European Athletics Championships 1971/400 m men
| 10th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
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| discipline | Men's 400-meter run |
| city |
 Helsinki
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| Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
| Attendees | 25 athletes from 14 countries |
| Competition phase | August 11th (preliminary) August 12th (semi-finals) August 13th (final) |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
David Jenkins ( URS )
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 silver |
Marcello Fiasconaro ( FRA )
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 bronze |
Jan Werner ( POL )
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The 400-meter race of the men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was at 11 to 13 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.
European champion was the Briton David Jenkins . He won ahead of the Italian Marcello Fiasconaro . Bronze went to defending champion Jan Werner from Poland.
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 | 43.8 s |
 Lee Evans
|
OS Mexico City , Mexico | October 18, 1968 |
| European record | 44.9 s |
 Carl Kaufmann
|
OS Rome , Italy | September 6, 1960 |
|
Martin Jellinghaus
|
OS Mexico City , Mexico | 17th October 1968 | ||
| Championship record | 45.7 s |
Jan Werner
|
EM Athens , Greece | 18th September 1969 |
Record improvement
European champion David Jenkins improved the existing EM record in the final on August 13 by two tenths of a second to 45.5 seconds.
Electronically measured records
Existing records
| World record | 43.86 s |
Lee Evans
|
OS Mexico City , Mexico | October 18, 1968 |
| European record | 45.06 s |
Martin Jellinghaus
|
OS Mexico City , Mexico | 17th October 1968 |
| Championship record | 45.75 s |
Jan Werner
|
EM Athens , Greece | 18th September 1969 |
Record improvement
European champion David Jenkins improved the existing EM record in the final on August 13th by thirty hundredths of a second to 45.45 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 11, 1971, 5:30 p.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
| space | Surname | nation |
Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth |
Unofficial time (s) exact value |
| 1 | Jan Werner |
Poland
|
46.4 | 46.44 |
| 2 | Marcello Fiasconaro |
 Italy
|
46.5 | 46.49 |
| 3 | Gilles Bertould |
France
|
46.8 | 46.81 |
| 4th | Miroslav Tulis |
 Czechoslovakia
|
46.8 | 46.83 |
| 5 | Semyon Kotscher |
Soviet Union
|
46.9 | 46.90 |
| DNS | Alberto Matos |
 Portugal
|
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| M. Guneygif |
 Turkey
|
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation |
Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth |
Unofficial time (s) exact value |
| 1 | David Jenkins |
Great Britain
|
46.7 | 46.66 |
| 2 | Andrzej Badeński |
Poland
|
46.7 | 46.68 |
| 3 | Via Rome |
 Norway
|
46.7 | 46.73 |
| 4th | Hermann Koehler |
BR Germany
|
46.8 | 46.77 |
| 5 | Yevgeny Borisenko |
Soviet Union
|
47.1 | 47.12 |
| 6th | Christian Nicolau |
France
|
47.1 | 47.12 |
| 7th | Miro Kocuvan |
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47.6 | 47.63 |
| 8th | Not so Faager |
 Sweden
|
47.3 | 47.32 |
Forward 3
| space | Surname | nation |
Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth |
Unofficial time (s) exact value |
| 1 | Klaus Hauke |
 GDR
|
46.8 | 46.84 |
| 2 | Martin Jellinghaus |
BR Germany
|
47.0 | 46.96 |
| 3 | Waldemar Korycki |
Poland
|
47.1 | 47.10 |
| 4th | Michael Fredriksson |
Sweden
|
47.4 | 47.44 |
| 5 | Giacomo Puosi |
Italy
|
47.6 | 47.63 |
| 6th | Hugues Roger |
France
|
47.8 | 47.75 |
| 7th | John Robertson |
Great Britain
|
48.2 | 48.20 |
Forward 4
| space | Surname | nation |
Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth |
Unofficial time (s) exact value |
| 1 | Markku Kukkoaho |
Finland
|
46.7 | 46.72 |
| 2 | Thomas Jordan |
BR Germany
|
47.0 | 46.98 |
| 3 | Alexandr Bratchikov |
Soviet Union
|
47.2 | 47.21 |
| 4th | Fanahan McSweeney |
 Ireland
|
47.3 | 47.34 |
| 5 | René Bervoets |
 Belgium
|
47.4 | 47.42 |
| 6th | Martin Bilham |
Great Britain
|
48.1 | 48.12 |
| DNS | Luciano Sušanj |
Yugoslavia
|
in the semifinals in fifth place in his race
Semifinals
August 12, 1971, 5:00 p.m.
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 | Thomas Jordan |
BR Germany
|
46.3 | 46.29 |
| 2 | Hermann Koehler |
BR Germany
|
46.4 | 46.44 |
| 3 | Marcello Fiasconaro |
Italy
|
46.4 | 46.44 |
| 4th | Alexandr Bratchikov |
Soviet Union
|
46.7 | 46.66 |
| 5 | Andrzej Badeński |
Poland
|
46.8 | 46.80 |
| 6th | Via Rome |
Norway
|
46.9 | 46.92 |
| 7th | Miroslav Tulis |
Czechoslovakia
|
47.1 | 47.05 |
| 8th | Michael Fredriksson |
Sweden
|
48.4 | k. A. |
Run 2
| space | Surname | nation |
Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth |
Unofficial time (s) exact value |
| 1 | Jan Werner |
Poland
|
46.1 | 46.11 |
| 2 | David Jenkins |
Great Britain
|
46.2 | 46.22 |
| 3 | Markku Kukkoaho |
Finland
|
46.3 | 46.25 |
| 4th | Klaus Hauke |
GDR
|
46.4 | 46.37 |
| 5 | Martin Jellinghaus |
BR Germany
|
46.8 | 46.78 |
| 6th | Gilles Bertould |
France
|
47.2 | 47.23 |
| 7th | Fanahan McSweeney |
Ireland
|
47.7 | 47.69 |
| DNS | Waldemar Korycki |
Poland
|
final
August 13, 1971, 6:50 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation |
Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth |
Unofficial time (s) exact value |
| 1 | David Jenkins |
Great Britain
|
45.5 CR / NR | 45.45 CR / NO |
| 2 | Marcello Fiasconaro |
Italy
|
45.5 NO | 45.49 NO |
| 3 | Jan Werner |
Poland
|
45.6 | 45.56 |
| 4th | Markku Kukkoaho |
Finland
|
45.7 NO | 45.74 NO |
| 5 | Thomas Jordan |
BR Germany
|
46.0 | 46.01 |
| 6th | Hermann Koehler |
BR Germany
|
46.1 | 46.07 |
| 7th | Alexandr Bratchikov |
Soviet Union
|
46.4 | 46.40 |
| 8th | Klaus Hauke |
GDR
|
46.9 | 46.88 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 18, 2019
- European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men 400m 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 400m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 412 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 18, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 400 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
- ↑ a b IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed June 18, 2019
- ↑ a b Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Men , p. 10 (PDF, 271 kB), French / English, accessed on June 5, 2019
- ↑ European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 18, 2019