hartley Great Britain | 51.62 |
| 800 m | Christina Liebetrau East Germany | 2:00.17 | Totka Petrova Bulgaria | 2:00.18 | Svetlana Styrkina Soviet Union | 2:00.96 |
| 1500 m | Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union | 4:04.35 CR | Ulrike Bruns East Germany | 4:04.52 | Natalia Mărășescu Romania | 4:05.08 |
| 3000 m | Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union | 8:49.86 | Maricica Puica Romania | 8:50.96 | Gabriele Meinel East Germany | 8:53.91 |
| 100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s) | Johanna Klier East Germany | 12.83 | Natalya Lebedeva Soviet Union | 13.08 | Bożena Nowakowska Poland | 13.29 |
| 400 m hurdles | Karin Rossley East Germany | 55.63 WR | Tatyana Storosheva Soviet Union | 56.84 | Krystyna Kacperczyk Poland | 57.01 |
| 4 × 100 m | East Germany Monika Hamann Romy Schneider Ingrid Brestrich Marlies Oelsner | 42.62 CR | Soviet Union Tatyana Prorochenko Lyudmila Maslakova Marina Sidorova Lyudmila Storozhkova | 43.43 | West Germany Elvira Possekel Dagmar Schenten Petra Sharp Annegret Richter | 43.72 |
| 4 × 400 m | East Germany Bettina Popp Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch | 3:23.70 CR | Soviet Union Lyudmila Aksenova Svetlana Styrkina Tatyana Prorochenko Natalya Sokolova | 3:26.62 | Poland Krystyna Kacperczyk Elżbieta Katolik Barbara Kwietniewska Irena Szewińska | 3:27.76 |
| High jump | Rosemarie Ackermann East Germany | 1.97 WR, CR | Brigitte Holzapfel West Germany | 1.88 | Cornelia Popa Romania | 1.84 |
| Long jump | Brigitte Künzel East Germany | 6.76 | Christa Striezel West Germany | 6.39 | Sue Reeve Great Britain | 6.35 |
| Shot put | Eva Wilms West Germany | 20.01 | Svetlana Krachevskaya Soviet Union | 19.76 | Radostina Bakhchevanova Bulgaria | 17.75 |
| Discus throw | Faina Veleva Soviet Union | 68.08 | Sabine Engel East Germany | 65.60 | Argentina Menis Romania | 62.22 |
| Javelin throw | Ruth Fuchs East Germany | 68.92 CR | Tessa Sanderson Great Britain | 62.36 | Nadezhda Yakubovich Soviet Union | 61.84 |
| 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) |||||| |

## "B" Final

The winners qualified for the "A" final.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | France | 115 |
| 2 | Sweden | 108 |
| 3 | Romania | 94 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | 92 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 88 |
| 6 | Yugoslavia | 87 |
| 7 | Hungary | 78 |
| 8 | Bulgaria | 57 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Bulgaria | 98 |
| 2 | Italy | 83 |
| 3 | France | 79 |
| 4 | Hungary | 76 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 75 |
| 6 | Belgium | 63 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 38 |
| 8 | Austria | 27 |

## Semifinals
### Men

All semifinals were held on 16 and 17 July. First two teams qualified for the "A" final (plus Finland as the host). Places 3–5 qualified for the "B" final.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 132 |
| 2 | Italy | 117 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 109 |
| 4 | Finland | 98 |
| 5 | Hungary | 86 |
| 6 | Greece | 77 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 59 |
| 8 | Denmark | 38 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | West Germany | 142 |
| 2 | Poland | 133 |
| 3 | Romania | 99 |
| 4 | Bulgaria | 87 |
| 5 | Sweden | 77 |
| 6 | Spain | 70 |
| 7 | Norway | 65 |
| 8 | Portugal | 45 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 129 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 126 |
| 3 | France | 120 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 90 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 83 |
| 6 | Belgium | 78 |
| 7 | Austria | 54 |
| 8 | Ireland | 39 |

### Women

All semifinals were held on 16 July. First two teams qualified for the "A" final (plus Finland as the host). Places 3–5 qualified for the "B" final.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Poland | 100 |
| 2 | West Germany | 92 |
| 3 | Hungary | 77 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | 65 |
| 5 | Belgium | 63 |
| 6 | Sweden | 59 |
| 7 | Norway | 45 |
| 8 | Spain | 36 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 114 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 106 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 91 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 63 |
| 5 | Austria | 55 |
| 6 | Ireland | 48 |
| 7 | Denmark | 46 |
| 8 | Iceland | 21 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 106 |
| 2 | Romania | 99 |
| 3 | Italy | 84 |
| 4 | France | 77 |
| 5 | Finland | 65 |
| 6 | Yugoslavia | 46 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 42 |
| 8 | Portugal | 17 |

## Preliminaries

Preliminaries were held in Søllerød, Denmark, on 25 and 26 June for both men and women. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.
Men :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Portugal | 74 |
| 2 | Ireland | 65 |
| 3 | Denmark | 64 |
| 4 | Iceland | 54 |
| 5 | Luxembourg | 43 |
Women :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Norway | 49 |
| 2 | Portugal | 35 |
| 3 | Iceland | 34 |
| 4 | Greece | 31 |