European Athletics Championships 1971/400 m women

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400-meter run for women
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	28 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semi-finals) August 12th (final)
Medalists
gold	Helga Seidler ( GDR )
silver	Inge Bödding ( FRG )
bronze	Ingelore Lohse ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 400-meter race of women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held from 10 to 12 August 1971 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

With gold and bronze, the runners from the GDR won two medals in this competition. The European champion was Helga Seidler , formerly known under her name Helga Fischer. Second place went to the German athlete Inge Bödding , formerly Inge Eckhoff. Bronze went to Ingelore Lohse .

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	51.0 s	Marilyn Neufville	Edinburgh , UK	July 23, 1970
European record	51.7 s	Nicole Duclos	EM Athens , Greece	18th September 1969
		Colette Besson
Championship record		Nicole Duclos
		Colette Besson

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	51.02 s	Marilyn Neufville	Edinburgh , UK	July 23, 1970
European record	51.77 s	Nicole Duclos	EM Athens , Greece	18th September 1969
Championship record

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

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

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Rita Kuehne	GDR	53.2	53.17
2	Colette Besson	France	53.2	53.18
3	Anette Rückes	BR Germany	53.6	53.56
4th	Karin Lundgren	Sweden	53.8	53.77
5	Svetla Slateva	Bulgaria	54.0	54.03
6th	Mariana Suman	Romania	54.3	54.33
7th	Bożena Zientarska	Poland	55.0	55.04

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Helga Seidler	GDR	52.7	52.70
2	Inge Bödding	BR Germany	53.0	53.01
3	Natalja Tschistjakowa	Soviet Union	53.2	53.18
4th	Marianne Burggraaf	Netherlands	53.6	53.57
5	Bernadette Martin	France	53.7	53.72
6th	Danuta Piecyk	Poland	54.3	54.30
7th	Stefka Jordanova	Bulgaria	55.1	55.14

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Marika Eklund	Finland	54.4	54.35
2	Christel Frese	BR Germany	54.4	54.42
3	Karoline Beetle	Austria	54.5	54.48
4th	Elisabeth Randerz	Sweden	54.5	54.50
5	Krystyna Hryniewicka	Poland	54.7	54.67
6th	Lyubov Aksenova	Soviet Union	54.9	54.91
7th	Josefina Salgado	Spain	56.3	56.27

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Ingelore Lohse	GDR	53.3	53.34
2	Maria Sykora	Austria	53.5	53.49
3	Mona-Lisa Strandvall	Finland	53.7	53.69
4th	Jannette Roscoe	Great Britain	54.0	53.95
5	Nadezhda Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	54.4	54.35
6th	Eva-Charlotte Malmström	Sweden	54.7	54.65
7th	Ingunn Einarsdóttir	Iceland	60.3	60.33

Semifinals

August 11, 1971

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Helga Seidler	GDR	52.8	52.77
2	Colette Besson	France	52.9	52.88
3	Marika Eklund	Finland	53.1	53.11
4th	Natalja Tschistjakowa	Soviet Union	53.2	53.16
5	Karoline Beetle	Austria	53.7	53.70
6th	Marianne Burggraaf	Netherlands	53.8	53.77
7th	Karin Lundgren	Sweden	54.0	53.95
8th	Anette Rückes	BR Germany	54.4	54.36

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Ingelore Lohse	GDR	53.0	52.99
2	Inge Bödding	BR Germany	53.2	53.16
3	Maria Sykora	Austria	53.3	53.27
4th	Rita Kuehne	GDR	53.8	53.75
5	Mona-Lisa Strandvall	Finland	54.0	54.03
6th	Christel Frese	BR Germany	54.1	54.11
7th	Jannette Roscoe	Great Britain	54.6	54.59
8th	Elisabeth Randerz	Sweden	54.9	54.88

final

European champion Helga Seidler, former Helga Fischer - in 1972 Olympic champion with the 4 x 400 meter relay of the GDR

August 12, 1971, 5:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Helga Seidler	GDR	52.1 DR	52.14 DR
2	Inge Bödding	BR Germany	52.9	52.90
3	Ingelore Lohse	GDR	52.9	52.91
4th	Maria Sykora	Austria	53.0	53.01
5	Natalja Tschistjakowa	Soviet Union	53.2	53.19
6th	Marika Eklund	Finland	53.4	53.35
7th	Colette Besson	France	53.7	53.70
8th	Rita Kuehne	GDR	53.9	53.91

• 

  Colette Besson, Olympic champion from 1968 and vice European champion from 1969 , no longer had the very best form of the previous year and came in seventh

• 

  Rita Kühne finished eighth and, like European champion Helga Seidler, became Olympic champion in the GDR's 4 x 400 meter relay in 1972

Web links

• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women 400m 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 400m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 417, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 400 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. 400m women , accessed July 2, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Women , p. 51, Spanish / English, (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 2, 2019
3. ↑ Marilyn Neufville in the database of Sports-Reference (English) , accessed on July 2, 2019