The1973 European Cup was the 4th edition of theEuropean Cup ofathletics.^[1]

TheFinals were held at theMeadowbank Stadium inEdinburgh, Scotland, for the first time on asynthetic track.

Held in Edinburgh on 8–9 September (men) and 7 September (women).^[2]

Men Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 82.5 2  East Germany 78.5 3  West Germany 76 4  Great Britain 70.5 5  Finland 65 6  France 45

Women Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 72 2  Soviet Union 52 3 Bulgaria 50 4  West Germany 36  Great Britain 36 6 Romania 27

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.5 m/s)	Siegfried Schenke  East Germany	10.26 CR	Aleksandr Kornelyuk  Soviet Union	10.34	Jobst Hirscht  West Germany	10.47
200 m (Wind: -3.3 m/s)	Chris Monk  Great Britain	21.00	Hans-Jürgen Bombach  East Germany	21.05	Ossi Karttunen  Finland	21.24
400 m	Karl Honz  West Germany	45.20	David Jenkins  Great Britain	46.00	Ossi Karttunen  Finland	46.26
800 m	Andy Carter  Great Britain	1:46.44 CR	Yevgeniy Arzhanov  Soviet Union	1:46.70	Dieter Fromm  East Germany	1:46.71
1500 m	Frank Clement  Great Britain	3:40.79	Paul-Heinz Wellmann  West Germany	3:41.85	Klaus-Peter Justus  East Germany	3:42.61
5000 m	Brendan Foster  Great Britain	13:54.65	Manfred Kuschmann  East Germany	13:55.31	Harald Norpoth  West Germany	13:57.66
10,000 m	Nikolay Sviridov  Soviet Union	28:44.08	Detlef Uhlemann  West Germany	28:44.22	Karl-Heinz Leiteritz  East Germany	28:44.36
3000 m steeplechase	Tapio Kantanen  Finland	8:28.45	Willi Maier  West Germany	8:29.76	Leonid Savelyev  Soviet Union	8:30.93
110 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Guy Drut  France	13.70	Anatoliy Moshiashvili  Soviet Union	13.76	Thomas Munkelt  East Germany	13.77
400 m hurdles	Alan Pascoe  Great Britain	50.07 CR	Dmitriy Stukalov  Soviet Union	50.61	Jürgen Laser  East Germany	51.09
4 × 100 m	East Germany Manfred Kokot Michael Droese Hans-Jürgen Bombach Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	39.45	West Germany Jobst Hirscht Klaus Ehl Manfred Ommer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	39.49	Great Britain Brian Green Chris Monk Ian Matthews Les Piggot	39.86
4 × 400 m	West Germany Hermann Köhler Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Bernd Herrmann Karl Honz	3:04.25 CR	Soviet Union Valeriy Yurchenko Leonid Korolyev Valeriy Yudin Semyon Kocher	3:05.11	Great Britain John Wilson Alan Pascoe Joe Chivers David Jenkins	3:06.27
High jump	Valentin Gavrilov  Soviet Union	2.15	Asko Pesonen  Finland	2.13	Paul Poaniewa  France	2.09
Pole vault	Yuriy Isakov  Soviet Union Antti Kalliomäki  Finland	5.30			Mike Bull  Great Britain Reinhard Kuretzky  West Germany	5.20
Long jump	Valeriy Podluzhniy  Soviet Union	8.20w	Hans Baumgartner  West Germany	8.12	Max Klauss  East Germany	8.03
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev  Soviet Union	16.90w	Jörg Drehmel  East Germany	16.89	Esa Rinne  Finland	16.18
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick  East Germany	20.95	Reijo Ståhlberg  Finland	20.27	Geoff Capes  East Germany	19.80
Discus throw	Pentti Kahma  Finland	63.10	Siegfried Pachale  East Germany	60.48	Bill Tancred  Great Britain	59.06
Hammer throw	Anatoliy Bondarchuk  Soviet Union	74.08	Reinhard Theimer  East Germany	72.06	Jacques Accambray  West Germany	71.90
Javelin throw	Klaus Wolfermann  West Germany	90.68	Jānis Lūsis  Soviet Union	88.48	Hannu Siitonen  Finland	84.08
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: +1.3 m/s)	Renate Stecher  East Germany	11.25	Annegret Richter  West Germany	11.32	Marina Sidorova  Soviet Union	11.40
200 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Renate Stecher  East Germany	22.81	Marina Sidorova  Soviet Union	22.93	Helen Golden  Great Britain	23.14
400 m	Monika Zehrt  East Germany	51.75 CR	Lilyana Tomova  Bulgaria	52.33	Nadezhda Kolesnikova  Soviet Union	52.35
800 m	Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany	1:58.94 CR	Svetla Zlateva  Bulgaria	1:59.05	Nijolé Sabaité  Soviet Union	2:02.17
1500 m	Tonka Petrova  Bulgaria	4:09.02 CR	Karin Krebs  East Germany	4:09.37	Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union	4:10.11
100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Annelie Ehrhardt  East Germany	12.95 CR	Judy Vernon  Great Britain	13.34	Natalya Lebedeva  Soviet Union	13.62
4 × 100 m	East Germany Petra Kandarr Renate Stecher Christina Heinich Doris Selmigkeit	42.95 CR	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Annegret Kroniger	43.68	Great Britain Elizabeth Sutherland Helen Golden Judy Vernon Andrea Lynch	44.78
4 × 400 m	East Germany Waltraud Dietsch Renate Siebach Monika Zehrt Rita Kühne	3:28.66 CR	Soviet Union Nina Zyuskova Ingrida Barkane Natalya Kulichkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova	3:30.57	Bulgaria Zdravka Trifonova Lilyana Tomova Stefka Yordanova Svetla Zlateva	3:31.89
High jump	Yordanka Blagoeva  Bulgaria	1.84	Rita Kirst  East Germany	1.82	Galina Filatova  Soviet Union Virginia Ioan  Romania Barbara Lawton  Great Britain	1.80
Long jump	Angela Schmalfeld  East Germany	6.63	Viorica Viscopoleanu  Romania	6.39	Ruth Martin-Jones  Great Britain	6.30w
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova  Soviet Union	20.77 CR	Ivanka Khristova  Bulgaria	19.23	Marita Lange  East Germany	18.81
Discus throw	Faina Melnik  Soviet Union	69.48 WR,CR	Argentina Menis  Romania	64.16	Gabriele Hinzmann  East Germany	63.76
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs  East Germany	66.10 WR,CR	Lyutviyan Mollova  Bulgaria	60.30	Ameli Koloska  West Germany	55.46
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)

All semifinals were held on 4 and 5 August.^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Held inOslo, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 98.5 2  Great Britain 80.5 3  Italy 72.5 4  Hungary 62 5  Norway 57.5 6  Belgium 48

Semifinal 2 Held inCelje, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1  West Germany 103 2  Finland 88 3 Poland 83.5 4  Yugoslavia 63 5  Switzerland 43 6 Spain 37

Semifinal 3 Held inNice, France Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 98.5 2  France 90 3  Czechoslovakia 76 4  Sweden 73 5 Romania 42 6 Bulgaria 40.5

All semifinals were held on 4 August.^[2] First two teams advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Held inWarsaw, Poland Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 63 2 Bulgaria 58 3 Poland 55.5 4  Finland 36.5 5  Sweden 33 6  Austria 26

Semifinal 2 Held inBucharest, Romania Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 76 2 Romania 54 3  Hungary 53.5 4  Italy 43 5  Switzerland 24 6  Norway 22.5

Semifinal 3 Held inSittard, Netherlands Pos. Nation Points 1  West Germany 60 2  Great Britain 57 3  France 50 4  Netherlands 39 5  Yugoslavia 38 6  Czechoslovakia 28

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First two teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held inLisbon, Portugal Pos. Nation Points 1  Switzerland 68 2  Yugoslavia 63.5 3  Portugal 37.5 4  Ireland 29

Preliminary 2 Held inBrussels, Belgium Pos. Nation Points 1  Norway 105 2  Belgium 90 3  Netherlands 83 4  Denmark 64.5 5  Iceland 42 6  Luxembourg 32.5

Preliminary 3 Held inAthenes, Greece Pos. Nation Points 1 Romania 42 2 Bulgaria 38.5 3 Greece 36.5

All preliminaries were held on 30 June and 1 July. First three teams advanced to the semifinals.

Preliminary 1 Held inLyngby, Denmark Pos. Nation Points 1  Finland 66 2  Czechoslovakia 62 3  Norway 45 4  Denmark 43 5  Ireland 40 6  Iceland 16

Preliminary 2 Held inRijeka, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1  Yugoslavia 67 2  Switzerland 57.5 3  Austria 47.5 4  Belgium 42 5 Spain 35 6  Portugal 24

• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics

• European Cup (athletics)
• 1973 in the sport of athletics
• 1973 in Scottish sport
• September 1973 sports events in the United Kingdom
• International athletics competitions hosted by Scotland
• International sports competitions in Edinburgh
• 1970s in Edinburgh

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