1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

1974 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 400 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 2, 3, and 4 September 1974.^[1]

The winning margin was 0.63 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the men's 400 metres has been won by more than 0.6 seconds at these championships since the introduction of fully automatic timing, although the winning margin in the 1938 European Athletics Championships was a hand-timed 0.8 seconds.

Gold	Karl Honz  West Germany
Silver	David Jenkins  Great Britain
Bronze	Bernd Herrmann  West Germany

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Karl Honz	West Germany	45.04	CR
	David Jenkins	Great Britain	45.67
	Bernd Herrmann	West Germany	45.78
4	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	45.84
5	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	45.87
6	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	46.12
7	Erik Carlgren	Sweden	46.15
8	Francis Demarthon	France	46.90

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karl Honz	West Germany	46.24	Q
2	Francis Demarthon	France	46.28	Q
3	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	46.29	Q
4	Erik Carlgren	Sweden	46.51	Q
5	Jürgen Utikal	East Germany	46.62
6	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske	West Germany	46.64
7	Per-Olof Sjöberg	Sweden	46.68
8	Roger Jenkins	Great Britain	47.30

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Jenkins	Great Britain	45.93	Q
2	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	46.36	Q
3	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	46.39	Q
4	Bernd Herrmann	West Germany	46.40	Q
5	Alfons Brijdenbach	Belgium	46.43
6	Milorad Čikić	Yugoslavia	47.04
7	Andreas Scheibe	East Germany	47.24
8	Toine van den Goolberg	Netherlands	47.40

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske	West Germany	45.92	Q
2	Alfons Brijdenbach	Belgium	46.00	Q
3	Francis Demarthon	France	46.11	Q
4	Andreas Scheibe	East Germany	46.38	Q
5	Per-Olof Sjöberg	Sweden	46.63	q
6	Roger Jenkins	Great Britain	46.78	q
7	Roman Siedlecki	Poland	47.35

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bernd Herrmann	West Germany	46.30	Q
2	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	46.38	Q
3	Jürgen Utikal	East Germany	46.44	Q
4	Toine van den Goolberg	Netherlands	46.46	Q
5	Milorad Čikić	Yugoslavia	46.68	q
6	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	47.01	q
7	Stephen Marlow	Great Britain	48.71

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	46.50	Q
2	David Jenkins	Great Britain	46.60	Q
3	Erik Carlgren	Sweden	46.97	Q
4	Karl Honz	West Germany	46.98	Q
5	Josip Alebić	Yugoslavia	47.41
6	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	47.80

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.