European Athletics Championships 1971

10th European Athletics Championships
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Competitions	38
World records	3
More European records	2
opening	August 10, 1971
Closing ceremony	15th August 1971
timeline
← Athens 1969	Rome 1974 →

Medal table  (final result after 38 decisions)
space	country
1	GDR	12	13	7th	32
2	USSR	9	3	8th	20th
3	BR Germany	5	7th	5	17th
4th	Czechoslovakia	2	1	1	4th
5	France	2	1	-	3
6th	Finland	2	-	-	2
7th	Great Britain	1	3	6th	10
8th	Poland	1	3	5	9
9	Italy	1	1	3	5
10	Belgium	1	-	-	1
	Yugoslavia	1	-	-	1
	Austria	1	-	-	1
Complete medal table

The 10th European Athletics Championships took place from 10 to 15 August 1971 in Helsinki . With the exception of the marathon and the walking competitions , the competitions were held in the 1952 Olympic Stadium.

Competitions

There were no changes in the competition this year compared to the European Championships in 1969

Athletic performance

• Three new world records have been set:
  • Faina Melnik from the Soviet Union achieved a distance of 64.22 m in the discus throw .
  • Karin Burneleit ( GDR ) ran the 1500 meters in 4: 09.6 minutes.
  • The 4 x 400 meter relay of women from the GDR achieved a time of 3: 29.3 minutes.
• There was also a European record:
  • The German women's 4 x 100 meter relay ran for 43.3 s.
• Five athletes won two gold medals each at these championships:
  • Valery Borsov (Soviet Union) - 100 meters , 200 meters
  • Juha Väätäinen ( Finland ) - 5000 meters , 10,000 meters
  • Renate Stecher (GDR) - 100 meters, 200 meters
  • Helga Seidler (GDR) - 400 meters, 4 × 400 m relay
  • Ingrid Mickler-Becker (BR Germany) - long jump , 4 × 100 m relay
• Seven of the European champion from 1971 had previously EM won -Titel:
  • Jānis Lūsis (Soviet Union) - javelin throw , fourth success in a row since 1962
  • Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) - pole vault , third success in a row since 1966
  • Karin Balzer (GDR) - hurdles sprint, third success in a row since 1966 ( 1969 and 1971: 100 meter hurdles / 1966: 80 meter hurdles )
  • Nadezhda Tschischowa (Soviet Union) - Shot put , third success in a row since 1966
  • Valery Borsov (Soviet Union) - 100 meters, repetition of his success from 1969, in addition winner in 1971 over 200 meters, so now three-time European champion
  • Joachim Kirst (GDR) - Decathlon , repetition of his success from 1969
  • Vera Nikolić ( Yugoslavia ) - 800 meters , repetition of her 1966 success

Results men

Valery Borsov (here in 2012) also won both European Championship titles on the short distances after his Olympic sprint double victory

100 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/100 m men

space	athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Valery Borsov	URS	10.3 CRe	10.27 CRel
2	Gerhard Wucherer	FRG	10.5	10.49
3	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	GRE	10.6	10.56
4th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	10.6	10.63
5	Zenon Nowosz	POLE	10.7	10.66
6th	Alexandr Korneljuk	URS	10.7	10.66
7th	Dominique Chauvelot	FRA	10.7	10.67
8th	Gilles Échevin	FRA	11.4	k. A.

Final: August 11th

Wind: −1.3 m / s

200 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/200 m men

space	athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Valery Borsov	URS	20.3 CR	20.31 CRel
2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	FRG	20.7	20.71
3	Jörg Pfeifer	GDR	20.7	20.72
4th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	20.7	20.74
5	Philippe Clerc	SUI	20.9	20.86
6th	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.9	20.88
7th	Gérard Fenouil	FRA	20.9	20.92
8th	Alexander Schidkich	URS	21.2	21.23

Final: August 13th

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

400 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/400 m men

space	athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	David Jenkins	GBR	45.5 CR / NR	45.45 CR / NO
2	Marcello Fiasconaro	ITA	45.5 NO	45.49 NO
3	Jan Werner	POLE	45.6	45.56
4th	Markku Kukkuoaho	FIN	45.7 NO	45.74 NO
5	Thomas Jordan	FRG	46.0	46.01
6th	Hermann Koehler	FRG	46.1	46.07
7th	Alexandr Bratchikov	URS	46.4	46.40
8th	Klaus Hauke	GDR	46.9	46.88

Final: August 13th

800 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/800 m men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Yevgeny Arshanov	URS	1: 45.61 CR / NO
2	Dieter Fromm	GDR	1: 46.01 SB
3	Andy Carter	GBR	1: 46.21 NO
4th	Hans-Henning Ohlert	GDR	1: 46.87 SB
5	Peter Browne	GBR	1: 47.00 SB
6th	Jozef Plachý	TCH	1: 47.33 SB
7th	Jože Međimurec	YUG	1: 48.44
8th	Philippe Meyer	FRA	1: 50.91

Final: August 12th

1500 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/1500 m men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Francesco Arese	ITA	3: 38.43 CR
2	Henryk Szordykowski	POLE	3: 38.73 SB
3	Brendan Foster	GBR	3: 39.24 SB
4th	John Kirkbride	GBR	3: 39.48 SB
5	Jacky Boxberger	FRA	3: 39.57 SB
6th	Jean-Pierre Dufresne	FRA	3: 40.68 SB
7th	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	FRG	3: 40.78 SB
8th	Haico Scharn	NED	3: 40.92 SB

Final: August 15th

5000 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/5000 m men

Juha Väätäinen (here in 2011) was a master of long-distance rail

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Juha Väätäinen	FIN	13: 32.48 CR / NO
2	Jean Wadoux	FRA	13: 33.56 SB
3	Harald Norpoth	FRG	13: 33.79 SB
4th	Danijel Korica	YUG	13: 34.88
5	Javier Álvarez	ESP	13: 35.84
6th	Emiel Puttemans	BEL	13: 36.60 SB
7th	Let Virén	FIN	13: 38.46
8th	Bronislaw Malinowski	POLE	13: 39.33 NO

Final: August 14th

10,000 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / 10,000 m men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Juha Väätäinen	FIN	27: 52.78 CR / NO
2	Jürgen Haase	GDR	27: 53.35 DR
3	Raschid Sharafetdinov	URS	27: 56.26 NO
4th	Danijel Korica	YUG	27: 58.38 NO
5	Mariano Haro	ESP	27: 59.33 NO
6th	David Bedford	GBR	28: 04.33
7th	Mike Tagg	GBR	28: 14.65 PB
8th	Seppo Tuminen	FIN	28: 17.98 SB

Date: August 10th

marathon

Karel Lismont won by fifty seconds

→ Main article : 1971 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Karel Lismont	BEL	2: 13: 09.0 SB
2	Trevor Wright	GBR	2: 13: 59.6 SB
3	Ron Hill	GBR	2: 14: 34.8 SB
4th	Colin Kirkham	GBR	2: 16: 22.0 SB
5	Gaston Roelants	BEL	2: 17: 48.8 SB
6th	Pentti Rummakko	FIN	2: 17: 58.8 SB
7th	Lutz Philipp	FRG	2: 18: 08.6 SB
8th	Agustín Fernández	ESP	2: 18: 26.6 PB

Date: August 15th

110 m hurdles

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/110 m hurdles for men

space	athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Frank Siebeck	GDR	14.0	14.00
2	Alan Pascoe	GBR	14.1	14.10
3	Lubomír Nádeníček	TCH	14.3	14.31
4th	Anatoly Moshiashvili	URS	14.4	14.36
5	Leszek Wodzyński	POLE	14.4	14.37
6th	Sergio Liani	ITA	14.4	14.40
7th	Marek Jóźwik	POLE	14.5	14.48
8th	Mirosław Wodzyński	POLE	14.8	14.78

Final: August 15th

Wind: −2.5 m / s

400 m hurdles

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/400 m hurdles for men

space	athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Jean-Claude Nallet	FRA	49.2 CRe	49.15 CRel
2	Christian Rudolph	GDR	49.3 NO	49.34 NO
3	Dimitri Stukalov	URS	50.0	50.04
4th	Dieter Büttner	FRG	50.1	50.09
5	Yevgeny Gavrilenko	URS	50.5	50.51
6th	Ari Salin	FIN	50.6	50.57
7th	Vyacheslav Skomorokhov	URS	50.8	50.84
8th	Ivan Danis	TCH	51.8	51.76

Final: August 12th

3000 m obstacle

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/3000 m obstacle men

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jean-Paul Villain	FRA	8: 25.12 NO
2	Dušan Moravčík	TCH	8: 26.11 NO
3	Pavel Syssoyev	URS	8: 26.42 PB
4th	Romualdas Bitė	URS	8: 26.97 PB
5	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	FIN	8: 30.94
6th	Georgi Tikhov	BUL	8: 32.15
7th	Kazimierz Maranda	POLE	8: 33.05
8th	Józef Rębacz	POLE	8: 35.12

Final: August 15th

4 × 100 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/4 × 100 m men

space	country	Athletes	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.3	39.32
2	Poland	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak	39.7	39.72
3	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni	39.8	39.78
4th	Great Britain	Brian Green Martin Reynolds Don Halliday Les Piggot	39.8	39.78
5	USSR	Alexandr Korneljuk Alexandr Schidkich Alexandr Lebedew Alexei Tschebykin	40.0	40.00
DSQ	BR Germany	Manfred Ommer Karlheinz Klotz Gerhard Wucherer Franz-Peter Hofmeister
	GDR	Hans-Jürgen Bombach Jörg Pfeifer Hermann Burde Hans-Joachim Zenk
	France	Dominique Chauvelot Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil Jean-Pierre Grès

Final: August 15th

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/4 × 400 men

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	BR Germany	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Thomas Jordan Martin Jellinghaus Hermann Köhler	3: 02.94 SB
2	Poland	Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner	3: 03.64 SB
3	Italy	Lorenzo Cellerino Giacomo Puosi Sergio Bello Marcello Fiasconaro	3: 04.58 SB
4th	USSR	Evgeny Borissenko Semyon Kotscher Vladimir Nossenko Alexandr Bratchikov	3: 04.82 SB
5	Great Britain	John Wilson Leonard Walters Martin Billham David Jenkins	3: 04.89 SB
6th	France	Gilles Bertould Christian Nicoleau Roger Velasquez Jean-Claude Nallet	3: 04.99 SB
7th	Sweden	Erik Carlgren Michael Fredriksson Anders Faager Lars Stubbendorff	3: 08.18
8th	Norway	Steinar Mo Gøte Lundblad Per Rome Richard Simonsen	3: 08.81

Final: August 15th

20 km walking

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/20 km walking men

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Nikolai Smaga	URS	1: 27: 20.2 CR
2	Gerhard Sperling	GDR	1: 27: 29.0 PB
3	Paul Nihill	GBR	1: 27: 34.8 PB
4th	Peter Frenkel	GDR	1: 27: 52.8 SB
5	Hans-Georg Reimann	GDR	1: 28: 56.8 SB
6th	Phil Embleton	GBR	1: 29: 31.6 PB
7th	Borys Yakovlev	URS	1: 29: 49.4 SB
8th	Yevgeny Ivchenko	URS	1: 31: 32.2 PB

Date: August 10th

50 km of walking

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/50 km men's walk

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Weniamin soldiersko	URS	4: 02: 22.0 CR
2	Christoph Höhne	GDR	4: 04: 45.2 SB
3	Peter Selzer	GDR	4: 06: 11.0 SB
4th	Otto Bartsch	URS	4: 09: 14.4 SB
5	Winfried Skotnicki	GDR	4: 10: 22.0 SB
6th	Bernhard Nermerich	FRG	4: 11: 44.0 PB
7th	Igor Della-Rossa	URS	4: 12: 08.6 PB
8th	Abdon Pamich	ITA	4: 14: 36.2 SB

Date: August 14th

high jump

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / Men's high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Kęstutis Šapka	URS	2.20 SB
2	Csaba Dosa	ROME	2.20 NO
3	Rustam Akhmetov	URS	2.20
4th	Istvan Major	HUN	2.17 SB
5	Stefan Junge	GDR	2.14
	Asko pesons	FIN	2.14 SB
7th	Wojciech Gołębiowski	POLE	2.14 PB
8th	Endre Kelemen	HUN	2.11

Final: August 14th

Wolfgang Nordwig won his third European Championship title in a row

Pole vault

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's pole vault

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	5.35 CR
2	Kjell Isaksson	SWE	5.30 SB
3	Renato Dionisi	ITA	5.30 SB
4th	Hans Lagerqvist	SWE	5.25 SB
5	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	POLE	5.10 PB
6th	John-Erik Blomqvist	SWE	5.10 SB
7th	Yuri Isakov	URS	5.10 SB
8th	Heinfried Engel	FRG	5.10 SB

Final: August 13th

Long jump

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's long jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Max Klauss	GDR	7.92 SB
2	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	URS	7.91
3	Stanislaw Szudrowicz	POLE	7.87
4th	Lynn Davies	GBR	7.85 SB
5	Mauri Myllymäki	FIN	7.85 PB
6th	Reijo Toivonen	FIN	7.82 SB
7th	Tõnu Lepik	URS	7.78
8th	Jan Kobuszewski	POLE	7.75

Final: August 11th

Jörg Drehel

Triple jump

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jörg Drehel	GDR	17.16
2	Viktor Saneyev	URS	17.10
3	Carol Corbu	ROME	16.87
4th	Michael Sauer	FRG	16.58 SB
5	Václav Fišer	TCH	16.39
6th	Heinz-Günter Schenk	GDR	16.38
7th	Gennady Bessonov	URS	16.26 SB
8th	Gennady Savlyevich	URS	16.24

Final: August 15th

Surprising victory for Jörg Drehmel ( picture on the right ) over the Olympic champion Viktor Sanejew

Hartmut Briesenick won the ball
putting with a European record

Shot put

→ Main article : 1971 European Athletics Championships / men's shot put

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	21.08 CR
2	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	20.47 SB
3	Wladyslaw Komar	POLE	20.04 SB
4th	Vilmos Varjú	HUN	19.99
5	Valery Woikin	URS	19.81 SB
6th	Rimantas Plungė	URS	19.61 SB
7th	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	19.38 SB
8th	Yves Brouzet	FRA	19.20 SB

Final: August 13th

Discus throw

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / Men's discus throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ludvík Daněk	TCH	63.90 CR
2	Lothar Milde	GDR	61.62 SB
3	Géza Fejér	HUN	61.54
4th	Dirk Wippermann	FRG	61.36
5	Hartmut Losch	GDR	60.86
6th	Pentti Kahma	FIN	60.64 SB
7th	Ferenc Tégla	HUN	59.24
8th	Jorma Rinne	FIN	59.22 SB

Final: August 15th

Hammer throw

Uwe Beyer

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's hammer throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Uwe Beyer	FRG	72.36
2	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	71.80 SB
3	Anatoly Bondarchuk	URS	71.40 SB
4th	Romuald Klim	URS	70.64 SB
5	Walter Schmidt	FRG	70.54
6th	Sándor Eckschmiedt	HUN	69.74
7th	Jochen Sachse	GDR	69.74 SB
8th	Stanislaw Lubiejewski	POLE	67.50 SB

Final: August 14th

After a few years of problems, Uwe Beyer ( right on the photo ) won the European Championship title here.

Javelin throw

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's javelin

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jānis Lūsis	URS	90.68 SB
2	Jānis Doniņš	URS	85.30
3	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	84.22 SB
4th	Hannu Siitonen	FIN	83.84 SB
5	Jorma Kinnunen	FIN	80.96 SB
6th	Klaus Wolfermann	FRG	80.82 SB
7th	Wladyslaw Nikiciuk	POLE	80.56 SB
8th	Hermann Schlechter	FRG	80.24 PB

Final: August 11th

Decathlon

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / Men's Decathlon

After a tough competition, Joachim Kirst was again crowned king of athletes

space	athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 85 value.
1	Joachim Kirst	GDR	8196 CR	8188
2	Lennart Hedmark	SWE	8038 NO	8054
3	Hans-Joachim Walde	FRG	7951 SB	7927
4th	Heinz-Ulrich Schulze	FRG	7889 PB	7841
5	Sepp Zeilbauer	AUT	7842 NO	7783
6th	Peter Gabbett	GBR	7754 PB	7692
7th	Leonid Lytwynenko	URS	7707 SB	7650
8th	Boris Ivanov	URS	7601 SB	7554

Final: 11./12. August

The scoring was based on the points table from 1964.

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved in 1985 according to the current rating system are also listed for comparison. But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Results women

Renate Stecher

100 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/100 m women

space	Athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.4 CRe	11.35 CRel
2	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	FRG	11.5	11.46
3	Elfgard Schittenhelm	FRG	11.5	11.51
4th	Inge Helten	FRG	11.5	11.55
5	Györgyi Balogh	HUN	11.6	11.59
6th	Irena Szewińska	POLE	11.6	11.63
7th	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.7	11.71
8th	Anita Neil	GBR	11.8	11.75

Final: August 11th

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

For Renate Stecher ( on the right on the photo ) there were two gold medals in the sprint and one silver in the relay at these European championships.

200 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/200 m women

space	Athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	22.7 CR	22.70 CR
2	Györgyi Balogh	HUN	23.3	23.26
3	Irena Szewińska	POLE	23.3	23.32
4th	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	URS	23.4	23.42
5	Annegret Kroniger	FRG	23.6	23.62
6th	Rita Wilden	FRG	23.6	23.62
7th	Ellen Strophal	GDR	23.6	23.63
8th	Christina Heinich	GDR	23.7	23.73

Final: August 13th

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

400 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/400 m women

space	Athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Helga Seidler	GDR	52.1 DR	52.14 DR
2	Inge Bödding	FRG	52.9	52.90
3	Ingelore Lohse	GDR	52.9	52.93
4th	Maria Sykora	AUT	53.0	53.01
5	Natalja Tschistjakowa	URS	53.2	53.19
6th	Marika Eklund	FIN	53.4	53.35
7th	Colette Besson	FRA	53.7	53.70
8th	Rita Kuehne	GDR	53.9	53.91

Final: August 12th

Vera Nikolić

800 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/800 m women

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Vera Nikolić	YUG	2:00.00
2	Pat Lowe	GBR	2: 01.66
3	Rosemary Stirling	GBR	2: 02.08
4th	Danuta Wierzbowska	POLE	2: 04.16
5	Gisela Ellenberger	FRG	2: 05.14
6th	Claire Walsh	IRL	2: 08.57
DNF	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR
	Hildegard Falck	FRG

Final: August 12th

In that race there was an unfortunate incident that knocked out two of the favorites. Gunhild Hoffmeister initially fell, and world record holder Hildegard Falck subsequently also fell, so that both runners could not finish the race.

The Exweltrekordlerin Vera Nikolic (right) - European champion in 1966 and European Championship -Third 1969 - dominated the 800-meter race very clearly.

1500 m

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/1500 m for women

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Karin Burneleit	GDR	4: 09.62 WR
2	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 10.31
3	Ellen Tittel	FRG	4: 10.35 BR
4th	Rita Ridley	GBR	4: 12.65
5	Regine Kleinau	GDR	4: 13.71
6th	Lyudmila Bragina	URS	4: 13.93
7th	Jaroslava Jehličková	TCH	4: 14.79
8th	Joan Allison	GBR	4: 14.81

Final: August 15th

100 m hurdles

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/100 m hurdles for women

Karin Balzer

space	Athlete	country	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Karin Balzer	GDR	12.9 CR	12.94 CR
2	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	13.0	12.96
3	Teresa Sukniewicz	POLE	13.2	13.21
4th	Danuta Straszyńska	POLE	13.3	13.34
5	Meta antennas	SUI	13.5	13.35
6th	Teresa Nowak	POLE	13.5	13.46
7th	Valeria Bufanu	ROME	13.5	13.47
8th	Tatiana Poluboyarova	URS	13.7	13.69

Final: August 13th

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

Karin Balzer ( photo ) won her third European Championship title on the short hurdles course .

4 × 100 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/4 × 100 m women

space	country	Athletes	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	BR Germany	Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Irrgang Ingrid Mickler-Becker	43.2 ER	43.23 ER
2	GDR	Karin Balzer Renate Stecher Petra Vogt Ellen Strophal	43.6	43.62
3	Soviet Union	Lyudmila Sharkova Galina Bukharina Marina Sidorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya	44.5	44.45
4th	Poland	Danuta Jędrejek Barbara Bakulin Urszula Jóźwik Helena Fliśnik	44.8	44.75
5	Hungary	Ilona Bruzsenyák Margit Nemesházi Györgyi Balogh Katalin Papp	44.8	44.78
6th	Great Britain	Val Peat Margaret Critchley Madeleine Cobb Elizabeth Johns	44.9	44.87
7th	France	Gabrielle Meyer Michele Bowes Nicole Pani Odette Ducas	45.5	45.50
8th	Sweden	Anneli Olsson Gun Olsson Karin Lundgren Elisabeth Randerz	46.1	46.12

Final: August 15th

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971/4 × 400 women

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Rita Kühne Ingelore Lohse Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt	3: 29.28 WR
2	BR Germany	Anette Rückes Christel Frese Hildegard Falck Inge Bödding	3: 33.04
3	USSR	Raissa Nikanorowa Vera Popkowa Nadeschda Kolesnikowa Natalja Tschistjakowa	3: 34.11
4th	Great Britain	Verona Bernard Pat Lowe Jannette Roscoe Rosemary Stirling	3: 34.52
5	Poland	Bozena Zientarska Elżbieta Skowrońska Danuta Pieczyk Krystyna Hryniewicka	3: 35.28
6th	Sweden	Lotta Malmström Ann Larsson Elisabeth Randerz Karin Lundgren	3: 37.09
7th	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Salin Ruth Lindfors Marika Eklund	3: 37.21
DNF	France	Monique Noirot Nicole Duclos Bernadette Martin Colette Besson

Final: August 15th

Success for the favorite Ilona Gusenbauer in the high jump

high jump

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space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Ilona Gusenbauer	AUT	1.87 CR
2	Cornelia Popescu	ROME	1.85
3	Barbara Inkpen	GBR	1.85
4th	Rita Schmidt	GDR	1.83
5	Milena Hübnerová	TCH	1.83
6th	Renate Gardener	FRG	1.81
7th	Milada Karbanová	TCH	1.78
8th	Snezana Hrepevnik	YUG	1.78

Final: August 12th

Long jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	FRG	6.76 CR
2	Meta antennas	SUI	6.73
3	Heide Rosendahl	FRG	6.66
4th	Sheila Sherwood	GBR	6.62
5	Irena Szewińska	POLE	6.62
6th	Viorica Viscopoleanu	ROME	6.39
7th	Christa Herzog	FRG	6.38
8th	Barbara-Anne Barrett	GBR	6.31

Final: August 14th

Shot put

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Nadezhda Tschischowa	URS	20.16
2	Marita Lange	GDR	19.25
3	Margitta Gummel	GDR	19.22
4th	Antonina Ivanova	URS	18.80
5	Hannelore Friedel	GDR	18.52
6th	Ivanka Christowa	BUL	17.78
7th	Galina Nekrasova	URS	17.56
8th	Judit Bognár	HUN	17.33

Final: August 10th

Discus throw

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Faina Melnik

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Faina Melnik	URS	64.22 WR
2	Liesel Westermann	FRG	61.68
3	Lyudmila Muravyova	URS	59.48
4th	Argentina Menis	ROME	59.04
5	Tamara Danilova	URS	58.28
6th	Olimpia Cataramă	ROME	57.22
7th	Anni Mickler	GDR	57.00
8th	Christine Spielberg	GDR	56.20

Final: August 12th

Faina Melnik ( photo ), the world's best discus thrower of her time, won the EM title.

Javelin throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Daniela Jaworska	POLE	61.00 CR
2	Ameli Koloska	FRG	59.40
3	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	59.16
4th	Angéla Ránky	HUN	57.44
5	Anneliese Gerhards	FRG	55.98
6th	Ewa Gryziecka	POLE	55.96
7th	Maria Kucserka	HUN	55.70
8th	Márta Rudas	HUN	55.62

Final: August 13th

After bronze in the long jump , Heide Rosendahl won gold in the pentathlon

Pentathlon

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's Pentathlon

space	Athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 85 value.
1	Heide Rosendahl	FRG	5299 CR	4675
2	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	5275	4638
3	Margrit Herbst	GDR	5179	4570
4th	Karen Mack	FRG	5052	4443
5	Valentina Tikhomirova	URS	4986	4375
6th	Odette Ducas	FRA	4926	4330
7th	Tatiana Kondrashova	URS	4887	4289
8th	Margit Papp	HUN	4833	4244

Final: 13./14. August

The points table from 1969 was used for scoring.

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved for the heptathlon according to the current rating system from 1985 are listed for comparison . After that, the eleventh and twelfth placed as well as fourteenth and fifteenth should have swapped their positions.

But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 22, 2017
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed June 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 22, 2017
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 22, 2017
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971 on sportschau.de, accessed on June 22, 2017
• Picture of the defeated , DER SPIEGEL 34/1971, August 16, 1971 from spiegel.de, accessed on June 22, 2017

Video

• UFA-Jetzt 786/1971 , short video about the European Championships 1971 on filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, accessed on June 22, 2017