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 women's 200 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 4 and 6 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Irena Szewińska  Poland
Silver	Renate Stecher  East Germany
Bronze	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen  Finland

6 September Wind: -2.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Irena Szewińska	Poland	22.51	CR
	Renate Stecher	East Germany	22.68
	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	23.17
4	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	23.31
5	Helen Golden	Great Britain	23.38
6	Annegret Kroniger	West Germany	23.38
7	Christiane Krause	West Germany	23.78
8	Petra Kandarr	East Germany	23.99

6 September

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Renate Stecher	East Germany	23.01	Q
2	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	23.35	Q
3	Christiane Krause	West Germany	23.49	Q
4	Helen Golden	Great Britain	23.54	Q
5	Barbara Bakulin	Poland	23.81
6	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	23.86
7	Doris Maletzki	East Germany	24.07
8	Elvira Possekel	West Germany	24.29

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	22.88	Q
2	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	23.17	Q
3	Annegret Kroniger	West Germany	23.29	Q
4	Petra Kandarr	East Germany	23.50	Q
5	Ildiko Szabó	Hungary	23.97
6	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	23.98
7	Rosine Wallez	Belgium	24.03
8	Marina Sidorova	Soviet Union	24.66

4 September

Wind: 1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	23.13	Q
2	Petra Kandarr	East Germany	23.44	Q
3	Christiane Krause	West Germany	23.51	Q
4	Barbara Bakulin	Poland	23.56	q
5	Ildiko Szabó	Hungary	23.78	q

Wind: -1.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Renate Stecher	East Germany	23.35	Q
2	Marina Sidorova	Soviet Union	23.55	Q
3	Annegret Kroniger	West Germany	23.55	Q
4	Helen Golden	Great Britain	24.02	q
5	Laura Nappi	Italy	24.22

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	23.45	Q
2	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.87	Q
3	Elvira Possekel	West Germany	24.08	Q
4	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	24.14	q
5	Sylviane Telliez	France	24.41

Wind: -1.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Doris Maletzki	East Germany	23.77	Q
2	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	23.84	Q
3	Rosine Wallez	Belgium	24.00	Q
4	Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	24.22
5	Emma Sulter	France	33.92

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.