1971 European Athletics Championships Explained

10th European Athletics Championships
Colour:
  1. E0ECF8
Host City:Helsinki, Finland
Dates:10 – 15 August
Stadium:Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Level:Senior
Type:Outdoor
Nations Participating:29
Athletes Participating:857
Events:38
Previous:1969 Athens
Next: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

Complete results were published.

Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Valeriy Borzov
10.26 Gerhard Wucherer
10.48Vasilis Papageorgopoulos
10.56
Valeriy Borzov
20.30 Franz-Peter Hofmeister
20.71Jörg Pfeifer
20.72
David Jenkins
45.45 Marcello Fiasconaro
45.49Jan Werner
45.56
Yevhen Arzhanov
1:45.6 Dieter Fromm
1:46.0Andy Carter
1:46.2
Francesco Arese
3:38.4 Henryk Szordykowski
3:38.7Brendan Foster
3:39.2
Juha Väätäinen
13:32.6 Jean Wadoux
13:33.6Harald Norpoth
13:33.8
Juha Väätäinen
27:52.8 Jürgen Haase
27:53.4Rashid Sharafetdinov
27:56.4
Karel Lismont
2:13:09 Trevor Wright
2:13:59Ron Hill
2:14:34
Nikolay Smaga
1:27:20 Gerhard Sperling
1:27:29Paul Nihill
1:27:34
Veniamin Soldatenko
4:02:22 Christoph Höhne
4:04:45Peter Selzer
4:06:11
Frank Siebeck
14.00Alan Pascoe
14.09Lubomír Nádeníček
14.30
Jean-Claude Nallet
49.2 =Christian Rudolph
49.3Dmitriy Stukalov
50.0
Jean-Paul Villain
8:25.2Dušan Moravčík
8:26.2Pavel Sysoyev
8:26.4
Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Luděk Bohman
39.3Gerard Gramse
Tadeusz Cuch
Zenon Nowosz
Marian Dudziak
39.7Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni
39.8
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Thomas Jordan
Martin Jellinghaus
Hermann Köhler
3:02.9Andrzej Badeński
Jan Balachowski
Waldemar Korycki
Jan Werner
3:03.6Lorenzo Cellerino
Giacomo Puosi
Sergio Bello
Marcello Fiasconaro
3:04.6

Field

Kęstutis Šapka
2.20 m2.20 mRustam Akhmetov
2.20 m
Wolfgang Nordwig
5.35 m Kjell Isaksson
5.30 mRenato Dionisi
5.30 m
Max Klauß
7.92 mIgor Ter-Ovanesyan
7.91 mStanisław Szudrowicz
7.87 m
Jörg Drehmel
17.16 m wViktor Saneyev
17.10 m w16.87 m
Hartmut Briesenick
21.08 m Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg
20.47 mWładysław Komar
20.04 m
Ludvík Daněk
63.90 m Lothar Milde
61.62 mGéza Fejér
61.54 m
Uwe Beyer
72.36 mReinhard Theimer
71.80 mAnatoliy Bondarchuk
71.40 m
Jānis Lūsis
90.68 mJānis Doniņš
85.30 mWolfgang Hanisch
84.22 m
Joachim Kirst
8196 pts Lennart Hedmark
8038 ptsHans-Joachim Walde
7951 pts

Women's results

Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Renate Stecher
11.4 =Ingrid Mickler
11.5Elfgard Schittenhelm
11.5
Renate Stecher
22.7 Györgyi Balogh
23.2Irena Szewińska
23.3
Helga Seidler
52.1Inge Bödding
52.9Ingelore Lohse
52.9
Vera Nikolić
2:00.0 Pat Lowe
2:01.7Rosemary Stirling
2:02.1
Karin Burneleit
4:09.62,,Gunhild Hoffmeister
4:10.3Ellen Tittel
4:10.4
Karin Balzer
12.94 Annelie Ehrhardt
13.0Teresa Sukniewicz
13.2
Elfgard Schittenhelm
Inge Helten
Annegret Irrgang
Ingrid Mickler
43.3 Karin Balzer
Renate Stecher
Petra Vogt
Ellen Stropahl
43.6Lyudmila Zharkova
Galina Bukharina
Marina Sidorova
Nadezhda Besfamilnaya
44.5
Rita Kühne
Ingelore Lohse
Helga Seidler
Monika Zehrt
3:29.3 Anette Rückes
Christel Frese
Hildegard Falck
Inge Bödding
3:33.0Raissa Nikaronova
Vera Popkova
Nadezhda Kolesnikova
Natalya Chistyakova
3:34.1

Field

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Ilona Gusenbauer
1.87 m 1.85 m
Barbara Inkpen
1.85 m
Ingrid Mickler
6.76 m Meta Antenen
6.73 mHeide Rosendahl
6.66 m
Nadezhda Chizhova
20.16 mMarita Lange
19.25 mMargitta Gummel
19.22 m
Faina Melnik
64.22 m, Liesel Westermann
61.68 mLyudmila Muravyova
59.48 m
Daniela Jaworska
61.00 m Ameli Koloska
59.40 mRuth Fuchs
59.16 m
Heide Rosendahl
4675 ptsBurglinde Pollak
4638 ptsMargrit Herbst
4570 pts

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.

References