1977 European Cup (athletics)

The 1977 European Cup was the 6th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

It was the first edition to introduce "A" and "B" Finals. The three best non-qualifying teams in the Semifinals would now compete in the "B" Final, the winner of which would qualify for the "A" Final.

The "A" Finals were held in Helsinki, Finland. The first two teams in those qualified for the inaugural IAAF World Cup.

Held in Helsinki on 13 and 14 August for both men and women.^[2]

Men Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 125 2  West Germany 113 3  Soviet Union 100 4  Great Britain 95 5  Poland 93 6  France 70 7  Finland 66 8  Italy 54

Women Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 106 2  Soviet Union 94 3  West Germany 68  Great Britain 68 5  Poland 58 6  Romania 55 7  Bulgaria 53 8  Finland 36

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Eugen Ray  East Germany	10.12 NR, CR	Pietro Mennea  Italy	10.29	Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union	10.33
200 m (Wind: -1.2 m/s)	Eugen Ray  East Germany	20.86	Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union	21.10	Ainsley Bennett  Great Britain	21.27
400 m	Bernd Herrmann  West Germany	45.92	Ryszard Podlas  Poland	46.00	Francis Demarthon  France	46.38
800 m	Willi Wülbeck  West Germany	1:47.21	Olaf Beyer  East Germany	1:47.27	José Marajo  France	1:47.49
1500 m	Steve Ovett  Great Britain	3:44.94	Thomas Wessinghage  West Germany	3:45.38	Ari Paunonen  Finland	3:45.90
5000 m	Nick Rose  Great Britain	13:27.84 CR	Enn Sellik  Soviet Union	13:29.20	Karl Fleschen  West Germany	13:29.44
10,000 m	Jörg Peter  East Germany	27:55.50 CR	Detlef Uhlemann  West Germany	27:58.79	Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union	28:03.60
3000 m steeplechase	Michael Karst  West Germany	8:27.87	Frank Baumgartl  East Germany	8:31.53	Tapio Kantanen  Finland	8:33.27
110 m hurdles (Wind: +2.0 m/s)	Thomas Munkelt  East Germany	13.37 CR	Jan Pusty  Poland	13.60	Eduard Pereverzev  Soviet Union	13.63
400 m hurdles	Volker Beck  East Germany	48.90 CR	Harald Schmid  West Germany	49.27	Alan Pascoe  Great Britain	49.65
4 × 100 m	East Germany Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Detlef Kübeck Alexander Thieme	38.84 CR	Soviet Union Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	39.27	Poland Andrzej Świerczyński Zenon Licznerski Zenon Nowosz Leszek Dunecki	39.74
4 × 400 m	West Germany Lothar Krieg Harald Schmid Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann	3:02.66 CR	East Germany Reinhard Kokot Jürgen Pfennig Günter Arnold Volker Beck	3:03.23	Poland Cezary Łapiński Henryk Galant Jerzy Pietrzyk Ryszard Podlas	3:03.83
High jump	Rolf Beilschmidt  East Germany	2.31 CR	Jacek Wszoła  Poland	2.28	Aleksandr Grigoryev  Soviet Union	2.20
Pole vault	Władysław Kozakiewicz  Poland	5.60 CR	Antti Kalliomäki  Finland	5.35	Günther Lohre  West Germany	5.30
Long jump	Jacques Rousseau  France	8.05	Valeriy Podluzhniy  Soviet Union	7.94	Roy Mitchell  Great Britain	7.94
Triple jump	Anatoliy Piskulin  Soviet Union	17.09w	Pentti Kuukasjärvi  Finland	16.32	Eugeniusz Biskupski  Poland	16.19
Shot put	Udo Beyer  East Germany	21.65 CR	Reijo Ståhlberg  Finland	20.90	Ralf Reichenbach  West Germany	20.42
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt  East Germany	66.86 CR	Nikolay Vikhor  Soviet Union	61.50	Stanisław Wołodko  Poland	61.20
Hammer throw	Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany	75.90	Jochen Sachse  East Germany	74.60	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	73.60
Javelin throw	Nikolay Grebnyev  Soviet Union	87.18	Piotr Bielczyk  Poland	79.62	Michael Wessing  West Germany	79.56
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.0 m/s)	Marlies Oelsner  East Germany	11.07 CR	Sonia Lannaman  Great Britain	11.22	Irena Szewińska  Poland	11.26
200 m (Wind: -0.8 m/s)	Irena Szewińska  Poland	22.71	Sonia Lannaman  Great Britain	22.83	Bärbel Eckert  East Germany	22.99
400 m	Marita Koch  East Germany	49.53 CR	Marina Sidorova  Soviet Union	51.20	Donna Hartley  Great Britain	51.62
800 m	Christina Liebetrau  East Germany	2:00.17	Totka Petrova  Bulgaria	2:00.18	Svetlana Styrkina  Soviet Union	2:00.96
1500 m	Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union	4:04.35 CR	Ulrike Bruns  East Germany	4:04.52	Natalia Mărășescu  Romania	4:05.08
3000 m	Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union	8:49.86	Maricica Puica  Romania	8:50.96	Gabriele Meinel  East Germany	8:53.91
100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Johanna Klier  East Germany	12.83	Natalya Lebedeva  Soviet Union	13.08	Bożena Nowakowska  Poland	13.29
400 m hurdles	Karin Rossley  East Germany	55.63 WR	Tatyana Storosheva  Soviet Union	56.84	Krystyna Kacperczyk  Poland	57.01
4 × 100 m	East Germany Monika Hamann Romy Schneider Ingrid Brestrich Marlies Oelsner	42.62 CR	Soviet Union Tatyana Prorochenko Lyudmila Maslakova Marina Sidorova Lyudmila Storozhkova	43.43	West Germany Elvira Possekel Dagmar Schenten Petra Sharp Annegret Richter	43.72
4 × 400 m	East Germany Bettina Popp Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch	3:23.70 CR	Soviet Union Lyudmila Aksenova Svetlana Styrkina Tatyana Prorochenko Natalya Sokolova	3:26.62	Poland Krystyna Kacperczyk Elżbieta Katolik Barbara Kwietniewska Irena Szewińska	3:27.76
High jump	Rosemarie Ackermann  East Germany	1.97 WR, CR	Brigitte Holzapfel  West Germany	1.88	Cornelia Popa  Romania	1.84
Long jump	Brigitte Künzel  East Germany	6.76	Christa Striezel  West Germany	6.39	Sue Reeve  Great Britain	6.35
Shot put	Eva Wilms  West Germany	20.01	Svetlana Krachevskaya  Soviet Union	19.76	Radostina Bakhchevanova  Bulgaria	17.75
Discus throw	Faina Veleva  Soviet Union	68.08	Sabine Engel  East Germany	65.60	Argentina Menis  Romania	62.22
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs  East Germany	68.92 CR	Tessa Sanderson  Great Britain	62.36	Nadezhda Yakubovich  Soviet Union	61.84
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

The winners qualified for the "A" final.

Men Held on 6 and 7 August in Gothenburg, Sweden[2] Pos. Nation Points 1  France 115 2  Sweden 108 3  Romania 94 4  Czechoslovakia 92 5   Switzerland 88 6  Yugoslavia 87 7  Hungary 78 8  Bulgaria 57

Women Held on 6 August in Třinec, Czechoslovakia[2] Pos. Nation Points 1  Bulgaria 98 2  Italy 83 3  France 79 4  Hungary 76 5  Czechoslovakia 75 6  Belgium 63 7  Netherlands 38 8  Austria 27

All semifinals were held on 16 and 17 July.^[2] First two teams qualified for the "A" final (plus Finland as the host). Places 3–5 qualified for the "B" final.

Semifinal 1 Held in Athens, Greece Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 132 2  Italy 117 3  Czechoslovakia 109 4  Finland 98 5  Hungary 86 6  Greece 77 7  Netherlands 59 8  Denmark 38

Semifinal 2 Held in Warsaw, Poland Pos. Nation Points 1  West Germany 142 2  Poland 133 3  Romania 99 4  Bulgaria 87 5  Sweden 77 6  Spain 70 7  Norway 65 8  Portugal 45

Semifinal 3 Held in London, United Kingdom Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 129 2  Great Britain 126 3  France 120 4   Switzerland 90 5  Yugoslavia 83 6  Belgium 78 7  Austria 54 8  Ireland 39

All semifinals were held on 16 July.^[2] First two teams qualified for the "A" final (plus Finland as the host). Places 3–5 qualified for the "B" final.

Semifinal 1 Held in Stuttgart, West Germany Pos. Nation Points 1  Poland 100 2  West Germany 92 3  Hungary 77 4  Czechoslovakia 65 5  Belgium 63 6  Sweden 59 7  Norway 45 8  Spain 36

Semifinal 2 Held in Dublin, Ireland Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 114 2  Great Britain 106 3  Bulgaria 91 4  Netherlands 63 5  Austria 55 6  Ireland 48 7  Denmark 46 8  Iceland 21

Semifinal 3 Held in Bucharest, Romania Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 106 2  Romania 99 3  Italy 84 4  France 77 5  Finland 65 6  Yugoslavia 46 7   Switzerland 42 8  Portugal 17

Preliminaries were held in Søllerød, Denmark, on 25 and 26 June for both men and women. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.

Men Pos. Nation Points 1  Portugal 74 2  Ireland 65 3  Denmark 64 4  Iceland 54 5  Luxembourg 43

Women Pos. Nation Points 1  Norway 49 2  Portugal 35 3  Iceland 34 4  Greece 31

• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics
• Semifinals, "B" and "A" Final results (L'Athletisme October 1977, pp 9–12)