European Athletics Championships 1971/200 m men

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 13th (final)
Medalist
gold	Valery Borsov ( URS )
silver	Franz-Peter Hofmeister ( FRG )
bronze	Jörg Pfeifer ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 200-meter race of the men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 12 and 13 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The European champion was the 100-meter European champion Valerij Borsow from the USSR. Second place went to the German sprinter Franz-Peter Hofmeister . Bronze went to Jörg Pfeifer from the GDR.

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	19.8 s	Tommie Smith	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 16, 1968
		Donald Quarrie	Cali , Colombia	3rd August 1971
European record	20.2 s	Valery Borsov	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	18th July 1971
Championship record	20.6 s	Philippe Clerc	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Valery Borsow improved the existing EM record in the final on August 13th by three tenths of a second to 20.3 seconds.  

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	19.83 s	Tommie Smith	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 16, 1968
European record	20.47 s	Roger Bambuck
Championship record	20.70 s	Philippe Clerc	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Valery Borsow improved the existing EM record in the final on August 13th by 39 hundredths of a second to 20.31 s.  

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 12, 1971, 11:30 a.m.

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: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	BR Germany	21.0	20.95
2	Jörg Pfeifer	GDR	21.4	21.35
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.5	21.47
4th	Alexei Chebykin	Soviet Union	21.6	21.58
5	José Luis Sánchez	Spain	21.6	21.60
6th	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.7	21.71
7th	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	22.0	21.97

Forward 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Alexander Schidkich	Soviet Union	21.4	21.35
2	Charles Ducasse	France	21.4	21.40
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	21.5	21.53
4th	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.6	21.61
5	Jean-Pierre Borlée	Belgium	21.7	21.68
6th	Ertuğrul Oğulbolan	Turkey	22.1	k. A.

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Gérard Fenouil	France	21.1	21.14
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.2	21.20
3	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	21.3	21.33
4th	Reto Diezi	Switzerland	21.5	21.47
5	Karl Honz	BR Germany	21.5	21.52
6th	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	21.6	21.64
7th	Predrag Križan	Yugoslavia	21.9	21.87
8th	Alexandru Munteanu	Romania	22.1	22.11

Forward 4

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	21.2	21.16
2	Joseph Arame	France	21.4	21.44
3	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.5	21.54
4th	Luis Sarria	Spain	21.6	21.56
5	Søren Viggo Pedersen	Norway	21.7	21.69
6th	Martin Reynolds	Great Britain	21.7	21.71
7th	Bo Söderberg	Sweden	21.9	21.91

Semifinals

August 12, 1971, 5:30 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union	20.9	20.86
2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	BR Germany	20.9	20.93
3	Alexander Schidkich	Soviet Union	21.0	21.04
4th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	21.2	21.21
5	Luis Sarria	Spain	21.4	21.35
6th	Joseph Arame	France	21.4	21.41
7th	Reto Diezi	Switzerland	21.5	21.53
8th	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.5	21.54

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Gérard Fenouil	France	21.2	21.15
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.2	21.23
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	21.3	21.25
4th	Jörg Pfeifer	GDR	21.3	21.29
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.4	21.37
6th	Charles Ducasse	France	21.4	21.40
7th	Alexei Chebykin	Soviet Union	21.5	21.45
8th	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.6	21.56

final

August 13, 1971, 5:45 p.m.

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	20.3 CR	20.31 CRel
2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	BR Germany	20.7	20.71
3	Jörg Pfeifer	GDR	20.7	20.72
4th	Siegfried Schenke	GDR	20.7	20.74
5	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.9	20.86
6th	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.9	20.88
7th	Gérard Fenouil	France	20.9	20.92
8th	Alexander Schidkich	Soviet Union	21.2	21.23

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  After the 100-meter run , Valery Borsov was also victorious in the 200 meters - at the 1972 Olympic Games he repeated this double success

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  Pietro Mennea reached sixth place at the beginning of a very successful career - later, among other things, world record holder and 1980 Olympic champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 18, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men 200m on todor66.com, accessed June 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 200m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 412 (PDF, 13,363 kB), English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 18, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 200m men , accessed June 18, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , p. 8, French / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 18, 2019
3. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 18, 2019