# 1970 European Cup (athletics)

The 1970 European Cup was the 3rd edition of the European Cup of athletics.
The Finals were held in Stockholm, Sweden (men) and Budapest, Hungary (women).

## Final

Held on 29 and 30 August in Stockholm (men) and on 22 August (women) in Budapest.

### Team standings

Men :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 102 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 92,5 |
| 3 | West Germany | 91 |
| 4 | Poland | 82 |
| 5 | France | 77,5 |
| 6 | Sweden | 68 |
| 7 | Italy | 47 |
Women :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 70 |
| 2 | West Germany | 63 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 43 |
| 4 | Poland | 35 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 34 |
| 6 | Hungary | 32 |

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

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (Wind: +1.0 m/s) | Zenon Nowosz Poland | 10.4 | Siegfried Schenke East Germany | 10.5 | Gerhard Wucherer West Germany | 10.5 |
| 200 m (Wind: +5.8 m/s) | Siegfried Schenke East Germany | 20.7w | Jochen Eigenherr West Germany | 20.9w | Zenon Nowosz Poland | 21.0w |
| 400 m | Jan Werner Poland | 45.9 | Jean-Claude Nallet France | 46.3 | Boris Savchuk Soviet Union | 46.7 |
| 800 m | Yevgeniy Arzhanov Soviet Union | 1:47.8 | Franz-Josef Kemper West Germany | 1:48.6 | Andrzej Kupczyk Poland | 1:48.7 |
| 1500 m | Franco Arese Italy | 3:42.3 | Henryk Szordykowski Poland | 3:42.5 | Jean Wadoux France | 3:42.6 |
| 5000 m | Harald Norpoth West Germany | 14:25.4 | Gerd Eisenberg East Germany | 14:25.6 | Rashid Sharafetdinov Soviet Union | 14:25.8 |
| 10,000 m | Jürgen Haase East Germany | 28:26.8 CR | Nikolay Sviridov Soviet Union | 28:29.2 | Manfred Letzerich West Germany | 28:40.0 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Vladimir Dudin Soviet Union | 8:31.6 CR | Ulrich Holbeck East Germany | 8:36.0 | Kazimierz Maranda Poland | 8:38.0 |
| 110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.5 m/s) | Guy Drut France | 13.7 CR | Bo Forssander Sweden | 14.0 | Günther Nickel West Germany | 14.0 |
| 400 m hurdles | Jean-Claude Nallet France | 50.1 CR | Werner Reibert West Germany | 51.0 | Dmitriy Stukalov Soviet Union | 51.2 |
| 4 × 100 m | East Germany Hans-Jürgen Bombach Joachim Walther Hermann Burde Harald Eggers | 39.4 | Poland Stanisław Wagner Tadeusz Cuch Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz | 39.5 | West Germany Günther Nickel Jochen Eigenherr Gerhard Wucherer Josef Schwarz | 39.6 |
| 4 × 400 m | Poland Jan Werner Edmund Borowski Jan Balachowski Andrzej Badeński | 3:05.1 | Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko Yuriy Zorin Boris Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov | 3:06.3 | East Germany Rainer Friedrich Andreas Scheibe Michael Zerbes Wolfgang Müller | 3:07.1 |
| High jump | Kenneth Lundmark Sweden | 2.15 CR | Valentin Gavrilov Soviet Union Gérard Lamy France | 2.13 | | |
| Pole vault | Wolfgang Nordwig East Germany | 5.35 CR | Renato Dionisi Italy | 5.20 | François Tracanelli France | 5.15 |
| Long jump | Jack Pani France | 8.09 | Klaus Beer East Germany | 8.07 | Josef Schwarz West Germany | 7.99 |
| Triple jump | Jörg Drehmel East Germany | 17.13 CR | Viktor Sanyeyev Soviet Union | 17.01 | Józef Schmidt Poland | 16.65 |
| Shot put | Hartmut Briesenick East Germany | 20.55 | Heinfried Birlenbach West Germany | 19.54 | Pierre Colnard France | 19.44 |
| Discus throw | Ricky Bruch Sweden | 64.86 CR | Hein-Direck Neu West Germany | 61.40 | Vladimir Lyakhov Soviet Union | 59.26 |
| Hammer throw | Anatoliy Bondarchuk Soviet Union | 70.46 | Uwe Beyer West Germany | 69.46 | Reinhard Theimer East Germany | 69.32 |
| Javelin throw | Władysław Nikiciuk Poland | 82.46 | Jānis Lūsis Soviet Union | 81.74 | Klaus Wolfermann West Germany | 80.90 |
| 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: +0.3 m/s) | Ingrid Mickler West Germany | 11.3 | Renate Meissner East Germany | 11.4 | Györgyi Balogh Hungary | 11.6 |
| 200 m (Wind: +0.2 m/s) | Renate Meissner East Germany | 23.1 | Ingrid Mickler West Germany | 23.3 | Györgyi Balogh Hungary | 23.3 |
| 400 m | Helga Fischer East Germany | 53.2 CR | Christel Frese West Germany | 54.1 | Vera Popkova Soviet Union | 54.0 |
| 800 m | Hildegard Janze West Germany | 2:04.9 | Sheila Carey Great Britain | 2:05.3 | Barbara Wieck East Germany | 2:05.4 |
| 1500 m | Ellen Tittel West Germany | 4:16.3 | Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany | 4:16.5 | Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union | 4:17.2 |
| 100 m hurdles (Wind: -0.4 m/s) | Karin Balzer East Germany | 13.1 | Teresa Sukniewicz Poland | 13.2 | Margit Bach West Germany | 13.7 |
| 4 × 100 m | West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Annelie Wilden Rita Jahn Ingrid Mickler | 43.9 CR | East Germany Renate Meissner Christina Heinich Bärbel Schrickel Marion Wagner | 44.5 | Hungary Erzsébet Bartos Judit Szabó Györgyi Balogh Katalin Papp | 44.8 |
| 4 × 400 m | East Germany Helga Fischer Renate Marder Brigitte Rohde Monika Zehrt | 3:37.0 | West Germany Christel Frese Christa Czekay Inge Eckhoff Heidi Gerhard | 3:37.2 | Great Britain Rosemary Stirling Maureen Tranter Val Peat Helen Golden | 3:37.8 |
| High jump | Rita Schmidt East Germany | 1.84 CR | Antonina Lazareva Soviet Union | 1.84 CR | Karen Mack West Germany | 1.76 |
| Long jump | Heide Rosendahl West Germany | 6.80 NR, CR | Ann Wilson Great Britain | 6.57w | Margrit Herbst East Germany | 6.44 |
| Shot put | Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union | 19.42 | Hannelore Friedel East Germany | 18.01 | Ludwika Chewińska Poland | 17.01 |
| Discus throw | Karin Illgen East Germany | 61.60 CR | Liesel Westermann West Germany | 61.44 | Tamara Danilova Soviet Union | 57.84 |
| Javelin throw | Ruth Fuchs East Germany | 60.60 CR | Daniela Jaworska Poland | 55.90 | Marite Saulite Soviet Union | 54.52 |
| 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) |||||| |

## Semifinals
### Men

All semifinals were held on 1 and 2 August. First two teams advanced to the final. Sweden advanced as the host of the final.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | West Germany | 97 |
| 2 | Italy | 82.5 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 76 |
| 4 | Hungary | 65.5 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 58 |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 40 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 99 |
| 2 | Poland | 92 |
| 3 | Finland | 81 |
| 4 | Sweden | 65 |
| 5 | Norway | 48 |
| 6 | Belgium | 35 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | France | 97 |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 97 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 68 |
| 4 | Spain | 60 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 55 |
| 6 | Romania | 42 |

### Women

All semifinals were held on 22 August. First two teams advanced to the final.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 84 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 73 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 58 |
| 4 | France | 55 |
| 5 | Denmark | 34 |
| 6 | Finland | 32 |
| 7 | Norway | 28 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | West Germany | 74 |
| 2 | Hungary | 52 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 48 |
| 4 | Sweden | 46 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 32 |
| 6 | Belgium | 21 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 79 |
| 2 | Poland | 71 |
| 3 | Romania | 66 |
| 4 | Italy | 47 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 38 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 35 |
| 7 | Austria | 28 |

## Preliminaries
### Men

All preliminaries were held on 20–21 June. First two teams advanced to the semifinals.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Spain | 64 |
| 2 | Romania | 50 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 44 |
| 4 | Greece | 41 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Yugoslavia | 68 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 59 |
| 3 | Austria | 47 |
| 4 | Luxembourg | 23 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Finland | 81 |
| 2 | Belgium | 69 |
| 3 | Denmark | 60 |
| 4 | Ireland | 53 |
| 5 | Iceland | 37 |