1974 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres

Events at the 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

The women's 1500 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Roma, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 6 and 8 September 1974.

Medalists

Gold	Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany
Silver	Lilyana Todorova Bulgaria
Bronze	Grete Andersen Norway

Results

Final

8 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:02.25	CR NR
	Lilyana Todorova	Bulgaria	4:04.97	NR
	Grete Andersen	Norway	4:05.21	NR
4	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:05.94
5	Tamara Pangelova	Soviet Union	4:09.93
6	Ulrike Klapezynski	East Germany	4:10.54
7	Carmen Valero	Spain	4:11.61	NJR NR
8	Joyce Smith	United Kingdom	4:12.26
9	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:12.7
10	Ellen Wellmann	West Germany	4:16.3
11	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	4:17.5
	Karin Burneleit	East Germany	DNS

Heats

6 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:11.7	Q
2	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:12.1	Q
3	Tamara Pangelova	Soviet Union	4:12.8	Q
4	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4:14.1
5	Rumyana Chavdarova	Bulgaria	4:15.1
6	Czesława Surdel	Poland	4:18.7
7	Wenche Sorum	Norway	4:19.3
8	Loa Olafsson	Denmark	4:28.0
9	Sylvia Schenk	West Germany	4:30.1

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:11.4	Q
2	Lilyana Todorova	Bulgaria	4:11.5	Q
3	Ellen Wellmann	West Germany	4:11.5	Q
4	Gunilla Lindh	Sweden	4:11.5	q
5	Ulrike Klapezynski	East Germany	4:11.7	q
6	Carmen Valero	Spain	4:13.0	NR q
7	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	4:13.2	NR
8	Nina Holmén	Finland	4:14.6

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grete Andersen	Norway	4:11.5	Q
2	Joyce Smith	United Kingdom	4:12.0	Q
3	Karin Burneleit	East Germany	4:13.2	Q
4	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4:14.7
5	Mary Purcell	Ireland	4:15.1	NR
6	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:17.8
7	Silvana Cruciata	Italy	4:22.6

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

• Belgium (1)
• Bulgaria (3)
• Denmark (1)
• East Germany (3)

• Finland (1)
• Ireland (1)
• Italy (2)
• Norway (2)

• Poland (1)
• Romania (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Spain (1)

• Sweden (1)
• United Kingdom (1)
• West Germany (2)