European Athletics Championships 1971/5000 m men

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 5000 meter run
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary) August 15th (final)
Medalist
gold	Juha Väätäinen ( FIN )
silver	Jean Wadoux ( FRA )
bronze	Harald Norpoth ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 5000-meter race of the men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on the 12th and 15th of August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The European champion was Juha Väätäinen from Finland , who had already won the 10,000 meter run four days earlier . Second place went to the French European record holder over 1500 meters, Jean Wadoux. Bronze went to the Federal German Vice European Champion from 1966 and Olympic runner-up from 1964 Harald Norpoth .

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 electronic measurements, the exact hundredths of which are mostly known and are usually 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 . For this reason, only the exact times are listed in the following summary of results - as far as known.

Records

Existing records

World record	13: 16.6 min	Ron Clarke	Stockholm , Sweden	5th July 1966
European record	13: 22.2 min	David Bedford	Edinburgh , UK	June 12, 1971
EM record	13: 42.8 min	Michel Jazy	EM Budapest , Hungary	4th September 1966

Record improvement

European champion Juha Väätäinen improved the existing EM record in the final on August 15th by - rounded - 10.3 seconds to 13: 32.48 minutes.  

Preliminary round

August 12, 1971, 7:30 p.m.

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

Forward 1

Sixth place in his preliminary run was not enough for Jos Hermens to reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jean Wadoux	France	13: 44.2
2	Javier Álvarez	Spain	13: 44.2
3	Harald Norpoth	BR Germany	13: 45.6
4th	Michael Baxter	Great Britain	13: 45.6
5	Rune Holmén	Finland	13: 46.4 SB
6th	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	13: 47.2 NO
7th	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	13: 49.0 PB
DNS	Yuri Aleksashin	Soviet Union
	Werner Doessegger	Switzerland
	Jürgen Haase	GDR

Forward 2

Egbert Nijstadt (here leading in a race in 1968) was eliminated as seventh in his preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Juha Väätäinen	Finland	13: 47.6
2	Bernd Dießner	GDR	13: 49.8 SB
3	Bronislaw Malinowski	Poland	13: 50.0
4th	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	13: 52.8
5	Petras Simonelis	Soviet Union	13: 54.4
6th	Alan Blinston	Great Britain	14: 01.2
7th	Egbert Nijstadt	Netherlands	14: 05.2
8th	Wolfgang Falke	BR Germany	14: 05.6
9	Giuseppe Ardizzone	Italy	14: 06.6
10	Jean-Yves Le Flohic	France	14: 10.2
11	Donald Walsh	Ireland	14: 12.6 PB

Forward 3

With ninth place in his race, Michel Bernard retired in the preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	13: 50.4
2	Frank Eisenberg	GDR	13: 52.4
3	Allan Rushmer	Great Britain	13: 52.6
4th	Let Virén	Finland	13: 53.2
5	Vladimir Afonin	Soviet Union	13: 53.6
6th	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	13: 54.8 SB
7th	Werner Girke	BR Germany	13: 56.0 SB
8th	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	13: 58.6 SB
9	Michel Bernard	France	14: 02.2
DNF	Arne Kvalheim	Norway

final

Juha Väätäinen (here in 2011) - double European champion over 5000 and 10,000 meters

August 15, 1971, 6:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Juha Väätäinen	Finland	13: 32.48 CR / NO
2	Jean Wadoux	France	13: 33.56 SB
3	Harald Norpoth	BR Germany	13: 33.79 SB
4th	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	13: 34.88
5	Javier Álvarez	Spain	13: 35.84
6th	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	13: 36.60 SB
7th	Let Virén	Finland	13: 38.46
8th	Bronislaw Malinowski	Poland	13: 39.33 NO
9	Frank Eisenberg	GDR	13: 41.07 SB
10	Petras Simonelis	Soviet Union	13: 42.78
11	Michael Baxter	Great Britain	13: 43.16 SB
12	Rune Holmén	Finland	13: 46.50
13	Allan Rushmer	Great Britain	13: 48.19 SB
14th	Bernd Dießner	GDR	13: 50.79
DNF	Vladimir Afonin	Soviet Union

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  Harald Norpoth (here in 1963 as second behind Michel Jazy) won bronze

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  Emiel Puttemans (in the middle of the photo) came in sixth

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  The eighth place Bronisław Malinowski (on the photo in the leading position) - later among other things Olympic champion 1980 and European champion 1974 over 3000 meters obstacle

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 20, 2019
• Men 5000m 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 5000m 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, 5000 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. 5000 m men , accessed June 20
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Men , p. 13 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 20, 2019 (Spanish / English)