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 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 7 and 8 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot  France
Silver	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea  Italy
Bronze	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke  East Germany

8 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot	38.69	CR
	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	38.88
	East Germany	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke	38.99
4	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kornelyuk Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	39.03
5	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marek Bedyński Grzegorz Mądry Zenon Nowosz	39.35
6	Spain	Luis Sarría Juan Sarrasqueta Miguel Arnau José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	39.87
7	Bulgaria	Lyubomir Ivanov Petar Petrov Georgi Ganchev Mirolyub Petkov	39.91
8	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Kynos Jaroslav Matoušek Juraj Demeč Luděk Bohman	39.92

7 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Norberto Oliosi Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.27	Q
2	East Germany	Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Siegfried Schenke	39.33	Q
3	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marek Bedyński Grzegorz Mądry Zenon Nowosz	39.78	Q
4	Spain	Luis Sarría Juan Sarrasqueta Miguel Arnau José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	40.01	Q
5	Sweden	Rolf Trulsson Per-Olof Sjöberg Dimitrie Grama Christer Garpenborg	40.11
6	Finland	Ossi Karttunen Raimo Vilén Lasse Malin Markku Juhola	40.20
7	Hungary	Lajos Gresa Endre Lepold László Korona Tibor Farkas	40.36

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	France	Lucien Sainte-Rose Joseph Arame Bruno Cherrier Dominique Chauvelot	39.24	Q
2	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kornelyuk Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	39.55	Q
3	Bulgaria	Lyubomir Ivanov Petar Petrov Georgi Ganchev Mirolyub Petkov	39.95	Q
4	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Kynos Jaroslav Matoušek Juraj Demeč Luděk Bohman	40.00	Q
5	Great Britain	David Roberts Alan Lerwill Chris Monk Don Halliday	40.33
	West Germany	Klaus Ehl Klaus-Dieter Bieler Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	DQ

According to an unofficial count, 52 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.