1977 European Cup "A" Final

These are the full results of the 1977 European Cup "A" Final in athletics which was held at the Olympic Stadium on 13 and 14 August 1977 in Helsinki, Finland.[1][2]

Team standings

Men's results

100 metres

13 August
Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 7 Eugen Ray  East Germany 10.12 CR, NR 8
2 2 Pietro Mennea  Italy 10.29 7
3 6 Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 10.33 6
4 1 Ainsley Bennett  Great Britain 10.48 5
5 5 Lucien Sainte-Rose  France 10.52 4
6 2 Werner Bastians  West Germany 10.60 3
7 3 Antti Rajamäki  Finland 10.64 2
8 8 Marian Woronin  Poland 10.73 1

200 metres

14 August
Wind: -2.4 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Eugen Ray  East Germany 20.86 8
2 Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 21.10 7
3 Ainsley Bennett  Great Britain 21.27 6
4 Ossi Karttunen  Finland 21.35 5
5 Joseph Arame  France 21.48 4
6 Luciano Caravani  Italy 21.65 3
7 Michael Gruse  West Germany 21.80 2
8 Zenon Licznerski  Poland 21.82 1

400 metres

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Bernd Herrmann  West Germany 45.92 8
2 Ryszard Podlas  Poland 46.00 7
3 Francis Demarthon  France 46.38 6
4 David Jenkins  Great Britain 46.40 5
5 Reinhard Kokot  East Germany 46.80 4
6 Alfonso Di Guida  Italy 47.04 3
7 Valeriy Yurchenko  Soviet Union 47.53 2
8 Hannu Mäkelä  Finland 47.73 1

800 metres

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Willi Wülbeck  West Germany 1:47.21 8
2 Olaf Beyer  East Germany 1:47.29 7
3 José Marajo  France 1:47.49 6
4 Sebastian Coe  Great Britain 1:47.61 5
5 Marian Gęsicki  Poland 1:47.69 4
6 Vladimir Ponomaryov  Soviet Union 1:47.74 3
7 Ari Paunonen  Finland 1:47.93 2
8 Gabriele Ferrero  Italy 1:48.80 1

1500 metres

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Steve Ovett  Great Britain 3:44.94 8
2 Thomas Wessinghage  West Germany 3:45.38 7
3 Ari Paunonen  Finland 3:45.90 6
4 Henryk Wasilewski  Poland 3:45.93 5
5 Francis Gonzalez  France 3:46.56 4
6 Jürgen Straub  East Germany 3:46.58 3
7 Anatoliy Mamontov  Soviet Union 3:46.60 2
8 Mariano Scartezzini  Italy 3:48.67 1

5000 metres

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Nick Rose  Great Britain 13:27.84 CR 8
2 Enn Sellik  Soviet Union 13:29.20 7
3 Karl Fleschen  West Germany 13:29.44 6
4 Manfred Kuschmann  East Germany 13:33.42 5
5 Ryszard Kopijasz  Poland 13:42.16 4
6 Jacques Boxberger  France 13:45.50 3
7 Luigi Zarcone  Italy 13:50.41 2
8 Pekka Päivärinta  Finland 14:12.86 1

10,000 metres

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Jörg Peter  East Germany 27:55.50 CR 8
2 Detlef Uhlemann  West Germany 27:58.79 7
3 Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union 28:03.60 6
4 Martti Vainio  Finland 28:07.23 5
5 Jerzy Kowol  Poland 28:09.96 NR 4
6 Franco Fava  Italy 28:11.59 3
7 Jean-Paul Gomez  France 28:15.66 2
8 Tony Simmons  Great Britain 29:03.97 1

110 metres hurdles

14 August
Wind: +2.0 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Thomas Munkelt  East Germany 13.37 CR 8
2 Jan Pusty  Poland 13.60 7
3 Eduard Pereverzev  Soviet Union 13.63 6
4 Arto Bryggare  Finland 13.66 5
5 Berwyn Price  Great Britain 13.87 4
6 Giuseppe Buttari  Italy 14.18 3
7 Thierry Sellier  France 14.57 2
Dieter Gebhard  West Germany DNF 0

400 metres hurdles

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Volker Beck  East Germany 48.90 CR, NR 8
2 Harald Schmid  West Germany 49.27 7
3 Alan Pascoe  Great Britain 49.65 6
4 Jerzy Hewelt  Poland 50.44 5
5 Vasyl Arkhypenko  Soviet Union 50.56 4
6 Raimo Alanen  Finland 51.02 3
7 Lucien Baggio  France 51.24 2
8 Lorenzo Brigante  Italy 51.96 1

3000 metres steeplechase

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Michael Karst  West Germany 8:27.87 8
2 Frank Baumgartl  East Germany 8:31.53 7
3 Tapio Kantanen  Finland 8:33.27 6
4 Dennis Coates  Great Britain 8:33.94 5
5 Franco Fava  Italy 8:37.06 4
6 Vladimir Filonov  Soviet Union 8:38.55 3
7 Krzysztof Wesołowski  Poland 8:40.94 2
8 Philippe Gauthier  France 9:12.09 1

4 × 100 metres relay

13 August

Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Note Points
1 5  East Germany Manfred Kokot, Eugen Ray, Detlef Kübeck, Alexander Thieme 38.84 CR 8
2 4  Soviet Union Nikolay Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Aksinin, Juris Silovs, Valeriy Borzov 39.27 7
3 6  Poland Andrzej Świerczyński, Zenon Licznerski, Zenon Nowosz, Leszek Dunecki 39.38 6
4 7  West Germany Werner Bastians, Dieter Gebhard, Dieter Steinmann, Michael Gruse 39.74 5
5 1  Great Britain Ainsley Bennett, Allan Wells, Tim Bonsor, Steve Green 39.84 4
6 3  France Éric Bigon, Joseph Arame, Lucien Sainte-Rose, Jacques Rousseau 39.84 3
7 2  Finland Antti Rajamäki, Ossi Karttunen, Markku Juhola, Raimo Räty 40.51 2
8  Italy Stefano Curini, Luciano Caravani, Pietro Farina, Pietro Mennea DQ 0

4 × 400 metres relay

14 August

Rank Nation Athletes Time Note Points
1  West Germany Lothar Krieg, Harald Schmid, Franz-Peter Hofmeister, Bernd Herrmann 3:02.66 CR 8
2  East Germany Reinhard Kokot, Jürgen Pfennig, Gόnter Arnold, Volker Beck 3:03.23 NR 7
3  Poland Cezary Łapiński, Henryk Galant, Jerzy Pietrzyk, Ryszard Podlas 3:03.83 6
4  Great Britain Steve Scutt, Danny Laing, Glen Cohen, David Jenkins 3:04.82 5
5  France Robert Froissart, Jean-Claude Nallet, Lionel Malingre, Francis Demarthon 3:05.22 4
6  Finland Matti Rusanen, Juhani Tiihonen, Hannu Mäkelä, Markku Kukkoaho 3:07.12 3
7  Soviet Union Vladimir Yevstyunin, Viktor Burakov, Vasyl Arkhypenko, Valeriy Yurchenko 3:07.47 2
8  Italy Stefano Malinverni, Roberto Tozzi, Daniele Zanini, Alfonso Di Guida 3:09.07 1

High jump

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Points
1 Rolf Beilschmidt  East Germany 2.31 CR 8
2 Jacek Wszoła  Poland 2.28 7
3 Aleksandr Grigoryev  Soviet Union 2.20 6
4 Bruno Bruni  Italy 2.20 5
5 Carlo Thränhardt  West Germany 2.20 4
6 Paul Poaniewa  France 2.11 3
7 Mike Butterfield  Great Britain 2.08 2
8 Asko Pesonen  Finland 2.08 DQ, Doping[3] 0

Pole vault

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Points
1 Władysław Kozakiewicz  Poland 5.60 CR 8
2 Antti Kalliomäki  Finland 5.35 7
3 Günther Lohre  West Germany 5.30 6
4 Brian Hooper  Great Britain 5.30 5
5 Jean-Michel Bellot  France 5.25 4
6 Renato Dionisi  Italy 5.20 3
7 Axel Weber  East Germany 5.20 2
8 Vladimir Kishkun  Soviet Union 5.00 1

Long jump

13 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Jacques Rousseau  France 7.95 x x x 8.05 7.96 8.05 8
2 Valeriy Pidluzhny  Soviet Union 7.76 6.65 7.84 7.94 7.88 7.90 7.94 7
3 Roy Mitchell  Great Britain 5.07 7.72 x 7.94 7.90 7.94 6
4 Hans Baumgartner  West Germany 7.72 5
5 Uwe Lange  East Germany 7.68 4
6 Maurizio Siega  Italy 7.66 3
7 Andrzej Korniak  Poland 7.55 2
8 Erkki Päivärinta  Finland 7.44 1

Triple jump

14 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Anatoliy Piskulin  Soviet Union 17.09w 16.69 x x x 16.56 17.09w 8
2 Pentti Kuukasjärvi  Finland 16.32 15.93 15.79 x 15.88 15.99 16.32 7
3 Eugeniusz Biskupski  Poland 15.99w 15.76 14.05 16.09 15.90 16.19 16.19 6
4 Keith Connor  Great Britain 16.17 5
5 Bernard Lamitié  France 16.07 4
6 Wolfgang Kolmsee  West Germany 15.94 3
7 Klaus Hufnagel  East Germany 15.93 2
8 Roberto Mazzucato  Italy 15.82 1

Shot put

13 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Udo Beyer  East Germany 21.65 21.50 20.98 20.66 21.14 20.90 21.65 CR 8
2 Reijo Ståhlberg  Finland 19.85 20.59 20.90 x x x 20.90 7
3 Ralf Reichenbach  West Germany 20.30 19.99 20.42 20.42 19.86 x 20.42 6
4 Geoff Capes  Great Britain 20.15 5
5 Władysław Komar  Poland 19.71 4
6 Marco Montelatici  Italy 19.09 3
7 Anatoliy Yarosh  Soviet Union 19.04 2
8 Arnjolt Beer  France 18.07 1

Discus throw

14 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Wolfgang Schmidt  East Germany 64.44 63.34 x 66.86 65.02 x 66.86 CR 8
2 Markku Tuokko  Finland x 64.10 67.06 x 63.56 66.42 66.42 DQ, Doping[3] 0
2 Nikolay Vikhor  Soviet Union 60.46 x 61.50 58.46 x x 61.50 7
3 Stanisław Wołodko  Poland 61.20 6
4 Hein-Direck Neu  West Germany 60.68 5
5 Silvano Simeon  Italy 57.98 4
6 Frédéric Piette  France 57.08 3
7 John Hillier  Great Britain 53.92 2

Hammer throw

13 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany 75.90 75.64 75.38 x 75.08 x 75.90 8
2 Jochen Sachse  East Germany 71.34 69.64 70.82 74.60 73.14 71.52 74.60 7
3 Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union 70.22 72.62 73.60 72.28 72.68 73.34 73.60 6
4 Chris Black  Great Britain 71.18 5
5 Giampaolo Urlando  Italy 70.34 4
6 Juha Tiainen  Finland 70.12 3
7 Philippe Suriray  France 66.12 2
8 Ireneusz Golda  Poland 65.74 1

Javelin throw

14 August – Old model

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Nikolay Grebnyev  Soviet Union 78.54 77.64 81.28 83.10 84.38 87.18 87.18 8
2 Seppo Hovinen  Finland 83.98 x x x 84.06 78.50 84.06 DQ, Doping[3] 0
2 Piotr Bielczyk  Poland 78.62 73.08 69.18 73.08 79.62 78.68 79.62 7
3 Michael Wessing  West Germany 79.56 6
4 Wolfgang Hanisch  East Germany 79.04 5
5 Penitio Lutui  France 74.42 4
6 David Ottley  Great Britain 72.70 3
7 Vincenzo Marchetti  Italy 66.64 2

Women's results

100 metres

13 August
Wind: +1.0 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Marlies Oelsner  East Germany 11.07 CR 8
2 Sonia Lannaman  Great Britain 11.22 7
3 Irena Szewińska  Poland 11.26 6
4 Lyudmila Maslakova  Soviet Union 11.32 5
5 Elvira Possekel  West Germany 11.57 4
6 Ivanka Valkova  Bulgaria 11.60 3
7 Mona-Lisa Pursiainen  Finland 11.64 2
8 Veronica Buia  Romania 11.77 1

200 metres

14 August
Wind: -0.8 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Irena Szewińska  Poland 22.71 8
2 Sonia Lannaman  Great Britain 22.83 7
3 Bärbel Eckert  East Germany 22.99 6
4 Marina Sidorova  Soviet Union 23.28 5
5 Dagmar Schenten  West Germany 23.61 4
6 Pirjo Häggman  Finland 24.02 3
7 Ivanka Valkova  Bulgaria 24.29 2
8 Veronica Buia  Romania 24.52 1

400 metres

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Marita Koch  East Germany 49.53 CR 8
2 Marina Sidorova  Soviet Union 51.20 7
3 Donna Hartley  Great Britain 51.62 6
4 Pirjo Häggman  Finland 52.11 5
5 Dagmar Fuhrmann  West Germany 52.12 4
6 Elena Tărîță  Romania 52.36 3
7 Elżbieta Katolik  Poland 53.06 2
8 Svetla Koleva  Bulgaria 54.26 1

800 metres

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Christina Liebetrau  East Germany 2:00.17 8
2 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 2:00.18 7
3 Svetlana Styrkina  Soviet Union 2:00.96 6
4 Ileana Silai  Romania 2:01.28 5
5 Elisabeth Schacht  West Germany 2:01.61 4
6 Jolanta Januchta  Poland 2:01.97 3
7 Jane Colebrook  Great Britain 2:02.98 2
8 Sinikka Tyynelä  Finland 2:03.48 NR 1

1500 metres

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union 4:04.35 CR 8
2 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 4:04.52 7
3 Natalia Mărășescu  Romania 4:05.08 6
4 Vesela Yatsinska  Bulgaria 4:05.35 5
5 Sinikka Tyynelä  Finland 4:06.01 NR 4
6 Elisabeth Schacht  West Germany 4:09.95 3
7 Celina Sokołowska  Poland 4:10.75 NR 2
8 Hilary Hollick  Great Britain 4:21.86 1

3000 metres

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union 8:49.86 8
2 Maricica Puică  Romania 8:50.96 7
3 Gabriele Veith  East Germany 8:53.91 NR 6
4 Ann Ford  Great Britain 8:55.92 5
5 Brigitte Kraus  West Germany 9:01.29 NR 4
6 Rumyana Chavdarova  Bulgaria 9:06.28 3
7 Bronisława Ludwichowska  Poland 9:14.40 2
8 Aila Paunonen  Finland 9:35.22 1

100 metres hurdles

14 August
Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Johanna Klier  East Germany 12.83 8
2 Natalya Lebedeva  Soviet Union 13.08 7
3 Bożena Nowakowska  Poland 13.29 6
4 Sharon Colyear  Great Britain 13.48 5
5 Lidia Guseva  Bulgaria 13.64 4
6 Sylvia Kempin  West Germany 13.76 3
7 Ulla Lempiäinen  Finland 13.87 2
8 Elena Mirza  Romania 14.22 1

400 metres hurdles

13 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Points
1 Karin Roßley  East Germany 55.63 WR 8
2 Tatyana Storocheva  Soviet Union 56.84 7
3 Krystyna Kacperczyk  Poland 57.01 6
4 Erika Weinstein  West Germany 57.36 5
5 Christine Warden  Great Britain 58.51 4
6 Alexandra Badescu  Romania 59.28 3
7 Zlatina Ilieva  Bulgaria 59.55 2
8 Tuija Helander  Finland 1:01.39 1

4 × 100 metres relay

13 August

Rank Nation Athletes Time Note Points
1  East Germany Monika Hamann, Romy Schneider, Ingrid Brestrich, Marlies Oelsner 42.62 CR 8
2  Soviet Union Tatyana Prorochenko, Lyudmila Maslakova, Marina Sidorova, Lyudmila Storozhkova 43.43 7
3  West Germany Elvira Possekel, Dagmar Schenten, Petra Sharp, Annegret Richter 43.72 6
4  Poland Ewa Długołęcka, Małgorzata Bogucka, Elżbieta Kaniecka, Irena Szewińska 43.74 5
5  Great Britain Wendy Clarke, Sonia Lannaman, Sharon Colyear, Andrea Lynch 43.74 4
6  Bulgaria Sofka Popova, Ivanka Valkova, Lyubina Dimitrova, Galina Penkova 44.72 3
7  Finland Helinä Laihorinne, Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Yvonne Hannus, Barbro Lindström 45.32 2
8  Romania Otilia Șomănescu, Eugenia Baciu, Elena Mirza, Veronica Buia 47.28 1

4 × 400 metres relay

14 August

Rank Nation Athletes Time Note Points
1  East Germany Bettina Popp, Barbara Krug, Christina Brehmer, Marita Koch 3:23.70 CR 8
2  Soviet Union Lyudmila Aksenova, Svetlana Styrkina, Tatyana Prorochenko, Natalya Sokolova 3:26.62 7
3  Poland Krystyna Kacperczyk, Elżbieta Katolik, Barbara Kwietniewska, Irena Szewińska 3:27.76 6
4  Great Britain Ruth Kennedy, Gladys McCormack, Verona Elder, Donna Hartley 3:28.78 5
5  West Germany Marlies Kühn, Erika Weinstein, Elke Decker, Dagmar Fuhrmann 3:31.95 4
6  Finland Yvonne Hannus, Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Barbro Lindström, Pirjo Häggman 3:37.78 3
7  Bulgaria Violeta Tsvetkova, Svetla Koleva, Angelina Khristova, Totka Petrova 3:37.78 2
 Romania DQ 0

High jump

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Points
1 Rosemarie Ackermann  East Germany 1.97 WR 8
2 Brigitte Holzapfel  West Germany 1.88 7
3 Cornelia Popa  Romania 1.84 6
4 Brenda Gibbs  Great Britain 1.84 5
5 Yordanka Blagoeva  Bulgaria 1.84 4
6 Susann Sundkvist  Finland 1.82 3
7 Tatyana Boyko  Soviet Union 1.82 2
8 Danuta Bułkowska  Poland 1.79 1

Long jump

14 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Brigitte Künzel  East Germany x 6.44 6.76 6.30 x 6.28 6.76 8
2 Christa Striezel  West Germany 6.14 6.39 x 6.17 x 6.05 6.39 7
3 Sue Reeve  Great Britain x 6.35 6.35 6.35 6.30 6.28 6.35 6
4 Alina Gheorghiu  Romania 6.35 5
5 Tatyana Skachko  Soviet Union 6.34 4
6 Lidia Gusheva  Bulgaria 6.26 3
7 Anna Włodarczyk  Poland 6.23 2
8 Pirkko Helenius  Finland 6.00 1

Shot put

14 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Ilona Slupianek  East Germany 20.76 21.20 21.11 20.84 20.81 x 21.20 DQ, Doping[3] 0
1 Eva Wilms  West Germany 19.30 20.01 19.95 x 19.69 x 20.01 8
2 Esfir Krachevskaya  Soviet Union 19.21 18.41 19.76 19.09 x 19.51 19.76 7
3 Radostina Bakhchevanova  Bulgaria 17.75 6
4 Valentina Groapa  Romania 17.70 5
5 Beata Habrzyk  Poland 16.52 4
6 Judy Oakes  Great Britain 15.65 3
7 Ritva Metso  Finland 15.08 2

Discus throw

13 August

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Faina Melnik  Soviet Union 67.32 52.32 x 68.08 x x 68.08 8
2 Sabine Engel  East Germany 60.64 62.98 60.52 64.20 65.60 63.18 65.60 7
3 Argentina Menis  Romania 61.42 61.66 x 60.74 x 62.22 62.22 6
4 Sinikka Salminen  Finland 55.44 5
5 Lenka Strelyova  Bulgaria 54.96 4
6 Krystyna Nadolna  Poland 54.64 3
7 Ingra Manecke  West Germany 53.90 2
8 Meg Ritchie  Great Britain 52.40 1

Javelin throw

13 August – Old model

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Points
1 Ruth Fuchs  East Germany x 62.22 68.92 67.46 x x 68.92 CR 8
2 Tessa Sanderson  Great Britain 55.46 62.36 59.66 62.28 x x 62.36 7
3 Nadezhda Yakubovich  Soviet Union 61.84 x x 59.14 56.12 x 61.84 6
4 Éva Zörgő  Romania 60.16 5
5 Ivanka Vancheva  Bulgaria 59.98 4
6 Marion Becker  West Germany 57.30 3
7 Bernadetta Blechacz  Poland 55.46 2
8 Ritva Metso  Finland 53.20 1

References

  1. ^ Results (archived)
  2. ^ Results at Tilastopaja
  3. ^ a b c d Wilson, Wayne (2000). Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement. Human Kinetics. ISBN 9780736003292.