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
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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. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Men's results

Finnish Postage stamp

Complete results were published. ^[7]

Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	10.26 CR	Gerhard Wucherer   West Germany	10.48	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos   Greece	10.56
200 metres details	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	20.30 CR	Franz-Peter Hofmeister   West Germany	20.71	Jörg Pfeifer   East Germany	20.72
400 metres details	David Jenkins   Great Britain	45.45 CR	Marcello Fiasconaro   Italy	45.49	Jan Werner   Poland	45.56
800 metres details	Yevhen Arzhanov   Soviet Union	1:45.6 CR	Dieter Fromm   East Germany	1:46.0	Andy Carter   Great Britain	1:46.2
1500 metres details	Francesco Arese   Italy	3:38.4 CR	Henryk Szordykowski   Poland	3:38.7	Brendan Foster   Great Britain	3:39.2
5000 metres details	Juha Väätäinen   Finland	13:32.6 CR	Jean Wadoux   France	13:33.6	Harald Norpoth   West Germany	13:33.8
10,000 metres details	Juha Väätäinen   Finland	27:52.8 CR	Jürgen Haase   East Germany	27:53.4	Rashid Sharafetdinov   Soviet Union	27:56.4
Marathon details	Karel Lismont   Belgium	2:13:09 CR	Trevor Wright   Great Britain	2:13:59	Ron Hill   Great Britain	2:14:34
20 kilometres walk details	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 details	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 details	Frank Siebeck   East Germany	14.00	Alan Pascoe   Great Britain	14.09	Lubomír Nádeníček   Czechoslovakia	14.30
400 metres hurdles details	Jean-Claude Nallet   France	49.2 =CR	Christian Rudolph   East Germany	49.3	Dmitriy Stukalov   Soviet Union	50.0
3000 metres steeplechase details	Jean-Paul Villain   France	8:25.2	Dušan Moravčík   Czechoslovakia	8:26.2	Pavel Sysoyev   Soviet Union	8:26.4
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

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

Women's results

Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Renate Stecher   East Germany	11.4 =CR	Ingrid Mickler   West Germany	11.5	Elfgard Schittenhelm   West Germany	11.5
200 metres details	Renate Stecher   East Germany	22.7 CR	Györgyi Balogh   Hungary	23.2	Irena Szewińska   Poland	23.3
400 metres details	Helga Seidler   East Germany	52.1	Inge Bödding   West Germany	52.9	Ingelore Lohse   East Germany	52.9
800 metres details	Vera Nikolić   Yugoslavia	2:00.0 CR	Pat Lowe   Great Britain	2:01.7	Rosemary Stirling   Great Britain	2:02.1
1500 metres details	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 details	Karin Balzer   East Germany	12.94 CR	Annelie Ehrhardt   East Germany	13.0	Teresa Sukniewicz   Poland	13.2
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Ilona Gusenbauer   Austria	1.87 m CR	Cornelia Popescu Romania	1.85 m
			Barbara Inkpen   Great Britain	1.85 m
Long jump details	Ingrid Mickler   West Germany	6.76 m CR	Meta Antenen   Switzerland	6.73 m	Heide Rosendahl   West Germany	6.66 m
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova   Soviet Union	20.16 m	Marita Lange   East Germany	19.25 m	Margitta Gummel   East Germany	19.22 m
Discus throw details	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 details	Daniela Jaworska   Poland	61.00 m CR	Ameli Koloska   West Germany	59.40 m	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	59.16 m
Pentathlon details	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. ^[8]

•   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

1. Marshall, Ron (August 9, 1971), Britain's four gold prospects, Glasgow Herald, p. 5, retrieved September 8, 2014
2. Bedford left trailing by flying Finn, Glasgow Herald, August 11, 1971, p. 6, retrieved September 8, 2014
3. Davies finishes fourth in long jump, Glasgow Herald, August 12, 1971, p. 8, retrieved September 8, 2014
4. Four Games medals for Britons, Glasgow Herald, August 13, 1971, p. 6, retrieved September 8, 2014
5. Jenkins wins Britain's first gold medal, Glasgow Herald, August 14, 1971, p. 4, retrieved September 8, 2014
6. Britons take minor marathon medals, Glasgow Herald, August 16, 1971, p. 4, retrieved September 8, 2014
7. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014
8. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014