European Athletics Championships 1971/800 m women

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semi-finals) August 12th (final)
Medalists
gold	Vera Nikolić ( YUG )
silver	Pat Lowe ( GBR )
bronze	Rosemary Stirling ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 800-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.

The British athletes won two medals, silver and bronze. It won the 1966 European champion Vera Nikolić from Yugoslavia. Vice European Champion was Pat Lowe before Rosemary Stirling , later Rosemary Wright.

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	1: 58.5 min	Hildegard Falck	Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 11, 1971
European record
EM record	2: 01.4 min	Lillian Board	EM Athens , Greece	17th September 1969

Record improvement

In the final on August 12, European champion Vera Nikolić improved the existing championship record by 1.4 seconds to 2: 00.00 min.  

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	Time (min)
1	Hildegard Falck	BR Germany	2: 04.96
2	Magdolna Kulcsár	Hungary	2: 05.30
3	Waltraud Pöhland	GDR	2: 05.31
4th	Angela Ramello	Italy	2: 05.70
5	Vasilena Amzina	Bulgaria	2: 06.39
6th	Sandra Sutherland	Great Britain	2: 09.46

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2: 04.81
2	Rosemary Stirling	Great Britain	2: 06.74
3	Sylvia Schenk	BR Germany	2: 07.41
4th	Danuta Wierzbowska	Poland	2: 07.93
5	Birgitte Jennes	Denmark	2: 09.54
6th	Maria-Coro Fuentes	Spain	2: 12.58

Forward 3

As a middle distance athlete, Grete Andersen began her career here at international championships and was eliminated in the run-up - later she was extremely successful as Grete Waitz, especially in cross-country and marathons

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	2: 05.37
2	Claire Walsh	Ireland	2: 06.06
3	Pat Lowe	Great Britain	2: 06.37
4th	Kirsten Hoiler	Denmark	2: 06.67
5	Elżbieta Skowrońska	Poland	2: 06.94

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ileana Silai	Romania	2: 04.88
2	Donata Govoni	Italy	2: 05.48
3	Nijolė Sabaitė	Soviet Union	2: 05.54
4th	Gisela Ellenberger	BR Germany	2: 05.57
5	Tonka Petrova	Bulgaria	2: 05.91
6th	Grete Andersen	Norway	2: 07.63

Waltraud Pöhland (right) , later Waltraud Strotzer, was eliminated in sixth place in her race in the semifinals

The Olympic runner-up in 1968 and fifth in the European Championship in 1969 Ileana Silai did not reach the final

Semifinals

August 11, 1971, 6:20 pm

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2: 03.7
2	Danuta Wierzbowska	Poland	2: 05.3
3	Gisela Ellenberger	BR Germany	2: 05.4
4th	Pat Lowe	Great Britain	2: 05.4
5	Magdolna Kulcsár	Hungary	2: 06.2
6th	Waltraud Pöhland	GDR	2: 06.9
7th	Angela Ramello	Italy	2: 07.5
8th	Kirsten Hoiler	Denmark	2: 07.6

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	2: 03.1
2	Hildegard Falck	BR Germany	2: 03.2
3	Rosemary Stirling	Great Britain	2: 03.3
4th	Claire Walsh	Ireland	2: 03.4 NO
5	Ileana Silai	Romania	2: 03.9
6th	Sylvia Schenk	BR Germany	2: 04.6
7th	Donata Govoni	Italy	2: 05.0
DNS	Nijolė Sabaitė	Soviet Union

final

August 12, 1971, 6:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2: 00.00 CR / NR
2	Pat Lowe	Great Britain	2: 01.66
3	Rosemary Stirling	Great Britain	2: 02.08
4th	Danuta Wierzbowska	Poland	2: 04.16
5	Gisela Ellenberger	BR Germany	2: 05.14
6th	Claire Walsh	Ireland	2: 08.57
DNF	Hildegard Falck	BR Germany	overturned
	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR

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  Vera Nikolić repeated her success from 1966 and became European champion

Web links

• Women 800m 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 800m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 417f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 800 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. 800m women , accessed July 2, 2019