1970 European Cup (athletics)

The 1970 European Cup was the 3rd edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

The Finals were held in Stockholm, Sweden (men) and Budapest, Hungary (women).

Final

Held on 29 and 30 August in Stockholm (men) and on 22 August (women) in Budapest.^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 102 2  Soviet Union 92,5 3  West Germany 91 4  Poland 82 5  France 77,5 6  Sweden 68 7  Italy 47

Women Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 70 2  West Germany 63 3  Soviet Union 43 4  Poland 35 5  Great Britain 34 6  Hungary 32

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.0 m/s)	Zenon Nowosz  Poland	10.4	Siegfried Schenke  East Germany	10.5	Gerhard Wucherer  West Germany	10.5
200 m (Wind: +5.8 m/s)	Siegfried Schenke  East Germany	20.7w	Jochen Eigenherr  West Germany	20.9w	Zenon Nowosz  Poland	21.0w
400 m	Jan Werner  Poland	45.9	Jean-Claude Nallet  France	46.3	Boris Savchuk  Soviet Union	46.7
800 m	Yevgeniy Arzhanov  Soviet Union	1:47.8	Franz-Josef Kemper  West Germany	1:48.6	Andrzej Kupczyk  Poland	1:48.7
1500 m	Franco Arese  Italy	3:42.3	Henryk Szordykowski  Poland	3:42.5	Jean Wadoux  France	3:42.6
5000 m	Harald Norpoth  West Germany	14:25.4	Gerd Eisenberg  East Germany	14:25.6	Rashid Sharafetdinov  Soviet Union	14:25.8
10,000 m	Jürgen Haase  East Germany	28:26.8 CR	Nikolay Sviridov  Soviet Union	28:29.2	Manfred Letzerich  West Germany	28:40.0
3000 m steeplechase	Vladimir Dudin  Soviet Union	8:31.6 CR	Ulrich Holbeck  East Germany	8:36.0	Kazimierz Maranda  Poland	8:38.0
110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Guy Drut  France	13.7 CR	Bo Forssander  Sweden	14.0	Günther Nickel  West Germany	14.0
400 m hurdles	Jean-Claude Nallet  France	50.1 CR	Werner Reibert  West Germany	51.0	Dmitriy Stukalov  Soviet Union	51.2
4 × 100 m	East Germany Hans-Jürgen Bombach Joachim Walther Hermann Burde Harald Eggers	39.4	Poland Stanisław Wagner Tadeusz Cuch Edward Romanowski Zenon Nowosz	39.5	West Germany Günther Nickel Jochen Eigenherr Gerhard Wucherer Josef Schwarz	39.6
4 × 400 m	Poland Jan Werner Edmund Borowski Jan Balachowski Andrzej Badeński	3:05.1	Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko Yuriy Zorin Boris Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov	3:06.3	East Germany Rainer Friedrich Andreas Scheibe Michael Zerbes Wolfgang Müller	3:07.1
High jump	Kenneth Lundmark  Sweden	2.15 CR	Valentin Gavrilov  Soviet Union Gérard Lamy  France	2.13
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany	5.35 CR	Renato Dionisi  Italy	5.20	François Tracanelli  France	5.15
Long jump	Jack Pani  France	8.09	Klaus Beer  East Germany	8.07	Josef Schwarz  West Germany	7.99
Triple jump	Jörg Drehmel  East Germany	17.13 CR	Viktor Sanyeyev  Soviet Union	17.01	Józef Schmidt  Poland	16.65
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick  East Germany	20.55	Heinfried Birlenbach  West Germany	19.54	Pierre Colnard  France	19.44
Discus throw	Ricky Bruch  Sweden	64.86 CR	Hein-Direck Neu  West Germany	61.40	Vladimir Lyakhov  Soviet Union	59.26
Hammer throw	Anatoliy Bondarchuk  Soviet Union	70.46	Uwe Beyer  West Germany	69.46	Reinhard Theimer  East Germany	69.32
Javelin throw	Władysław Nikiciuk  Poland	82.46	Jānis Lūsis  Soviet Union	81.74	Klaus Wolfermann  West Germany	80.90
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		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.3 m/s)	Ingrid Mickler  West Germany	11.3	Renate Meissner  East Germany	11.4	Györgyi Balogh  Hungary	11.6
200 m (Wind: +0.2 m/s)	Renate Meissner  East Germany	23.1	Ingrid Mickler  West Germany	23.3	Györgyi Balogh  Hungary	23.3
400 m	Helga Fischer  East Germany	53.2 CR	Christel Frese  West Germany	54.1	Vera Popkova  Soviet Union	54.0
800 m	Hildegard Janze  West Germany	2:04.9	Sheila Carey  Great Britain	2:05.3	Barbara Wieck  East Germany	2:05.4
1500 m	Ellen Tittel  West Germany	4:16.3	Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany	4:16.5	Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union	4:17.2
100 m hurdles (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Karin Balzer  East Germany	13.1	Teresa Sukniewicz  Poland	13.2	Margit Bach  West Germany	13.7
4 × 100 m	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Annelie Wilden Rita Jahn Ingrid Mickler	43.9 CR	East Germany Renate Meissner Christina Heinich Bärbel Schrickel Marion Wagner	44.5	Hungary Erzsébet Bartos Judit Szabó Györgyi Balogh Katalin Papp	44.8
4 × 400 m	East Germany Helga Fischer Renate Marder Brigitte Rohde Monika Zehrt	3:37.0	West Germany Christel Frese Christa Czekay Inge Eckhoff Heidi Gerhard	3:37.2	Great Britain Rosemary Stirling Maureen Tranter Val Peat Helen Golden	3:37.8
High jump	Rita Schmidt  East Germany	1.84 CR	Antonina Lazareva  Soviet Union	1.84 CR	Karen Mack  West Germany	1.76
Long jump	Heide Rosendahl  West Germany	6.80 NR, CR	Ann Wilson  Great Britain	6.57w	Margrit Herbst  East Germany	6.44
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova  Soviet Union	19.42	Hannelore Friedel  East Germany	18.01	Ludwika Chewińska  Poland	17.01
Discus throw	Karin Illgen  East Germany	61.60 CR	Liesel Westermann  West Germany	61.44	Tamara Danilova  Soviet Union	57.84
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs  East Germany	60.60 CR	Daniela Jaworska  Poland	55.90	Marite Saulite  Soviet Union	54.52
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 1 and 2 August.^[2] First two teams advanced to the final. Sweden advanced as the host of the final.

Semifinal 1 Held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1  West Germany 97 2  Italy 82.5 3  Czechoslovakia 76 4  Hungary 65.5 5  Yugoslavia 58 6  Bulgaria 40

Semifinal 2 Held in Helsinki, Finland Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 99 2  Poland 92 3  Finland 81 4  Sweden 65 5  Norway 48 6  Belgium 35

Semifinal 3 Held in Zürich, Switzerland Pos. Nation Points 1  France 97 1  Soviet Union 97 3  Great Britain 68 4  Spain 60 5  Switzerland 55 6  Romania 42

Women

All semifinals were held on 22 August.^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Held in East Berlin, East Germany Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 84 2  Great Britain 73 3  Netherlands 58 4  France 55 5  Denmark 34 6  Finland 32 7  Norway 28

Semifinal 2 Held in Herford, West Germany Pos. Nation Points 1  West Germany 74 2  Hungary 52 3  Bulgaria 48 4  Sweden 46 5  Yugoslavia 32 6  Belgium 21

Semifinal 3 Held in Bucharest, Romania Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 79 2  Poland 71 3  Romania 66 4  Italy 47 5  Czechoslovakia 38 6  Switzerland 35 7  Austria 28

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 20–21 June. First two teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held in Barcelona Pos. Nation Points 1  Spain 64 2  Romania 50 3  Netherlands 44 4  Greece 41

Preliminary 2 Held in Vienna Pos. Nation Points 1  Yugoslavia 68 2  Bulgaria 59 3  Austria 47 4  Luxembourg 23

Preliminary 3 Held in Reykjavík Pos. Nation Points 1  Finland 81 2  Belgium 69 3  Denmark 60 4  Ireland 53 5  Iceland 37

References

External links

• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics