1974 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 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 women's 1500 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 6 and 8 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany
Silver	Lilyana Todorova  Bulgaria
Bronze	Grete Andersen  Norway

8 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:02.25	CR NR
	Lilyana Todorova	Bulgaria	4:04.97	NR
	Grete Andersen	Norway	4:05.21	NR
4	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:05.94
5	Tamara Pangelova	Soviet Union	4:09.93
6	Ulrike Klapezynski	East Germany	4:10.54
7	Carmen Valero	Spain	4:11.61	NJR NR
8	Joyce Smith	Great Britain	4:12.26
9	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:12.7
10	Ellen Wellmann	West Germany	4:16.3
11	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	4:17.5
	Karin Burneleit	East Germany	DNS

6 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:11.7	Q
2	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:12.1	Q
3	Tamara Pangelova	Soviet Union	4:12.8	Q
4	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4:14.1
5	Rumyana Chavdarova	Bulgaria	4:15.1
6	Czesława Surdel	Poland	4:18.7
7	Wenche Sorum	Norway	4:19.3
8	Loa Olafsson	Denmark	4:28.0
9	Sylvia Schenk	West Germany	4:30.1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:11.4	Q
2	Lilyana Todorova	Bulgaria	4:11.5	Q
3	Ellen Wellmann	West Germany	4:11.5	Q
4	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	4:11.5	q
5	Ulrike Klapezynski	East Germany	4:11.7	q
6	Carmen Valero	Spain	4:13.0	NR q
7	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	4:13.2	NR
8	Nina Holmén	Finland	4:14.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grete Andersen	Norway	4:11.5	Q
2	Joyce Smith	Great Britain	4:12.0	Q
3	Karin Burneleit	East Germany	4:13.2	Q
4	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4:14.7
5	Mary Purcell	Ireland	4:15.1	NR
6	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:17.8
7	Silvana Cruciata	Italy	4:22.6

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.