1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 7 and 8 September 1974.^[1] The third-placed Finnish team was initially disqualified over Markku Kukkoaho's use of his elbows at the start of the anchor leg, but Finland launched a successful counter-protest and kept the bronze medals.^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins Great Britain
Silver	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Rolf Ziegler West Germany
Bronze	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho Finland

8 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins	3:03.33
	West Germany	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Rolf Ziegler	3:03.52
	Finland	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho	3:03.57
4	France	Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Vélasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon	3:04.6
5	East Germany	Reinhard Kokot Benno Stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe	3:05.0
6	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Rijn van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg	3:06.3	NR
7	Sweden	Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson	3:12.6
	Soviet Union	Valeriy Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Semyon Kocher	DNF

7 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Finland	Stig Lönnqvist Ossi Karttunen Markku Taskinen Markku Kukkoaho	3:04.6	Q
2	Great Britain	Glen Cohen Bill Hartley Alan Pascoe David Jenkins	3:04.7	Q
3	France	Jean-Claude Nallet Roger Vélasquez Jacques Carette Francis Demarthon	3:05.3	Q
4	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Rijn van den Heuvel Frank Nusse Toine van den Goolberg	3:06.28	Q
5	Italy	Flavio Borghi Alfonso di Guida Lorenzo Cellerino Marcello Fiasconaro	3:08.5
6	Yugoslavia	Ivica Ivičak Milorad Čikić Josip Alebić Luciano Sušanj	3:37.8

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Soviet Union	Valeriy Yurchenko Vladimir Nosenko Yevgeniy Gavrilenko Semyon Kocher	3:05.3	Q
2	Sweden	Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson	3:05.5	Q
3	East Germany	Reinhard Kokot Benno Stops Jürgen Utikal Andreas Scheibe	3:05.8	Q
4	West Germany	Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Karl Honz Bernd Herrmann	3:05.8	Q
5	Czechoslovakia	Ivan Daniš František Štross Miroslav Tulis Miroslav Kodejš	3:06.29

According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014
^ Peltola, Vesa-Matti (December 2006). "Yleisurheilun arvokisatulosten ristiriitaisuuksia". Suomen Urheilutietäjät (in Finnish). Retrieved 27 January 2019.