European Athletics Championships 1971/1500 m men

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	August 13th (preliminary) August 15th (final)
Medalist
gold	Francesco Arese ( ITA )
silver	Henryk Szordykowski ( POL )
bronze	Brendan Foster ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 1,500-meter race of the men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on the 13th and 15th of August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

European champion was the Italian Francesco Arese . Second place went to the Polish European Championship third from 1969 Henryk Szordykowski . Bronze went to the Briton Brendan Foster .

Note on the times

At these European Championships, the times were officially given, as was customary in the past, in values ​​rounded to tenths of a second. However, it is based on the electronic measurements, the exact hundredths of which are known and listed in the results lists of the sources. When it comes to the distances from the middle distances upwards, the differences to the values ​​officially rounded to tenths of a second do not often play the decisive role as they do on the sprint courses . Therefore, only the exact times are listed in the following summary of results.

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 33.1 min	Jim Ryun	Los Angeles , USA	July 8, 1967
European record	3: 34.0 min	Jean Wadoux	Colombes , France	June 25, 1966
Championship record	3: 39.4 min	John Whetton	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

Record improvement

In the final on August 15th, European champion Francesco Arese improved the existing EM record by - rounded - one second to 3: 38.43 minutes.  

Preliminary round

August 13, 1971, 6:30 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Volodymyr Pantelej	Soviet Union	3: 42.2 SB
2	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3: 42.3
3	Jean-Pierre Dufresne	France	3: 42.5
4th	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	3: 42.8
5	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	3: 43.2 SB
6th	Antonio Burgos	Spain	3: 43.3 SB
7th	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	3: 43.7 SB
8th	Renzo Finelli	Italy	3: 43.9
9	Gilbert van Manshoven	Belgium	3: 45.0
10	Tom Birger Hansen	Denmark	3: 46.4
11	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	3: 49.3

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jacky Boxberger	France	3: 43.6
2	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3: 43.6
3	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3: 43.6
4th	Viktor Semyashkin	Soviet Union	3: 43.7 SB
5	André Dehertoghe	Belgium	3: 43.7 SB
6th	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3: 44.0 SB
7th	Peter Stewart	Great Britain	3: 45.0 SB
8th	Slavko Koprivica	Yugoslavia	3: 48.9 SB
9	Jerzy Maluśki	Poland	3: 53.7 SB
10	Aurelio Falero	Gibraltar	4: 01.3 SB
11	Gianni Del Buono	Italy	4: 01.8 SB

Forward 3

Bram Wassenaar (left) was eliminated in seventh place in his heat, Haico Scharn (right) finished eighth in the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	BR Germany	3: 51.8
2	Francesco Arese	Italy	3: 52.1
3	John Kirkbride	Great Britain	3: 53.6
4th	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	3: 52.7
5	Jan Prasek	Poland	3: 52.8 SB
6th	Robert Leborgne	France	3: 53.3 SB
7th	Bram Wassenaar	Netherlands	3: 54.2
8th	Pavel Pěnkava	Czechoslovakia	3: 55.2 SB
9	Mikhail Shelobovsky	Soviet Union	3: 55.6
10	Mehmet Tümkan	Turkey	3: 57.4 SB

final

15th August 1971

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Francesco Arese	Italy	3: 38.43 CR
2	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3: 38.73 SB
3	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	3: 39.24 SB
4th	John Kirkbride	Great Britain	3: 39.48 SB
5	Jacky Boxberger	France	3: 39.57 SB
6th	Jean-Pierre Dufresne	France	3: 40.68 SB
7th	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	BR Germany	3: 40.78 SB
8th	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3: 40.92 SB
9	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3: 41.49 SB
10	Volodymyr Pantelej	Soviet Union	3: 42.90
11	Viktor Semyashkin	Soviet Union	3: 43.18
12	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	3: 45.68 SB

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 20, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed June 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 413 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 20, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed June 20, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on June 20, 2019