European Athletics Championships 1971/1500 m for women

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500-meter run for women
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	30 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 13th (preliminary) August 15th (final)
Medalists
gold	Karin Burneleit ( GDR )
silver	Gunhild Hoffmeister ( GDR )
bronze	Ellen Tittel ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 1500 Meters of women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on the 13th and 15th of August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

In this discipline, the runners from the GDR recorded a double victory. Karin Burneleit became European champion . later Karin Krebs, who set a new world record in the final . Gunhild Hoffmeister , who fell over 800 meters in the final, took second place . The German athlete Ellen Tittel , later Ellen Wellmann and Ellen Wessinghage, won the bronze medal.

Note on the times

At these European Championships, the times were officially given, as was customary in the past, in values ​​rounded to tenths of a second. However, it is based on the electronic measurements, the exact hundredths of which are known and listed in the results lists of the sources. When it comes to the distances from the middle distances upwards, the differences to the values ​​officially rounded to tenths of a second do not often play the decisive role as they do on the sprint courses . Therefore, only the exact times are listed in the following summary of results.

Records

Existing records

World record	4: 10.7 min	Jaroslava Jehličková	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969
European record
Championship record

Record improvement

In the final on August 15th, European champion Karin Burneleit improved the existing EM record by - rounded - 1.1 seconds to 4: 09.62 minutes. This time was also a new world record.  

Preliminary round

August 13, 1971, 7:20 pm

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Anneke de Lange (left) was eliminated as eighth of her race in the preliminary run

The 800 meter European champion Vera Nikolić did not reach the final

The world-class marathon runner Grete Andresen, later Grete Waitz, was eighth in her run and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ellen Tittel	BR Germany	4: 14.2
2	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 15.0
3	Regine Kleinau	GDR	4: 15.3
4th	Sheila Carey	Great Britain	4: 16.2
5	Zsuzsa Völgyi	Hungary	4: 18.0 NO
6th	Sinikka Tyynela	Finland	4: 22.0 NO
7th	Maria-Belen Azpeitia	Spain	4: 24.0 NO
8th	Anneke de Lange	Netherlands	4: 24.2
9	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	4: 24.5
10	Angela Ramello	Italy	4: 30.3

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Karin Burneleit	GDR	4: 14.9
2	Vasilena Amzina	Bulgaria	4: 16.8 NO
3	Rita Ridley	Great Britain	4: 17.4
4th	Inger Knutsson	Sweden	4: 18.2
5	Magdolna Kulcsár	Hungary	4: 22.1
6th	Đurica Rajher	Yugoslavia	4: 22.4
7th	Joke van der Stelt	Netherlands	4: 23.0
8th	Catherine Bultez	France	4: 23.1 NO
9	Gerda Klöpfer	BR Germany	4: 25.8

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 17.2
2	Joan Allison	Great Britain	4: 17.2
3	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4: 17.4
4th	Sara Ligetkuti	Hungary	4: 17.6 NO
5	Christa Merten	BR Germany	4: 18.2
6th	Galina Kuzmina	Soviet Union	4: 19.1
7th	Els Gommers	Netherlands	4: 19.3
8th	Grete Andersen	Norway	4: 23.0
9	Bronisława Doborzyńska	Poland	4: 24.2
10	Zina Boniolo	Italy	4: 31.4
11	Lena Sjöstedt	Sweden	4: 34.0

final

15th August 1971

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Karin Burneleit	GDR	4: 09.62 WR
2	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 10.31
3	Ellen Tittel	BR Germany	4: 10.35 BR
4th	Rita Ridley	Great Britain	4: 12.65 NO
5	Regine Kleinau	GDR	4: 13.71
6th	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 13.93
7th	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4: 14.79
8th	Joan Allison	Great Britain	4: 14.81
9	Sara Ligetkuti	Hungary	4: 16.06 NO
10	Vasilena Amzina	Bulgaria	4: 17.27
11	Sheila Carey	Great Britain	4: 17.54
12	Inger Knutsson	Sweden	4: 21.45

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  Bronze medalist Ellen Tittel (here in 2012) - later Ellen Wellman and Ellen Wessinghage

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  Sheila Carey reached number eleven

Web links

• Women 1500m European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed July 2, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 2, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 1500m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 418 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 1500 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 2, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 2, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed July 2, 2019