European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's Shot Put
10th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Shot Put Women |
city | Helsinki |
Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Participants | 14 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | August 10 |
Medalists | |
gold | Nadezhda Tschischowa ( URS ) |
silver | Marita Lange ( GDR ) |
bronze | Margitta Gummel ( GDR ) |
The shot put women at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 12 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.
In this competition there were two medals for the GDR: silver and bronze. This time, too, the medals of major international championships since 1966 remained with the same three athletes, only the order among each other changed once again. The European champion was the 1968 Olympic runner-up, Nadezhda Tschischowa from the USSR. After 1966 and 1969, she won her third European Championship title here. Silver went to the third of the 1968 Olympic Games and the 1966 and 1969 European Championships, Marita Lange . The Olympic champion from 1968 and vice European champion from 1966 and 1969 Margitta Gummel took third place.
Existing records
World record | 20.43 m | Nadezhda Tschischowa | EM in Athens , Greece | 16th September 1969 |
European record | ||||
EM record |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
execution
Only fourteen participants entered this competition. So a qualification could be omitted, all athletes went to the final together.
final
August 10, 1971
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Nadezhda Tschischowa | Soviet Union | 20.16 |
2 | Marita Lange | GDR | 19.25 |
3 | Margitta Gummel | GDR | 19.22 |
4th | Antonina Ivanova | Soviet Union | 18.80 |
5 | Hannelore Friedel | GDR | 18.52 |
6th | Ivanka Christowa | Bulgaria | 17.78 |
7th | Galina Nekrasova | Soviet Union | 17.56 |
8th | Judit Bognár | Hungary | 17.33 |
9 | Els van Noorduyn | Netherlands | 16.68 |
10 | Ludwika Chewińska | Poland | 16.64 |
11 | Sigrun Kofink | BR Germany | 16.27 |
12 | Helena Fibingerová | Czechoslovakia | 15.73 |
13 | Brigitte Berendonk | BR Germany | 15.39 |
14th | Christine Barck | Finland | 14.42 |
The 1968 Olympic champion Margitta Gummel won bronze this time
Helena Fibingerová (here in 2012) came in twelfth place and was at the beginning of a successful career with medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships - greatest success: the World Cup title in 1983
Web links
- European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 5, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 418f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 5, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
- 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed July 5, 2019