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 shot put at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 4 and 6 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Hartmut Briesenick  East Germany
Silver	Ralf Reichenbach  West Germany
Bronze	Geoff Capes  Great Britain

6 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Hartmut Briesenick	East Germany	20.50
	Ralf Reichenbach	West Germany	20.38
	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	20.21
4	Aleksandr Baryshnikov	Soviet Union	20.13
5	Valeriy Voykin	Soviet Union	20.07
6	Władysław Komar	Poland	19.82
7	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	19.73
8	Udo Beyer	East Germany	19.63
9	Valcho Stoev	Bulgaria	19.62
10	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	19.42
11	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	19.25
12	Mike Winch	Great Britain	18.89
13	Ole Lindskjøld	Denmark	18.84

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Władysław Komar	Poland	20.00	Q
2	Ralf Reichenbach	West Germany	19.61	Q
3	Udo Beyer	East Germany	19.57	Q
4	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	19.48	Q
5	Hartmut Briesenick	East Germany	19.37	Q
6	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	19.37	Q
7	Ole Lindskjøld	Denmark	19.30	Q
8	Valcho Stoev	Bulgaria	19.29	Q
9	Mike Winch	Great Britain	19.29	Q
10	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	19.21	Q
11	Valeriy Voykin	Soviet Union	19.16	Q
12	Aleksandr Baryshnikov	Soviet Union	19.10	Q
13	Jaromír Vlk	Czechoslovakia	19.09	Q
14	Nikolay Khristov	Bulgaria	18.59
15	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	18.56
16	Hreinn Halldorsson	Iceland	18.28
17	Angelo Groppelli	Italy	18.06
18	Hans Höglund	Sweden	17.99
19	Josef Forst	West Germany	17.74
20	Mieczysław Bręczewski	Poland	17.49

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.