European Athletics Championships 1971/4 × 100 m men

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of men
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase	August 14th (preliminary) August 15th (final)
Medalist
gold	Czechoslovakia
silver	Poland
bronze	Italy

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 4-by-100-meter relay team of men in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 14 and 15 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

Czechoslovakia became European champions with the line-up of Ladislav Kříž , Juraj Demeč , Jiří Kynos and Luděk Bohman . Second place went to Poland with Gerard Gramse, Tadeusz Cuch, Zenon Nowosz and Marian Dudziak . Bronze went to Italy (Vincenzo Guerini, Pietro Mennea , Pasqualino Abeti, Ennio Preatoni).

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	38.2 s	USA ( Charles Greene , Mel Pender , Ronnie Ray Smith , Jim Hines )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
European record	38.4 s	France ( Gérard Fenouil , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck )
EM record	38.8 s	France ( Alain Sarteur , Patrick Bourbeillon , Gérard Fenouil and François Saint-Gilles )	EM Athens , Greece	September 10, 1969

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

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	38.24 s	USA ( Charles Greene , Mel Pender , Ronnie Ray Smith , Jim Hines )	OS Mexico City , Mexico	20th October 1968
European record	38.43 s	France ( Gérard Fenouil , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck )
EM record	38.89 s	France ( Alain Sarteur , Patrick Bourbeillon , Gérard Fenouil and François Saint-Gilles )	EM Athens , Greece	September 10, 1969

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

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 14, 1971, 7:35 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	BR Germany	Manfred Ommer Karlheinz Klotz Gerhard Wucherer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	39.6	39.55
2	Great Britain	Brian Green Martin Reynolds Don Halliday Les Piggot	39.8	39.77
3	Poland	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak	39.8	39.83
4th	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni	40.0	39.95
5	Sweden	Curt Johansson Thorsten Johansson Bo Søderberg Anders Faager	40.7	40.67

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	France	Dominique Chauvelot Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil Jean-Pierre Grès	39.4	39.40
2	GDR	Hans-Jürgen Bombach Jörg Pfeifer Hermann Burde Hans-Joachim Zenk	39.4	39.42
3	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.8	39.77
4th	Soviet Union	Alexandr Korneljuk Alexandr Schidkich Alexandr Lebedew Alexei Tschebykin	39.8	39.78
DNF	Yugoslavia	Hrvoje Vincijanovic Ivica Karasi Miro Kocuvan Predrag Krizan

final

15th August 1971

space	Season	occupation	Official time (s) rounded to the nearest tenth	Unofficial time (s) exact value
1	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.3	39.32
2	Poland	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak	39.7	39.72
3	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni	39.8	39.78
4th	Great Britain	Brian Green Martin Reynolds Don Halliday Les Piggot	39.8	39.78
5	Soviet Union	Alexandr Korneljuk Alexandr Schidkich Alexandr Lebedew Alexei Tschebykin	40.9	40.00
DSQ	BR Germany	Manfred Ommer Karlheinz Klotz Gerhard Wucherer Franz-Peter Hofmeister
	GDR	Hans-Jürgen Bombach Jörg Pfeifer Hermann Burde Hans-Joachim Zenk
	France	Dominique Chauvelot Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil Jean-Pierre Grès

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 25, 2019
• Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed June 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 416 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 4 × 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 25, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m , accessed on June 25, 2019.
2. ^ ^{A b} Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 100 m at rfea.es, p. 35 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 25, 2019.
3. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 18, 2019.