European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's javelin

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	26 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalists
gold	Jānis Lūsis ( URS )
silver	Jānis Doniņš ( URS )
bronze	Wolfgang Hanisch ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The javelin men in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 11 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

In this competition, the Soviet throwers recorded a double victory. European champion was the 1968 Olympic champion Jānis Lūsis , who already secured his fourth European title here . Second place went to Jānis Doniņš. Wolfgang Hanisch from the GDR won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	92.70 m	Jorma Kinnunen	Tampere , Finland	June 18, 1969
European record
Championship record	91.52 m	Jānis Lūsis	EM Athens , Greece	19th September 1969

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

qualification

For Gergely Kulcsár, the multiple medal winner at the Olympic Games and European Championships, it was no longer enough to make it to the finals

August 10, 1971, 6:00 p.m.

26 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 78.00 m. Since only ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 77.52 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	84.44	-	-	84.44
2	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	65.04	74.80	81.72	81.72
3	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	80.78	77.28	-	80.78
4th	Klaus Wolfermann	BR Germany	80.14	-	-	80.14
5	Jānis Doniņš	Soviet Union	79.12	-	-	79.12
6th	József Csik	Hungary	75.52	73.60	78.80	78.80 SB
7th	Wladyslaw Nikiciuk	Poland	74.56	78.80	-	78.80
8th	Hermann Schlechter	BR Germany	78.68	-	-	78.68
9	Miklós Németh	Hungary	78.28			78.28 SB
10	Jorma Kinnunen	Finland	76.12	x	78.12	78.12
11	Urs von Wartburg	Switzerland	75.06	77.84	x	77.84 SB
12	Renzo Cramerotti	Italy	77.52	x	69.66	77.52
13	Lech Krupiński	Poland	76.60	x	x	76.60 SB
14th	Zygmunt Jałoszyński	Poland	71.08	x	76.54	76.54
15th	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	76.48	x	75.30	76.48
16	Manuel Ibanez	France	76.44	x	68.92	76.44
17th	Jan Pedersen	Norway	75.62	71.66	x	75.62 PB
18th	Alexander Makarov	Soviet Union	71.42	x	75.60	75.60 SB
19th	Jorma Jaakola	Finland	76.64	x	73.80	76.64 SB
20th	Dave Travis	Great Britain	72.70	x	73.32	73.32 SB
21st	Gerd Simonsen	BR Germany	73.26	66.16	71.70	73.26
22nd	Jan Svensson	Sweden	67.76	73.14	x	73.14 PB
23	Arve Olsson	Norway	72.74	x	x	72.74
24	Jan Bohman	Sweden	72.44	72.12	x	72.44 SB
25th	Manfred Stolle	GDR	68.18	x	x	68.18 SB
26th	Per-Eric Smiding	Sweden	x	x	62.34	62.34 SB

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  Dave Travis, European Championship ninth in 1969 , retired with 72.32 m in the qualification

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  Manfred Stolle, fifth in the Olympics in 1968 , had no chance of making it to the final with 69.18 m

final

August 11, 1971, 5:17 pm

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	82.78	90.68	84.76	x	x	82.32	90.68 SB
2	Jānis Doniņš	Soviet Union	85.30	81.08	82.20	-	-	x	85.30
3	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	79.38	77.16	84.22	x	78.50	77.94	84.22 SB
4th	Hannu Siitonen	Finland	73.90	81.08	x	83.94	x	77.70	83.94 SB
5	Jorma Kinnunen	Finland	79.84	80.96	x	x	x	77.94	80.96 SB
6th	Klaus Wolfermann	BR Germany	x	80.06	80.82	78.14	76.12	77.36	80.82 SB
7th	Wladyslaw Nikiciuk	Poland	x	79.90	80.56	79.02	79.40	77.68	80.56 SB
8th	Hermann Schlechter	BR Germany	70.86	80.24	x	71.68	69.38	75.08	80.24 PB
9	Miklós Németh	Hungary	76.58	76.82	75.44	not in the final of the eight best throwers			76.82
10	József Csik	Hungary	75.58	76.24	75.88				76.24
11	Renzo Cramerotti	Italy	72.38	72.92	71.28				72.92
12	Urs von Wartburg	Switzerland	68.96	x	72.38				72.38

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  The 1968 Olympic champion Jānis Lūsis (here in 2011) won his fourth European Championship title in a row

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  There was bronze for Wolfgang Hanisch - he won further EM medals in 1974 (silver) and 1978 (bronze), and in 1980 he became Olympic Knight

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  Klaus Wolfermann - here in 2011 - came in sixth place, the following year he became Olympic champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 28, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed June 28, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Javelin Throw European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 415f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 28, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 28, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved June 28, 2019