European Athletics Championships 1971/800 m men

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 800-meter run
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semi-finals) August 12th (final)
Medalist
gold	Yevgeny Arshanov ( URS )
silver	Dieter Fromm ( GDR )
bronze	Andy Carter ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 800-meter race of the men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was at 10 to 12 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

European champion was the Soviet runner Yevgeny Arshanov . He won ahead of defending champion Dieter Fromm from the GDR. Bronze went to the Briton Andy Carter .

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: 44.3 min	Peter Snell	Christchurch , New Zealand	3rd February 1962
		Ralph Doubell	OS Mexico City , Mexico	15th October 1968
European record	1: 44.9 min	Franz-Josef Kemper	Hanover , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	7th August 1966
		Walter Adams	Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 16, 1970
EM record	1: 45.9 min	Manfred Matuschewski	EM Budapest , Hungary	4th September 1966
		Dieter Fromm	EM Athens , Greece	19th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Yevgeny Arshanov improved the existing championship record in the final on August 12th by three tenths of a second to 1: 45.61 minutes.

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.

It is difficult to understand why the participants were distributed across the preliminary runs in the form practiced here. Two of the races were with seven, one with six and the fourth with only four runners. The athletes of the last race only had to cross the finish line to be in the semi-finals. The athletes completed this preliminary run in gentle gear, so the race was more than ten seconds slower than the other races.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dieter Fromm	GDR	1: 48.81
2	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1: 49.15
3	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1: 49.29 SB
4th	Markku Aalto	Finland	1: 49.33
5	Hans Bertram	BR Germany	1: 49.57 SB
6th	Krzysztof Linkowski	Poland	1; 51.67 SB
7th	Ragnar Schie	Norway	1: 54.61 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Andy Carter	Great Britain	1: 46.82
2	Jens-Bodo Fried	BR Germany	1: 47.43 SB
3	Stanislaw Meshcherskich	Soviet Union	1: 47.49
4th	Sjef Hensgens	Netherlands	1: 47.90
5	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	1: 48.44 NO
6th	André Boonen	Belgium	1: 49.61
7th	Aurelio Falero	Gibraltar	1: 59.75 SB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yevgeny Arshanov	Soviet Union	1: 49.27
2	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	1: 49.31
3	Stanisław Waśkiewicz	Poland	1: 49.35
4th	Peter Browne	Great Britain	1: 49.41
5	Reiner Föhrenbach	BR Germany	1: 49.57 SB
6th	Mehmet Tümkan	Turkey	1: 49.80 SB

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hans-Henning Ohlert	GDR	1: 59.23
2	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	2: 00.09
3	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	2: 00.13
4th	Philippe Meyer	France	2: 00.60

Semifinals

August 11, 1971, 6:00 p.m.

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	Andy Carter	Great Britain	1: 48.46
2	Hans-Henning Ohlert	GDR	1: 48.66
3	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1: 48.92
4th	Philippe Meyer	France	1: 48.94 SB
5	Stanisław Waśkiewicz	Poland	1: 49.10
6th	Stanislaw Meshcherskich	Soviet Union	1: 49.10
7th	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	1: 49.33
8th	Markku Aalto	Finland	1: 50.61

Run 2

As seventh of his race, Sjef Hensgens was eliminated in the semi-finals

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dieter Fromm	GDR	1: 48.06
2	Yevgeny Arshanov	Soviet Union	1: 48.96
3	Peter Browne	Great Britain	1: 49.03
4th	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1: 49.07
5	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1: 49.28 SB
6th	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1: 49.92
7th	Sjef Hensgens	Netherlands	1: 50.20
8th	Jens-Bodo Fried	BR Germany	1: 50.54

final

August 12, 1971, 6:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yevgeny Arshanov	Soviet Union	1: 45.61 CR / NO
2	Dieter Fromm	GDR	1: 46.01 SB
3	Andy Carter	Great Britain	1: 46.21 NO
4th	Hans-Henning Ohlert	GDR	1: 46.87 SB
5	Peter Browne	Great Britain	1: 47.00 SB
6th	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1: 47.33 SB
7th	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1: 48.44
8th	Philippe Meyer	France	1: 50.91

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 19, 2019
• Men 800m European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed June 19, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 19, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 800m European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 412f (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 19, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 800 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 19, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 19, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed June 19, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 800 m Men , p. 11 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 18, 2019