European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's long jump

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	17 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 13 (qualifying) August 14 (final)
Medalists
gold	Ingrid Mickler-Becker ( FRG )
silver	Meta antennas ( SUI )
bronze	Heide Rosendahl ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The long jump women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 13 and 14 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The long jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany won two medals with gold and bronze. The European champion was the 1968 pentathlon Olympic champion Ingrid Mickler-Becker , who had already won silver over 100 meters here and was still European champion with the sprint relay on the final day. She won Meta Antenen from Switzerland before the pentathlon vice European champion in 1969 . The world record holder Heide Rosendahl , who had already become European pentathlon champion on the day of the long jump final, won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	6.84 m	Heide Rosendahl	Turin , Italy	3rd September 1970
European record
Championship record	6.55 m	Irena Kirszenstein	EM Budapest , Hungary	3rd September 1966

Record improvement

European champion Ingrid Mickler-Becker improved the existing EM record in the final on August 14 by 21 centimeters to 6.76 m.  

qualification

August 13, 1971, 11:00 a.m.

Seventeen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.25 m. Since only seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.09 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Heide Rosendahl	BR Germany	6.40
2	Irena Szewińska	Poland	6.31
3	Margrit Olfert	GDR	6.25
4th	Barbara-Anne Barrett	Great Britain	6.23
5	Birgitta Larsson	Sweden	6.09
6th	Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland	6.03
7th	Hannah Kleinpeter	Austria	5.74
8th	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	5.73

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.41
2	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	BR Germany	6.40
3	Christa Herzog	BR Germany	6.40
4th	Meta antennas	Switzerland	6.28
5	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.17
6th	Radojka Franzotti	Yugoslavia	6.12
7th	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	6.09
8th	Tuula Rautanen	Finland	6.01
9	Jarmila Strejčková	Czechoslovakia	5.66
DNS	Odette Ducas	France

final

Bronze medalist Heide Rosendahl, one of the most successful German athletes, here on the same day European champion in the pentathlon and, among other things, Olympic champion in 1972 in the long jump and with the sprint relay / long jump world record holder

August 14, 1971, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	BR Germany	6.76 CR
2	Meta antennas	Switzerland	6.73 NO
3	Heide Rosendahl	BR Germany	6.66
4th	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.62
5	Irena Szewińska	Poland	6.62
6th	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.39
7th	Christa Herzog	BR Germany	6.38
8th	Barbara-Anne Barrett	Great Britain	6.31
9	Margrit Olfert	GDR	6.29
10	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	6.07
11	Birgitta Larsson	Sweden	6.06
12	Radojka Franzotti	Yugoslavia	6.05

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  Irena Szewinska, formerly Irena Kirszenstein (here in 2007) , at these championships again as a long jumper (in this discipline, among other things, European champion from 1966 ) reached fifth place / as a three-time Olympic champion on the sprint courses (most recently in 1976 over 400 meters ) and five-time European champion she is one of the best athletes in sports history

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  The Olympic champion from 1968 and vice European champion from 1969 Viorica Viscopoleanu came in sixth place

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  Margrit Olfert, former Margrit Herbst, finished ninth, on the same day she won bronze in the pentathlon

Web links

• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women Long Jump 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 Long Jump European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 418 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, long jump women 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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed July 5, 2019