# 1973 European Cup (athletics)

The 1973 European Cup was the 4th edition of the European Cup of athletics.
The Finals were held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

## Final

Held in Edinburgh on 8–9 September (men) and 7 September (women).

### Team standings

Men :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 82.5 |
| 2 | East Germany | 78.5 |
| 3 | West Germany | 76 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 70.5 |
| 5 | Finland | 65 |
| 6 | France | 45 |
Women :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 72 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 52 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 50 |
| 4 | West Germany | 36 |
| | Great Britain | 36 |
| 6 | Romania | 27 |

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

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (Wind: +1.5 m/s) | Siegfried Schenke East Germany | 10.26 CR | Aleksandr Kornelyuk Soviet Union | 10.34 | Jobst Hirscht West Germany | 10.47 |
| 200 m (Wind: -3.3 m/s) | Chris Monk Great Britain | 21.00 | Hans-Jürgen Bombach East Germany | 21.05 | Ossi Karttunen Finland | 21.24 |
| 400 m | Karl Honz West Germany | 45.20 | David Jenkins Great Britain | 46.00 | Ossi Karttunen Finland | 46.26 |
| 800 m | Andy Carter Great Britain | 1:46.44 CR | Yevgeniy Arzhanov Soviet Union | 1:46.70 | Dieter Fromm East Germany | 1:46.71 |
| 1500 m | Frank Clement Great Britain | 3:40.79 | Paul-Heinz Wellmann West Germany | 3:41.85 | Klaus-Peter Justus East Germany | 3:42.61 |
| 5000 m | Brendan Foster Great Britain | 13:54.65 | Manfred Kuschmann East Germany | 13:55.31 | Harald Norpoth West Germany | 13:57.66 |
| 10,000 m | Nikolay Sviridov Soviet Union | 28:44.08 | Detlef Uhlemann West Germany | 28:44.22 | Karl-Heinz Leiteritz East Germany | 28:44.36 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Tapio Kantanen Finland | 8:28.45 | Willi Maier West Germany | 8:29.76 | Leonid Savelyev Soviet Union | 8:30.93 |
| 110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s) | Guy Drut France | 13.70 | Anatoliy Moshiashvili Soviet Union | 13.76 | Thomas Munkelt East Germany | 13.77 |
| 400 m hurdles | Alan Pascoe Great Britain | 50.07 CR | Dmitriy Stukalov Soviet Union | 50.61 | Jürgen Laser East Germany | 51.09 |
| 4 × 100 m | East Germany Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Klaus-Dieter Kurrat | 39.45 | West Germany Jobst Hirscht Klaus Ehl Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister | 39.49 | Great Britain Brian Green Chris Monk Ian Matthews Les Piggot | 39.86 |
| 4 × 400 m | West Germany Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Bernd Herrmann Karl Honz | 3:04.25 CR | Soviet Union Valeriy Yurchenko Leonid Korolyev Valeriy Yudin Semyon Kocher | 3:05.11 | Great Britain John Wilson Alan Pascoe Joe Chivers David Jenkins | 3:06.27 |
| High jump | Valentin Gavrilov Soviet Union | 2.15 | Asko Pesonen Finland | 2.13 | Paul Poaniewa France | 2.09 |
| Pole vault | Yuriy Isakov Soviet Union Antti Kalliomäki Finland | 5.30 | | | Mike Bull Great Britain Reinhard Kuretzky West Germany | 5.20 |
| Long jump | Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union | 8.20w | Hans Baumgartner West Germany | 8.12 | Max Klauss East Germany | 8.03 |
| Triple jump | Viktor Sanyeyev Soviet Union | 16.90w | Jörg Drehmel East Germany | 16.89 | Esa Rinne Finland | 16.18 |
| Shot put | Hartmut Briesenick East Germany | 20.95 | Reijo Ståhlberg Finland | 20.27 | Geoff Capes East Germany | 19.80 |
| Discus throw | Pentti Kahma Finland | 63.10 | Siegfried Pachale East Germany | 60.48 | Bill Tancred Great Britain | 59.06 |
| Hammer throw | Anatoliy Bondarchuk Soviet Union | 74.08 | Reinhard Theimer East Germany | 72.06 | Jacques Accambray West Germany | 71.90 |
| Javelin throw | Klaus Wolfermann West Germany | 90.68 | Jānis Lūsis Soviet Union | 88.48 | Hannu Siitonen Finland | 84.08 |
| 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: +1.3 m/s) | Renate Stecher East Germany | 11.25 | Annegret Richter West Germany | 11.32 | Marina Sidorova Soviet Union | 11.40 |
| 200 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s) | Renate Stecher East Germany | 22.81 | Marina Sidorova Soviet Union | 22.93 | Helen Golden Great Britain | 23.14 |
| 400 m | Monika Zehrt East Germany | 51.75 CR | Lilyana Tomova Bulgaria | 52.33 | Nadezhda Kolesnikova Soviet Union | 52.35 |
| 800 m | Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany | 1:58.94 CR | Svetla Zlateva Bulgaria | 1:59.05 | Nijolé Sabaité Soviet Union | 2:02.17 |
| 1500 m | Tonka Petrova Bulgaria | 4:09.02 CR | Karin Krebs East Germany | 4:09.37 | Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union | 4:10.11 |
| 100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s) | Annelie Ehrhardt East Germany | 12.95 CR | Judy Vernon Great Britain | 13.34 | Natalya Lebedeva Soviet Union | 13.62 |
| 4 × 100 m | East Germany Petra Kandarr Renate Stecher Christina Heinich Doris Selmigkeit | 42.95 CR | West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Annegret Kroniger | 43.68 | Great Britain Elizabeth Sutherland Helen Golden Judy Vernon Andrea Lynch | 44.78 |
| 4 × 400 m | East Germany Waltraud Dietsch Renate Siebach Monika Zehrt Rita Kühne | 3:28.66 CR | Soviet Union Nina Zyuskova Ingrida Barkane Natalya Kulichkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova | 3:30.57 | Bulgaria Zdravka Trifonova Lilyana Tomova Stefka Yordanova Svetla Zlateva | 3:31.89 |
| High jump | Yordanka Blagoeva Bulgaria | 1.84 | Rita Kirst East Germany | 1.82 | Galina Filatova Soviet Union Virginia Ioan Romania Barbara Lawton Great Britain | 1.80 |
| Long jump | Angela Schmalfeld East Germany | 6.63 | Viorica Viscopoleanu Romania | 6.39 | Ruth Martin-Jones Great Britain | 6.30w |
| Shot put | Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union | 20.77 CR | Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria | 19.23 | Marita Lange East Germany | 18.81 |
| Discus throw | Faina Melnik Soviet Union | 69.48 WR, CR | Argentina Menis Romania | 64.16 | Gabriele Hinzmann East Germany | 63.76 |
| Javelin throw | Ruth Fuchs East Germany | 66.10 WR, CR | Lyutviyan Mollova Bulgaria | 60.30 | Ameli Koloska West Germany | 55.46 |
| 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 4 and 5 August. First two teams advanced to the final.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 98.5 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 80.5 |
| 3 | Italy | 72.5 |
| 4 | Hungary | 62 |
| 5 | Norway | 57.5 |
| 6 | Belgium | 48 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | West Germany | 103 |
| 2 | Finland | 88 |
| 3 | Poland | 83.5 |
| 4 | Yugoslavia | 63 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 43 |
| 6 | Spain | 37 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 98.5 |
| 2 | France | 90 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 76 |
| 4 | Sweden | 73 |
| 5 | Romania | 42 |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 40.5 |

### Women

All semifinals were held on 4 August. First two teams advanced to the final.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 63 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 58 |
| 3 | Poland | 55.5 |
| 4 | Finland | 36.5 |
| 5 | Sweden | 33 |
| 6 | Austria | 26 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 76 |
| 2 | Romania | 54 |
| 3 | Hungary | 53.5 |
| 4 | Italy | 43 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 24 |
| 6 | Norway | 22.5 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | West Germany | 60 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 57 |
| 3 | France | 50 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 39 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 38 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia | 28 |

## Preliminaries
### Men

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First two teams advanced to the semifinals.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Switzerland | 68 |
| 2 | Yugoslavia | 63.5 |
| 3 | Portugal | 37.5 |
| 4 | Ireland | 29 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Norway | 105 |
| 2 | Belgium | 90 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 83 |
| 4 | Denmark | 64.5 |
| 5 | Iceland | 42 |
| 6 | Luxembourg | 32.5 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Romania | 42 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 38.5 |
| 3 | Greece | 36.5 |

### Women

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Finland | 66 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 62 |
| 3 | Norway | 45 |
| 4 | Denmark | 43 |
| 5 | Ireland | 40 |
| 6 | Iceland | 16 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Yugoslavia | 67 |
| 2 | Switzerland | 57.5 |
| 3 | Austria | 47.5 |
| 4 | Belgium | 42 |
| 5 | Spain | 35 |
| 6 | Portugal | 24 |