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1974 European Athletics Championships
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The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 8 September 1974.

Medalists

Gold	Brigitte Rohde Waltraud Dietsch Angelika Handt Ellen Streidt  East Germany
Silver	Marika Eklund Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Pirjo Häggman Riitta Salin  Finland
Bronze	Inta Kļimoviča Ingrīda Barkāne Nadezhda Ilyina Natalya Sokolova  Soviet Union

Results

Final

8 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	East Germany	Brigitte Rohde Waltraud Dietsch Angelika Handt Ellen Streidt	3:25.2	CR
	Finland	Marika Eklund Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Pirjo Häggman Riitta Salin	3:25.7	NR
	Soviet Union	Inta Kļimoviča Ingrīda Barkāne Nadezhda Ilyina Natalya Sokolova	3:26.1	NR
4	Poland	Genowefa Błaszak Krystyna Kacperczyk Danuta Piecyk Irena Szewińska	3:26.4	NR
5	West Germany	Dagmar Fuhrmann Elke Barth Hildegard Falck Rita Wilden	3:27.9
6	Great Britain	Ruth Kennedy Jannette Roscoe Verona Bernard Donna Hartley	3:29.6
7	Romania	Ibolya Slavic Alexandra Badescu Lăcrămioara Diaconiuc Mariana Suman	3:30.8	NR
8	Czechoslovakia	Eva Štefková Jindřiška Heřmanská Eva Kovalčíková Jozefína Čerchlanová	3:36.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  East Germany (4)
•  Finland (4)
•  Poland (4)
•  Romania (4)
•  Soviet Union (4)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  West Germany (4)

References

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

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