1971 European Athletics Championships

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]}

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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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

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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

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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

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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)