European Athletics Championships 1971/100 m women

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Renate Stecher ( GDR )
silver	Ingrid Mickler-Becker ( FRG )
bronze	Elfgard Schittenhelm ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 100-meter race of women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 11 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The athletes of the Federal Republic of Germany won two medals with silver and bronze. The co-owner of the world record Renate Stecher , previously successfully under her name Renate Meißner , became European champion . She won before Pentathlon Olympic Champion of 1968 Ingrid Becker that in these European Championships also gold in the long jump and the by-100-meter relay 4- won. Bronze went to Elfgard Schittenhelm , former Elfgard Weismann, who was also European relay champion here.

Records

Preliminary remark:
In these years there was a dichotomy in terms of best performances and records. Hand-stopped and electronically determined services were performed side by side. The official times were usually given in tenths of a second, which were rounded if electronic measurements were available. Due to the elimination of the reaction time of the timekeeper with electronic timekeeping, the discussion was about introducing a so-called pre-set value in order not to automatically improve the hand-stopped performance. But the correct specification of these times remained, which were later also officially listed with hundredths of a second after the decimal point.

Official records - given in tenths of a second

Existing records

World record	11.0 s	Chi Cheng	Vienna , Austria	18th July 1970
		Renate Meissner	East Berlin , GDR (now Germany )	2nd August 1970
		Renate Stecher		July 31, 1971
European record	11.0 s	Renate Meissner	East Berlin , GDR (now Germany )	2nd August 1970
		Renate Stecher		July 31, 1971
EM record	11.4 s	Jutta Heine	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia - semi-finals	September 13, 1962
		Ewa Kłobukowska	EM Budapest , Hungary - preliminary	August 30, 1966
			EM Budapest , Hungary - semi-finals	August 31, 1966

Record settings

European champion Renate Stecher set the existing EM record of 11.4 s twice at these European championships:  

• 4th advance on August 10th
• Final on August 11th

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	11.08 s	Wyomia Tyus	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	15th October 1968
European record	11.19 s	Irena Kirszenstein	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	15th October 1968
Championship record	11.66 s	Petra Vogt	EM Athens , Greece	17th September 1969

Record improvements

The existing EM record was improved three times at these European championships:

• 11.53 s - Ingrid Mickler-Becker 2nd preliminary on August 10th 
• 11.42 s - Renate Stecher 4th advance on August 10th 
• 11.35 s - Renate Stecher final on August 11th 

Preliminary round

August 10, 1971

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Of only twenty runners who competed, only four were eliminated in the preliminary runs. The preliminary division is rather incomprehensible afterwards. Five sprinters started each of two races, six in one. In the fourth run, there were only four participants who only had to cross the finish line to automatically qualify for the next round.

Forward 1

Wind: -1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.8	11.84
2	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.9	11.85
3	Monika Meyer	GDR	11.9	11.86
4th	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.9	11.88
5	Margit Markó	Hungary	12.1	12.10

Forward 2

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.5	11.53 CRel
2	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	11.7	11.68
3	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.7	11.73
4th	Meta antennas	Switzerland	11.8	11.79
5	Elizabeth Johns	Great Britain	11.8	11.86

Forward 3

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	BR Germany	11.6	11.56
2	Lyudmila Sharkova	Soviet Union	11.8	11.82
3	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.9	11.90
4th	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	11.9	11.92
5	Helga Kapfer	Austria	12.0	11.99
6th	Valerie Peat	Great Britain	12.1	12.07

Forward 4

Wind: -0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.4 CRe	11.42 CRel
2	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.7	11.66
3	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.9	11.91
4th	Helena Fliśnik	Poland	12.0	11.97

Semifinals

August 11, 1971, 5:00 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: -1.1 m / s

Monika Meyer, later Monika Hamman, missed the final by one place

Wilma van den Berg, later also successful as Wilma van Gool, was eliminated in seventh place in her semi-final run

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	BR Germany	11.5	11.53
2	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.6	11.56
3	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.8	11.75
4th	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.8	11.78
5	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.9	11.92
6th	Lyudmila Sharkova	Soviet Union	11.9	11.94
7th	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	12.0	12.00
DNS	Sylviane Telliez	France

Run 2

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Renate Stecher	GDR	11.5	11.50
2	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.6	11.61
3	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	11.7	11.68
4th	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.7	11.70
5	Monika Meyer	GDR	11.8	11.78
6th	Helena Fliśnik	Poland	12.0	11.97
7th	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	12.1	12.05
DNS	Meta antennas	Switzerland

final

August 11, 1971, 6:40 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	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	BR Germany	11.5	11.46
3	Elfgard Schittenhelm	BR Germany	11.5	11.51
4th	Inge Helten	BR Germany	11.6	11.55
5	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	11.6	11.59
6th	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.6	11.63
7th	Petra Vogt	GDR	11.7	11.71
8th	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.8	11.75

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  European champion Renate Stecher also won the 200-meter run two days later - in 1972 she was double Olympic champion on the short sprint courses

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  Irena Szewińska - among other things, Olympic champion in 1968 over 200 meters - achieved sixth place here, she had other great successes ahead of her, most recently the 1976 Olympic victory over 400 meters

Web links

• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women 100m on todor66.com, accessed July 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 1, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 417, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 1, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed July 1, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 48 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 1, 2019