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 men's marathon at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, on 8 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Ian Thompson  Great Britain
Silver	Eckhard Lesse  East Germany
Bronze	Gaston Roelants  Belgium

8 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ian Thompson	Great Britain	2:13:18.8
	Eckhard Lesse	East Germany	2:14:57.4
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	2:16:29.6
4	Bernie Plain	Great Britain	2:18:02.2
5	Jose Reveyn	Belgium	2:19:36.4
6	Ferenc Szekeres	Hungary	2:20:12.8
7	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	2:20:28.2
8	Neil Cusack	Ireland	2:22:05.0
9	Paavo Leiviskä	Finland	2:22:45.6
10	Yuriy Laptyev	Soviet Union	2:23:15.6
11	Paolo Accaputo	Italy	2:24:06.0
12	Danny McDaid	Ireland	2:25:07.8
13	Jørgen Jensen	Denmark	2:26:54.2
14	Bob Sercombe	Great Britain	2:27:13.0
15	Josef Jánský	Czechoslovakia	2:27:40.4
16	Edward Łęgowski	Poland	2:27:45.8
17	Václav Mládek	Czechoslovakia	2:30:16.8
18	Peter Suchán	Czechoslovakia	2:30:42.6
19	Reino Paukkonen	Finland	2:31:11.2
20	Günter Mielke	West Germany	2:32:21.6
21	Ryszard Chudecki	Poland	2:34:15.0
22	Anatoliy Strelets	Soviet Union	2:34:55.2
	Antonio Mangano	Italy	DNF
	Yury Velikorodnykh	Soviet Union	DNF
	Karel Lismont	Belgium	DNF
	Agustin Fernandez	Spain	DNF
	Peter Helmer	Denmark	DNF
	Atanas Galabov	Bulgaria	DNF
	Theofanis Tsimingatos	Greece	DNF
	Fernand Kolbeck	France	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.