European Athletics Championships 1971/100 m men

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Valery Borsov ( URS )
silver	Gerhard Wucherer ( FRG )
bronze	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos ( GRE )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 100-meter race of the men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 11 August 1972 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

European champion was defending champion Valery Borsov from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the German sprinter Gerhard Wucherer . Bronze went to the Greek Vasilis Papageorgopoulos .

Records

Preliminary remark:
In these years there was a dichotomy in terms of best performances and records. Hand-stopped and electronically determined services were performed side by side. The official times were usually given in tenths of a second, which were rounded if electronic measurements were available. Due to the elimination of the reaction time of the timekeeper with electronic timekeeping, the discussion was about introducing a so-called pre-set value in order not to automatically improve the hand-stopped performance. But the correct specification of these times remained, which were later also officially listed with hundredths of a second after the decimal point.

Official records - given in tenths of a second

Existing records

World record	9.9 s	Jim Hines	Sacramento , USA	June 20, 1968
		Ronnie Ray Smith
		Charles Greene
		Jim Hines	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
European record	10.0 s	Armin Hary	Zurich , Switzerland	June 21, 1960
		Roger Bambuck	Sacramento , USA (preliminary)	June 20, 1968
			Sacramento , USA (semi-finals)
		Vladislav Sapeja	Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia )	20th July 1968
			Leninakan (now Gyumri ), Soviet Union (now Armenia )	15th August 1968
		Valery Borsov	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	18th August 1969
		Gert Metz	Gretesch Castle , FR Germany (now Germany )	June 16, 1970
		Manfred Kokot	Erfurt , GDR (now Germany )	May 15, 1971
		Valery Borsov	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	June 21, 1971
EM record	10.3 s	Marian Foik	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 12, 1962
		Peter Gamper
		Alfred Hebauf

Record settings

The wind conditions were very unfavorable in most of the races, there was not a single run with a tailwind. Fast times were hardly possible.

The existing championship record of 10.3 s was set twice:

•  Gerhard Wucherer - 3rd preliminary on August 10th
•  Valery Borsov - final on August 11th

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	9.95 s	Jim Hines	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
European record	10.11 s	Roger Bambuck
EM record	10.35 s	Armin Hary	EM Stockholm , Sweden	20th August 1958

Record improvements

The existing championship record has been improved twice:

• 10.33 s - Gerhard Wucherer - 3rd advance on August 10th 
• 10.27 s - Valery Borsov , final on August 11th 

Note on the indication of personal bests and personal bests of the season

In the source used here on the homepage of the European Athletics Association (EAA) , a large number of services are provided with the reference to a personal best season ( SB ) or personal best ( PB ). This addition is not found in other sources. In the sprint competitions, it cannot be determined whether the EAA's information refers to the exact electronic values ​​or to the official times rounded to tenths of a second, which in many cases makes a difference. In addition, these record comments on the EAA homepage are by no means always correct. For these reasons, this information is not included in the following summary of results.

Preliminary round

August 10, 1971

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.6	10.57
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.6	10.62
3	Karlheinz Klotz	BR Germany	10.8	10.75
4th	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.8	10.84
5	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	11.0	10.95
6th	Ole Egil Reitan	Norway	11.1	11.14

Forward 2

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.6	10.56
2	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	10.8	10.75
3	Eckart Brieger	BR Germany	10.8	10.77
4th	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	10.8	10.82
5	José Luis Sánchez	Spain	10.9	10.87
6th	Petr Utekal	Czechoslovakia	11.0	10.98
7th	Alexandru Munteanu	Romania	11.0	10.99
8th	Ertün petroleum	Turkey	11.2	11.22

Forward 3

Wiesław Maniak, European champion from 1966 , did not make it this time

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Gerhard Wucherer	BR Germany	10.3 CRe	10.33 CRel
2	Gilles Échevin	France	10.4	10.44
3	Alexandr Korneljuk	Soviet Union	10.4	10.44
4th	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.5	10.45
5	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.7	10.74
6th	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.8	10.77
7th	Manfred Kokot	GDR	10.8	10.78
8th	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	11.0	11.00

Forward 4

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.5	10.46
2	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	10.6	10.56
3	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.7	10.69
4th	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.7	10.71
5	Tadeusz Cuch	Poland	10.8	10.75
6th	Søren Viggo Pedersen	Denmark	10.8	10.83
7th	René Metz	France	11.3	11.27

Semifinals

August 11, 1971, 5:15 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Gilles Échevin	France	10.4	10.44
2	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.5	10.51
3	Alexandr Korneljuk	Soviet Union	10.5	10.52
4th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	10.5	10.54
5	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	10.7	10.68
6th	Karlheinz Klotz	BR Germany	10.7	10.69
7th	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.7	10.70
DNS	Raimo Vilén	Finland

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.4	10.36
2	Gerhard Wucherer	BR Germany	10.4	10.44
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.6	10.56
4th	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.6	10.60
5	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.6	10.62
6th	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	GDR	10.8	10.75
7th	Eckart Brieger	BR Germany	10.8	10.77
8th	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.8	10.84

final

August 11, 1971, 6:55 pm

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	10.3 CRe	10.27 CRel
2	Gerhard Wucherer	BR Germany	10.5	10.49
3	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.6	10.56
4th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	10.6	10.63
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.7	10.66
6th	Alexandr Korneljuk	Soviet Union	10.7	10.66
7th	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.7	10.67
8th	Gilles Échevin	France	11.4	k. A.

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  Bronze medalist Vasilis Papageorgopoulos

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  Valery Borsov (here in 2012) defended his title from 1969 and then also won the 200-meter run - a year later he was double Olympic champion on both sprint courses

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 17, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men 100m on todor66.com, accessed June 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 412 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 17, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed June 17, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , p. 6 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 17, 2019 (French / English)
3. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 18, 2019