European Athletics Championships 1971/3000 m obstacle men

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course for men
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	33 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 13th (preliminary) August 15th (final)
Medalist
gold	Jean-Paul Villain ( FRA )
silver	Dušan Moravčík ( CSK )
bronze	Pavel Syssoyev ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 3000-meter steeplechase 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 Frenchman Jean-Paul Villain . He won ahead of the Czechoslovak Dušan Moravčík. Bronze went to the Soviet runner Pavel Syssojew.

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.

Existing records

World record	8: 22.0 min	Kerry O'Brien	Berlin , FR Germany (now Germany )	19th August 1969
European record	8: 22.2 min	Vladimiras Dudinas	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	19th August 1969
EM record	8: 25.0 min	Mikhail Shelev	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 13, 1971, 8:05 pm

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	Pavel Syssoyev	Soviet Union	8: 29.65
2	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	8: 29.75 NO
3	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8: 30.87 SB
4th	Józef Rębacz	Poland	8: 33.36 SB
5	Tapio cantans	Finland	8: 35.88 SB
6th	Umberto Risi	Italy	8: 37.15 SB
7th	Spyros Kontossoros	Greece	8: 38.24 NO
8th	Paul Thijs	Belgium	8: 41.11 SB
9	Willi Wagner	BR Germany	8: 44.50 SB
10	Stalls Narrows	Norway	8: 44.68 SB
11	Gérard Delalandre	France	8: 54.70
12	Ron McAndrew	Great Britain	9: 02.11

Forward 2

After his 33rd place over 10,000 meters , Carlos Lopes also started in the obstacle course and was eliminated in eighth place - later Olympic
second in 1976 over 10,000 meters and Olympic champion in 1980 in marathon

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8: 32.81
2	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8: 33.34 SB
3	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8: 34.17
4th	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8: 34.28
5	Arne Risa	Norway	8: 35.65 SB
6th	Henryk Lesiuk	Poland	8: 40.34 SB
7th	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8: 44.34 SB
8th	Hans-Dieter Schulten	BR Germany	8: 46.98 SB
9	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	8: 54.83 SB
10	Francesco Valente	Italy	8: 57.93 PB
11	Hans Menet	Switzerland	8: 58.27 SB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gärderud is different	Sweden	8: 28.32 NO
2	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8: 28.96 SB
3	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8: 30.30 SB
4th	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8: 31.85 SB
5	Sverre Sørnes	Norway	8: 35.24
6th	Andy Holden	Great Britain	8: 36.11 SB
7th	Wigmar Petersen	Denmark	8: 36.47 NO
8th	Gérard Buchheit	France	8: 40.07 SB
9	Mikhail Shelev	Bulgaria	8: 50.64 SB
10	Milan Tomić	Yugoslavia	8: 53.31

final

August 15, 1971, 4:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8: 25.12 NO
2	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8: 26.11 NO
3	Pavel Syssoyev	Soviet Union	8: 26.42 PB
4th	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8: 26.97 PB
5	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8: 30.94
6th	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8: 32.15
7th	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8: 33.05
8th	Józef Rębacz	Poland	8: 35.12
9	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8: 38.96
10	Gärderud is different	Sweden	8: 39.58
11	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8: 55.34
DNF	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 20, 2019
• Men 3000m Steeplechase 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 3000m Steeplechase European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 414 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 3000 m obstacle 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. 3000 m obstacle men , accessed on June 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000m_Steeplechase Men , Spanish / English, p. 19 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 25, 2019