1971 European Athletics Championships

10th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1971 European Athletics Championships
Dates	10 – 15 August
Host city	Helsinki, Finland
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	38
Participation	857 athletes from 29 nations
← 1969 Athens 1974 Rome →

The 10th (X) European Athletics Championships were held from 10 August to 15 August 1971 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.

Men's results

Finnish Postage stamp

Complete results were published.

Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union	10.26 CR	Gerhard Wucherer West Germany	10.48	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos Greece	10.56
200 metres	Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union	20.30 CR	Franz-Peter Hofmeister West Germany	20.71	Jörg Pfeifer East Germany	20.72
400 metres	David Jenkins Great Britain	45.45 CR	Marcello Fiasconaro Italy	45.49	Jan Werner Poland	45.56
800 metres	Yevhen Arzhanov Soviet Union	1:45.6 CR	Dieter Fromm East Germany	1:46.0	Andy Carter Great Britain	1:46.2
1500 metres	Francesco Arese Italy	3:38.4 CR	Henryk Szordykowski Poland	3:38.7	Brendan Foster Great Britain	3:39.2
5000 metres	Juha Väätäinen Finland	13:32.6 CR	Jean Wadoux France	13:33.6	Harald Norpoth West Germany	13:33.8
10,000 metres	Juha Väätäinen Finland	27:52.8 CR	Jürgen Haase East Germany	27:53.4	Rashid Sharafetdinov Soviet Union	27:56.4
Marathon	Karel Lismont Belgium	2:13:09 CR	Trevor Wright Great Britain	2:13:59	Ron Hill Great Britain	2:14:34
20 kilometres walk	Nikolay Smaga Soviet Union	1:27:20 CR	Gerhard Sperling East Germany	1:27:29	Paul Nihill Great Britain	1:27:34
50 kilometres walk	Veniamin Soldatenko Soviet Union	4:02:22 CR	Christoph Höhne East Germany	4:04:45	Peter Selzer East Germany	4:06:11
110 metres hurdles	Frank Siebeck East Germany	14.00	Alan Pascoe Great Britain	14.09	Lubomír Nádeníček Czechoslovakia	14.30
400 metres hurdles	Jean-Claude Nallet France	49.2 =CR	Christian Rudolph East Germany	49.3	Dmitriy Stukalov Soviet Union	50.0
3000 metres steeplechase	Jean-Paul Villain France	8:25.2	Dušan Moravčík Czechoslovakia	8:26.2	Pavel Sysoyev Soviet Union	8:26.4
4 × 100 metres relay	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman Czechoslovakia (TCH)	39.3	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak Poland (POL)	39.7	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni Italy (ITA)	39.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Thomas Jordan Martin Jellinghaus Hermann Köhler West Germany (FRG)	3:02.9	Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner Poland (POL)	3:03.6	Lorenzo Cellerino Giacomo Puosi Sergio Bello Marcello Fiasconaro Italy (ITA)	3:04.6

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Kęstutis Šapka Soviet Union	2.20 m	Csaba Dosa Romania	2.20 m	Rustam Akhmetov Soviet Union	2.20 m
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig East Germany	5.35 m CR	Kjell Isaksson Sweden	5.30 m	Renato Dionisi Italy	5.30 m
Long jump	Max Klauß East Germany	7.92 m	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Soviet Union	7.91 m	Stanisław Szudrowicz Poland	7.87 m
Triple jump	Jörg Drehmel East Germany	17.16 m w	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	17.10 m w	Carol Corbu Romania	16.87 m
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick East Germany	21.08 m CR	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg East Germany	20.47 m	Władysław Komar Poland	20.04 m
Discus throw	Ludvík Daněk Czechoslovakia	63.90 m CR	Lothar Milde East Germany	61.62 m	Géza Fejér Hungary	61.54 m
Hammer throw	Uwe Beyer West Germany	72.36 m	Reinhard Theimer East Germany	71.80 m	Anatoliy Bondarchuk Soviet Union	71.40 m
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis Soviet Union	90.68 m	Jānis Doniņš Soviet Union	85.30 m	Wolfgang Hanisch East Germany	84.22 m
Decathlon	Joachim Kirst East Germany	8196 pts CR	Lennart Hedmark Sweden	8038 pts	Hans-Joachim Walde West Germany	7951 pts

Women's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Renate Stecher East Germany	11.4 =CR	Ingrid Mickler West Germany	11.5	Elfgard Schittenhelm West Germany	11.5
200 metres	Renate Stecher East Germany	22.7 CR	Györgyi Balogh Hungary	23.2	Irena Szewińska Poland	23.3
400 metres	Helga Seidler East Germany	52.1	Inge Bödding West Germany	52.9	Ingelore Lohse East Germany	52.9
800 metres	Vera Nikolić Yugoslavia	2:00.0 CR	Pat Lowe Great Britain	2:01.7	Rosemary Stirling Great Britain	2:02.1
1500 metres	Karin Burneleit East Germany	4:09.62 WR, CR,	Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany	4:10.3	Ellen Tittel West Germany	4:10.4
100 metres hurdles	Karin Balzer East Germany	12.94 CR	Annelie Ehrhardt East Germany	13.0	Teresa Sukniewicz Poland	13.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Irrgang Ingrid Mickler West Germany (FRG)	43.3 CR	Karin Balzer Renate Stecher Petra Vogt Ellen Stropahl East Germany (GDR)	43.6	Lyudmila Zharkova Galina Bukharina Marina Sidorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Soviet Union (URS)	44.5
4 × 400 metres relay	Rita Kühne Ingelore Lohse Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt East Germany (GDR)	3:29.3 CR	Anette Rückes Christel Frese Hildegard Falck Inge Bödding West Germany (FRG)	3:33.0	Raissa Nikaronova Vera Popkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova Natalya Chistyakova Soviet Union (URS)	3:34.1

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Ilona Gusenbauer Austria	1.87 m CR	Cornelia Popescu Romania	1.85 m
			Barbara Inkpen Great Britain	1.85 m
Long jump	Ingrid Mickler West Germany	6.76 m CR	Meta Antenen Switzerland	6.73 m	Heide Rosendahl West Germany	6.66 m
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union	20.16 m	Marita Lange East Germany	19.25 m	Margitta Gummel East Germany	19.22 m
Discus throw	Faina Melnik Soviet Union	64.22 m WR, CR	Liesel Westermann West Germany	61.68 m	Lyudmila Muravyova Soviet Union	59.48 m
Javelin throw	Daniela Jaworska Poland	61.00 m CR	Ameli Koloska West Germany	59.40 m	Ruth Fuchs East Germany	59.16 m
Pentathlon	Heide Rosendahl West Germany	4675 pts	Burglinde Pollak East Germany	4638 pts	Margrit Herbst East Germany	4570 pts

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	12	13	7	32
2	Soviet Union (URS)	9	3	8	20
3	West Germany (FRG)	5	7	5	17
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	1	1	4
5	France (FRA)	2	1	0	3
6	Finland (FIN)*	2	0	0	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	4	5	10
8	Poland (POL)	1	3	5	9
9	Italy (ITA)	1	1	3	5
10	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	0	1
13	Romania (ROU)	0	2	1	3
14	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
15	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
16	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
17	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		38	39	37	114

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 871 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, fourteen athletes more than the official number of 857 as published.

• Austria (16)
• Belgium (16)
• Bulgaria (12)
• Czechoslovakia (32)
• Denmark (14)
• East Germany (68)
• Finland (48)
• France (67)
• Gibraltar (1)
• Greece (4)
• Hungary (42)
• Iceland (3)
• Ireland (9)
• Italy (47)
• Liechtenstein (1)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Netherlands (20)
• Norway (30)
• Poland (65)
• Portugal (5)
• Romania (18)
• Soviet Union (84)
• Spain (16)
• Sweden (43)
• Switzerland (20)
• Turkey (9)
• Great Britain (65)
• West Germany (88)
• Yugoslavia (27)

References

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