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Men's 200 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Stadio Olimpico
Location	Rome
Dates	4 September (heats & semi-finals) 6 September (final)
Competitors	28 from 14 nations
Winning time	20.60
Medalists
Pietro Mennea    Italy   Manfred Ommer    West Germany   Hans-Jürgen Bombach    East Germany
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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 200 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 4 and 6 September 1974.

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (3)
•  East Germany (2)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (3)
•  Great Britain (3)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Italy (3)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Poland (3)
•  Spain (2)
•  Sweden (1)
•   Switzerland (1)
•  West Germany (3)

Results

Heats

4 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bruno Cherrier	France	20.96	Q
2	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.11	Q
3	Raymond Heerenveen	Netherlands	21.24	Q
4	Chris Monk	Great Britain	21.25	q
5	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	21.36
6	Robert Tempel	West Germany	21.51
7	Marek Bedyński	Poland	21.53
			Wind: -0.1 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.04	Q
2	Joseph Arame	France	21.09	Q
3	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.13	Q
4	Marian Woronin	Poland	21.60
			Wind: -2.4 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	21.23	Q
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.24	Q
3	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.41	Q
4	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.49
5	Tibor Farkas	Hungary	22.06
			Wind: +0.3 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Joachim Zenk	East Germany	21.30	Q
2	Philippe Leroux	France	21.40	Q
3	Steve Green	Great Britain	21.54	Q
4	Luis Sarría	Spain	21.54
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.67
6	Marian Králik	Czechoslovakia	21.67
			Wind: +1.5 m/s

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	21.03	Q
2	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.34	Q
3	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	21.48	Q
4	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	21.54
5	Miguel Arnau	Spain	21.72
6	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	22.38
			Wind: +1.4 m/s

Semi-finals

6 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	20.81	Q
2	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	20.92	Q
3	Bruno Cherrier	France	20.94	Q
4	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	20.97	Q
5	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.11
6	Philippe Leroux	France	21.22
7	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.26
8	Chris Monk	Great Britain	21.32
			Wind: -1.6 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.83	Q
2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	21.09	Q
3	Joseph Arame	France	21.16	Q
4	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.23	Q
5	Raymond Heerenveen	Netherlands	21.44
6	Hans-Joachim Zenk	East Germany	21.46
7	Steve Green	Great Britain	21.52
8	Peter Muster	Switzerland	77.41
			Wind: +0.5 m/s

Final

6 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.60
	Manfred Ommer	West Germany	20.76
	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	20.83
4	Joseph Arame	France	20.87
5	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	20.93
6	Bruno Cherrier	France	21.02
7	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.29
	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	DNS
			Wind: -0.8 m/s

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 420–427, retrieved 13 August 2014

• Events at the 1974 European Athletics Championships
• 200 metres at the European Athletics Championships