European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's pole vault

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 11th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalists
gold	Wolfgang Nordwig ( GDR )
silver	Kjell Isaksson ( SWE )
bronze	Renato Dionisi ( ITA )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The pole vault men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 13 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

European champion was the two-time title winner of 1966 / 1969 and Olympic bronze medalist from 1968 Wolfgang Nordwig from the GDR. As at the European Championships in 1969, the Swede Kjell Isaksson took second place. Bronze went to the Italian Renato Dionisi .

Records

Existing records

World record	5.49 m	Christos Papanikolaou	Athens , Greece	October 24, 1970
European record
EM record	5.30 m	Wolfgang Nordwig	EM in Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Wolfgang Nordwig improved his own championship record in the final on August 13th by five centimeters to 5.35 meters.  

qualification

August 11, 1971

Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.00 m. Twelve athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the day after next.

With his 4.90 m Wojciech Buciarski missed the final by ten centimeters

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	5.00
	Yuri Issakov	Soviet Union	5.00
	Renato Dionisi	Italy	5.00
4th	Heinfried Engel	BR Germany	5.00
5	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	5.00
6th	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	5.00 SB
	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler	BR Germany	5.00
8th	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.00
9	Hans Lagerqvist	Sweden	5.00
10	Altti Alarotu	Finland	5.00 SB
11	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	5.00
12	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.00 SB
13	Wojciech Buciarski	Poland	4.90 SB
	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	4.90 SB
15th	Yevgeny Tananika	Soviet Union	4.90 SB
16	Serge Lefebvre	France	4.70 SB
17th	Aldo Righi	Italy	4.60 SB
NM	Mike Bull	Great Britain	without height
	François Tracanelli	France
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece

final

Wolfgang Nordwig secured his third European Championship title after winning the Olympic bronze in 1968 - in 1972 he won Olympic gold

August 13, 1971, 1:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	5.35 CR
2	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.30 SB
3	Renato Dionisi	Italy	5.30 SB
4th	Hans Lagerqvist	Sweden	5.25 SB
5	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	5.10 PB
6th	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	5.10 SB
7th	Yuri Issakov	Soviet Union	5.10 SB
8th	Heinfried Engel	BR Germany	5.10 SB
9	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.00 SBe
10	Altti Alarotu	Finland	4.90
11	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler	BR Germany	4.90
12	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	4.90

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 25, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed June 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Pole Vault Jump European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 414 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, men's pole vault on sportschau.de, accessed on June 25, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. Pole Vault Men , accessed June 10, 2019