1971 European Athletics Championships

Template:Infobox 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.

Men's results

File:0,30 mark track and field European Championship stamp of Helsinki 1971.jpg

Finnish Postage stamp

Complete results were published.

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Valeriy Borzov	10.26 Template:AthAbbr	Gerhard Wucherer	10.48	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	10.56
Template:AthleticsLink	Valeriy Borzov	20.30 Template:AthAbbr	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	20.71	Jörg Pfeifer Template:GDR	20.72
Template:AthleticsLink	David Jenkins Template:GBR2	45.45 Template:AthAbbr	Marcello Fiasconaro	45.49	Jan Werner	45.56
Template:AthleticsLink	Yevhen Arzhanov	1:45.6 Template:AthAbbr	Dieter Fromm Template:GDR	1:46.0	Andy Carter Template:GBR2	1:46.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Francesco Arese	3:38.4 Template:AthAbbr	Henryk Szordykowski	3:38.7	Brendan Foster Template:GBR2	3:39.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Juha Väätäinen	13:32.6 Template:AthAbbr	Jean Wadoux	13:33.6	Harald Norpoth	13:33.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Juha Väätäinen	27:52.8 Template:AthAbbr	Jürgen Haase Template:GDR	27:53.4	Rashid Sharafetdinov	27:56.4
Template:AthleticsLink	Karel Lismont	2:13:09 Template:AthAbbr	Trevor Wright Template:GBR2	2:13:59	Ron Hill Template:GBR2	2:14:34
Template:AthleticsLink	Nikolay Smaga	1:27:20 Template:AthAbbr	Gerhard Sperling Template:GDR	1:27:29	Paul Nihill Template:GBR2	1:27:34
Template:AthleticsLink	Veniamin Soldatenko	4:02:22 Template:AthAbbr	Christoph Höhne Template:GDR	4:04:45	Peter Selzer Template:GDR	4:06:11
Template:AthleticsLink	Frank Siebeck Template:GDR	14.00	Alan Pascoe Template:GBR2	14.09	Lubomír Nádeníček	14.30
Template:AthleticsLink	Jean-Claude Nallet	49.2 =Template:AthAbbr	Christian Rudolph Template:GDR	49.3	Dmitriy Stukalov	50.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Jean-Paul Villain	8:25.2	Dušan Moravčík	8:26.2	Pavel Sysoyev	8:26.4
Template:AthleticsLink	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman Template:Flagteam	39.3	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak Template:Flagteam	39.7	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni Template:Flagteam	39.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Thomas Jordan Martin Jellinghaus Hermann Köhler Template:Flagteam	3:02.9	Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner Template:Flagteam	3:03.6	Lorenzo Cellerino Giacomo Puosi Sergio Bello Marcello Fiasconaro Template:Flagteam	3:04.6

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Kęstutis Šapka	2.20 m	Csaba Dosa Romania	2.20 m	Rustam Akhmetov	2.20 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Wolfgang Nordwig Template:GDR	5.35 m Template:AthAbbr	Kjell Isaksson	5.30 m	Renato Dionisi	5.30 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Max Klauß Template:GDR	7.92 m	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	7.91 m	Stanisław Szudrowicz	7.87 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Jörg Drehmel Template:GDR	17.16 m w	Viktor Saneyev	17.10 m w	Carol Corbu Romania	16.87 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Hartmut Briesenick Template:GDR	21.08 m Template:AthAbbr	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg Template:GDR	20.47 m	Władysław Komar	20.04 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Ludvík Daněk	63.90 m Template:AthAbbr	Lothar Milde Template:GDR	61.62 m	Géza Fejér	61.54 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Uwe Beyer	72.36 m	Reinhard Theimer Template:GDR	71.80 m	Anatoliy Bondarchuk	71.40 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Jānis Lūsis	90.68 m	Jānis Doniņš	85.30 m	Wolfgang Hanisch Template:GDR	84.22 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Joachim Kirst Template:GDR	8196 pts Template:AthAbbr	Lennart Hedmark	8038 pts	Hans-Joachim Walde	7951 pts

Women's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Renate Stecher Template:GDR	11.4 =Template:AthAbbr	Ingrid Mickler	11.5	Elfgard Schittenhelm	11.5
Template:AthleticsLink	Renate Stecher Template:GDR	22.7 Template:AthAbbr	Györgyi Balogh	23.2	Irena Szewińska	23.3
Template:AthleticsLink	Helga Seidler Template:GDR	52.1	Inge Bödding	52.9	Ingelore Lohse Template:GDR	52.9
Template:AthleticsLink	Vera Nikolić	2:00.0 Template:AthAbbr	Pat Lowe Template:GBR2	2:01.7	Rosemary Stirling Template:GBR2	2:02.1
Template:AthleticsLink	Karin Burneleit Template:GDR	4:09.62 Template:AthAbbr, Template:AthAbbr,	Gunhild Hoffmeister Template:GDR	4:10.3	Ellen Tittel	4:10.4
Template:AthleticsLink	Karin Balzer Template:GDR	12.94 Template:AthAbbr	Annelie Ehrhardt Template:GDR	13.0	Teresa Sukniewicz	13.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Irrgang Ingrid Mickler Template:Flagteam	43.3 Template:AthAbbr	Karin Balzer Renate Stecher Petra Vogt Ellen Stropahl Template:Flagteam	43.6	Lyudmila Zharkova Galina Bukharina Marina Sidorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Template:Flagteam	44.5
Template:AthleticsLink	Rita Kühne Ingelore Lohse Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt Template:Flagteam	3:29.3 Template:AthAbbr	Anette Rückes Christel Frese Hildegard Falck Inge Bödding Template:Flagteam	3:33.0	Raissa Nikaronova Vera Popkova Nadezhda Kolesnikova Natalya Chistyakova Template:Flagteam	3:34.1

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Ilona Gusenbauer	1.87 m Template:AthAbbr	Cornelia Popescu Romania	1.85 m
			Barbara Inkpen Template:GBR2	1.85 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Ingrid Mickler	6.76 m Template:AthAbbr	Meta Antenen	6.73 m	Heide Rosendahl	6.66 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Nadezhda Chizhova	20.16 m	Marita Lange Template:GDR	19.25 m	Margitta Gummel Template:GDR	19.22 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Faina Melnik	64.22 m Template:AthAbbr, Template:AthAbbr	Liesel Westermann	61.68 m	Lyudmila Muravyova	59.48 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Daniela Jaworska	61.00 m Template:AthAbbr	Ameli Koloska	59.40 m	Ruth Fuchs Template:GDR	59.16 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Heide Rosendahl	4675 pts	Burglinde Pollak Template:GDR	4638 pts	Margrit Herbst Template:GDR	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.

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