| 10th European Athletics Championships | |
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| 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.
Complete results were published.
1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978
| Kęstutis Šapka | 2.20 m | 2.20 m | Rustam Akhmetov | 2.20 m | |||
| Wolfgang Nordwig | 5.35 m | Kjell Isaksson | 5.30 m | Renato Dionisi | 5.30 m | ||
| Max Klauß | 7.92 m | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan | 7.91 m | Stanisław Szudrowicz | 7.87 m | ||
| Jörg Drehmel | 17.16 m w | Viktor Saneyev | 17.10 m w | 16.87 m | |||
| Hartmut Briesenick | 21.08 m | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg | 20.47 m | Władysław Komar | 20.04 m | ||
| Ludvík Daněk | 63.90 m | Lothar Milde | 61.62 m | Géza Fejér | 61.54 m | ||
| Uwe Beyer | 72.36 m | Reinhard Theimer | 71.80 m | Anatoliy Bondarchuk | 71.40 m | ||
| Jānis Lūsis | 90.68 m | Jānis Doniņš | 85.30 m | Wolfgang Hanisch | 84.22 m | ||
| Joachim Kirst | 8196 pts | Lennart Hedmark | 8038 pts | Hans-Joachim Walde | 7951 pts |
1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978
| Renate Stecher | 11.4 = | Ingrid Mickler | 11.5 | Elfgard Schittenhelm | 11.5 | ||
| Renate Stecher | 22.7 | Györgyi Balogh | 23.2 | Irena Szewińska | 23.3 | ||
| Helga Seidler | 52.1 | Inge Bödding | 52.9 | Ingelore Lohse | 52.9 | ||
| Vera Nikolić | 2:00.0 | Pat Lowe | 2:01.7 | Rosemary Stirling | 2:02.1 | ||
| Karin Burneleit | 4:09.62,, | Gunhild Hoffmeister | 4:10.3 | Ellen Tittel | 4:10.4 | ||
| Karin Balzer | 12.94 | Annelie Ehrhardt | 13.0 | Teresa Sukniewicz | 13.2 | ||
| Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Irrgang Ingrid Mickler | 43.3 | Karin Balzer Renate Stecher Petra Vogt Ellen Stropahl | 43.6 | Lyudmila 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 | 3:33.0 | Raissa Nikaronova Vera Popkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova Natalya Chistyakova | 3:34.1 |
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 m | Heide Rosendahl | 6.66 m | ||
| Nadezhda Chizhova | 20.16 m | Marita Lange | 19.25 m | Margitta Gummel | 19.22 m | ||
| Faina Melnik | 64.22 m, | Liesel Westermann | 61.68 m | Lyudmila Muravyova | 59.48 m | ||
| Daniela Jaworska | 61.00 m | Ameli Koloska | 59.40 m | Ruth Fuchs | 59.16 m | ||
| Heide Rosendahl | 4675 pts | Burglinde Pollak | 4638 pts | Margrit Herbst | 4570 pts |
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.
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