1974 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

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 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 8 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Brigitte Rohde Waltraud Dietsch Angelika Handt Ellen Streidt  East Germany
Silver	Marika Eklund Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Pirjo Häggman Riitta Salin  Finland
Bronze	Inta Kļimoviča Ingrīda Barkāne Nadezhda Ilyina Natalya Sokolova  Soviet Union

8 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	East Germany	Brigitte Rohde Waltraud Dietsch Angelika Handt Ellen Streidt	3:25.2	CR
	Finland	Marika Eklund Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Pirjo Häggman Riitta Salin	3:25.7	NR
	Soviet Union	Inta Kļimoviča Ingrīda Barkāne Nadezhda Ilyina Natalya Sokolova	3:26.1	NR
4	Poland	Genowefa Błaszak Krystyna Kacperczyk Danuta Piecyk Irena Szewińska	3:26.4	NR
5	West Germany	Dagmar Fuhrmann Elke Barth Hildegard Falck Rita Wilden	3:27.9
6	Great Britain	Ruth Kennedy Jannette Roscoe Verona Bernard Donna Hartley	3:29.6
7	Romania	Ibolya Slavic Alexandra Badescu Lăcrămioara Diaconiuc Mariana Suman	3:30.8	NR
8	Czechoslovakia	Eva Štefková Jindřiška Heřmanská Eva Kovalčíková Jozefína Čerchlanová	3:36.3

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.