# 1975 European Cup (athletics)

The 1975 European Cup was the 5th edition of the European Cup of athletics.
The Finals were held in Nice, France.

## Final

Held in Nice on 16 and 17 August for both men and women.

### Team standings

Men :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 112 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 109 |
| 3 | Poland | 100 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 83 |
| 5 | West Germany | 83 |
| 6 | Finland | 83 |
| 7 | France | 80 |
| 8 | Italy | 68 |
Women :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 97 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 77 |
| 3 | West Germany | 64 |
| 4 | Poland | 57 |
| 5 | Romania | 52 |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 47 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 39 |
| 8 | France | 35 |

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

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (Wind: -0.7 m/s) | Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union | 10.40 | Pietro Mennea Italy | 10.40 | Alexander Thieme East Germany | 10.53 |
| 200 m (Wind: -0.9 m/s) | Pietro Mennea Italy | 20.42 CR | Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union | 20.61 | Antti Rajamäki Finland | 20.97 |
| 400 m | David Jenkins Great Britain | 45.52 | Markku Kukkoaho Finland | 45.56 | Jerzy Pietrzyk Poland | 45.67 |
| 800 m | Steve Ovett Great Britain | 1:46.56 | Dieter Fromm East Germany | 1:47.36 | Vladimir Ponomaryov Soviet Union | 1:47.64 |
| 1500 m | Thomas Wessinghage West Germany | 3:39.1a | Bronisław Malinowski Poland | 3:39.8a | Frank Clement Great Britain | 3:40.1a |
| 5000 m | Brendan Foster Great Britain | 13:36.18 CR | Enn Sellik Soviet Union | 13:42.8a | Manfred Kuschmann East Germany | 13:44.78 |
| 10,000 m | Karl-Heinz Leiteritz East Germany | 28:37.2a | Dave Black Great Britain | 28:42.2a | Giuseppe Cindolo Italy | 28:48.0a |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Michael Karst West Germany | 8:16.4a | Frank Baumgartl East Germany | 8:17.6a | Bronisław Malinowski Poland | 8:18.6a |
| 110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.4 m/s) | Guy Drut France | 13.57 CR | Thomas Munkelt East Germany | 13.78 | Viktor Myasnikov Soviet Union | 13.88 |
| 400 m hurdles | Alan Pascoe Great Britain | 49.00 CR | Jean-Claude Nallet France | 49.38 | Jerzy Hewelt Poland | 50.59 |
| 4 × 100 m | East Germany Hans-Joachim Zenk Thomas Munkelt Hans-Jürgen Bombach Alexander Thieme | 38.98 CR | Soviet Union Aleksandr Kornelyuk Nikolay Kolesnikov Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov | 39.00 | Italy Vincenzo Guerini Luciano Caravani Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea | 39.32 |
| 4 × 400 m | Great Britain Glen Cohen Jim Aukett Bill Hartley David Jenkins | 3:02.9a | West Germany Franz-Peter Hofmeister Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Lothar Krieg Bernd Herrmann | 3:03.4a | Finland Juhani Tiihonen Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho | 3:04.1a |
| High jump | Aleksandr Grigoryev Soviet Union | 2.24 CR | Paul Poaniewa France | 2.22 | Rolf Beilschmidt East Germany | 2.20 |
| Pole vault | Władysław Kozakiewicz Poland | 5.45 | Antti Kalliomäki Finland | 5.40 | Yuriy Isakov Soviet Union | 5.40 |
| Long jump | Grzegorz Cybulski Poland | 8.15 CR | Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union | 7.92 | Peter Rieger East Germany | 7.70 |
| Triple jump | Viktor Sanyeyev Soviet Union | 16.97 | Christian Valétudié France | 16.70 | Andrzej Sontag Poland | 16.32 |
| Shot put | Geoff Capes Great Britain | 20.75 | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg East Germany | 20.33 | Valeriy Voykin Soviet Union | 19.47 |
| Discus throw | Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany | 63.16 | Pentti Kahma Finland | 62.70 | Hein-Direck Neu West Germany | 62.20 |
| Hammer throw | Karl-Hans Riehm West Germany | 77.50 CR | Valentin Dmitrenko Soviet Union | 77.22 | Jochen Sachse East Germany | 76.04 |
| Javelin throw | Nikolay Grebnyev Soviet Union | 84.30 | Piotr Bielczyk Poland | 82.00 | Seppo Hovinen Finland | 81.02 |
| 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: -0.5 m/s) | Renate Stecher East Germany | 11.29 | Andrea Lynch Great Britain | 11.37 | Irena Szewińska Poland | 11.41 |
| 200 m (Wind: -0.8 m/s) | Renate Stecher East Germany | 22.63 CR | Irena Szewińska Poland | 22.84 | Annegret Richter West Germany | 23.28 |
| 400 m | Irena Szewińska Poland | 50.50 CR | Ellen Streidt East Germany | 50.61 | Donna Murray Great Britain | 51.30 |
| 800 m | Mariana Suman Romania | 2:00.6a | Ulrike Klapezynski East Germany | 2:00.7a | Lilyana Tomova Bulgaria | 2:01.1a |
| 1500 m | Waltraud Strotzer East Germany | 4:08.0a | Natalia Andrei Romania | 4:08.4a | Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union | 4:08.9a |
| 100 m hurdles (Wind: -0.3 m/s) | Annelie Ehrhardt East Germany | 12.83 CR | Grażyna Rabsztyn Poland | 12.85 | Natalya Lebedeva Soviet Union | 12.93 |
| 4 × 100 m | East Germany Monika Meyer Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Sybille Priebsch | 42.81 CR | Soviet Union Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Lyudmila Maslakova Svetlana Belova Vera Anisimova | 43.19 | West Germany Inge Helten Annegret Kroniger Annegret Richter Brigit Wilkes | 43.58 |
| 4 × 400 m | East Germany Brigitte Rohde Gisela Anton Rita Kühne Ellen Streidt | 3:24.0a CR | Great Britain Jannette Roscoe Gladys Taylor Verona Elder Donna Murray | 3:26.6a | Soviet Union Inta Kļimoviča Larisa Golovanova Ingrida Barkane Nadezhda Ilyina | 3:27.0a |
| High jump | Rosemarie Ackermann East Germany | 1.94 | Ulrike Meyfarth West Germany | 1.92 | Virginia Ioan Romania | 1.86 |
| Long jump | Lidiya Alfeyeva Soviet Union | 6.76 | Christa Striezel West Germany | 6.56 | Jacqueline Curtet France | 6.36 |
| Shot put | Marianne Adam East Germany | 21.32 CR | Svetlana Krachevskaya Soviet Union | 20.53 | Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria | 20.24 |
| Discus throw | Faina Melnik Soviet Union | 66.54 | Gabriele Hinzmann East Germany | 64.72 | Argentina Menis Romania | 63.60 |
| Javelin throw | Ruth Fuchs East Germany | 64.80 | Svetlana Babich Soviet Union | 61.88 | Lyutviyan Mollova Bulgaria | 58.36 |
| 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 12 and 13 July.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | West Germany | 101 |
| 2 | Italy | 83 |
| 3 | Romania | 65 |
| 4 | Hungary | 62 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 61 |
| 6 | Belgium | 47 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Poland | 92 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 91 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 80 |
| 4 | Sweden | 68 |
| 5 | Spain | 49 |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 38 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 98 |
| 2 | Finland | 89 |
| 3 | France | 71.5 |
| 4 | Yugoslavia | 61.5 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 55 |
| 6 | Greece | 43 |

### Women

All semifinals were held on 12 July.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Poland | 63 |
| 2 | West Germany | 63 |
| 3 | Finland | 48 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | 44 |
| 5 | Italy | 33 |
| 6 | Denmark | 21 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 77 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 54 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 53 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 32 |
| 5 | Sweden | 31 |
| 6 | Yugoslavia | 26 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 68 |
| 2 | Romania | 50 |
| 3 | Hungary | 46 |
| 4 | France | 37 |
| 5 | Austria | 36 |
| 6 | Belgium | 34 |

## Preliminaries
### Men

All preliminaries were held on 14 and 15 June. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Spain | 114 |
| 2 | Switzerland | 110 |
| 3 | Belgium | 93 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 88 |
| 5 | Portugal | 65 |
| 6 | Iceland | 46 |
| 7 | Ireland | 43 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Romania | 94 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 92 |
| 3 | Greece | 90 |
| 4 | Norway | 59 |
| 5 | Austria | 47 |
| 6 | Denmark | 45 |

### Women

All preliminaries were held on 14 June. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Czechoslovakia | 63 |
| 2 | Belgium | 57 |
| 3 | Sweden | 52 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 52 |
| 5 | Spain | 28 |
| 6 | Portugal | 20 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Yugoslavia | 50 |
| 2 | Austria | 45 |
| 3 | Denmark | 41 |
| 4 | Ireland | 31 |
| 5 | Greece | 27 |