European Athletics Championships 1971 / Men's discus throw

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	26 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 14th (qualification) August 15th (final)
Medalists
gold	Ludvík Daněk ( TCH )
silver	Lothar Milde ( GDR )
bronze	Géza Fejér ( HUN )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The discus throw men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 14 and 15 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The Czechoslovak Olympic runner-up from 1964 and Olympic third from 1968, Ludvík Daněk, was European champion . He won before the Olympic runner-up in 1968 and third in the European Championship in 1969 Lothar Milde from the GDR. Bronze went to the Hungarian Géza Fejér.

Records

Existing records

World record	68.40 m	Jay New Years	Reno , USA	18th September 1968
European record	68.32 m	Ricky Bruch	Malmo , Sweden	May 15, 1971
EM record	61.82 m	Hartmut Losch	EM Athens , Greece	17th September 1969

Record improvement

The existing championship record was improved twice at these European championships:

• 62.16 m - Hartmut Losch , qualification on August 14th 
• 63.90 m - Ludvík Daněk , final on August 15 

qualification

August 14, 1971, 11:45 a.m.

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 58.00 m. Exactly twelve athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the following day.

As far as known, the group membership of the high jumpers is listed in the following overview.

space	Surname	nation	group	Width (m)
1	Hartmut Losch	GDR	B.	62.16 CR
2	Dirk Wippermann	BR Germany	B.	60.98
3	Géza Fejér	Hungary	B.	60.86
4th	Lothar Milde	GDR	A.	60.62
5	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	B.	60.50
6th	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	A.	60.04 PB
7th	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	A.	59.44
8th	Pentti Kahma	Finland	A.	59.24
9	Klaus-Peter Hennig	BR Germany	A.	59.06 PB
10	Heimo Reinitzer	Austria	A.	59.02
11	Risto Myyra	Finland	B.	58.38
12	Jorma Rinne	Finland	A.	58.02
13	Hein-Direck New	BR Germany	k. A.	57.64 PB
14th	Iosif Nagy	Hungary		57.58 PB
15th	Kenneth Åkesson	Sweden		56.92 PB
16	Ernst Soudek	Austria		56.64 PB
17th	Leszek Gajdziński	Poland		56.50 PB
18th	Kaj Andersen	Denmark		55.56
19th	János Faragó	Hungary		55.56 PB
20th	John Watts	Great Britain		55.52 PB
21st	Armando De Vicentis	Italy		55.48 PB
22nd	Vladimir Lyakhov	Soviet Union		55.44 PB
23	Tormod Lislerud	Norway		55.36
24	Zdravko Pečar	Yugoslavia		55.32 PB
NM	Silvano Simeon	Italy		without space
	Erlendur Valdimarsson	Iceland

final

After winning silver in 1964 and bronze in 1968 at the Olympic Games, Ludvík Daněk won his first title here - a year later he became Olympic champion

August 15, 1971, 3:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	63.90 CR
2	Lothar Milde	GDR	61.62 SB
3	Géza Fejér	Hungary	61.54
4th	Dirk Wippermann	BR Germany	61.36
5	Hartmut Losch	GDR	60.86
6th	Pentti Kahma	Finland	60.64 SB
7th	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	59.24
8th	Jorma Rinne	Finland	59.22 SB
9	Ricky Bruch	Sweden	59.08
10	Heimo Reinitzer	Austria	58.30
11	Klaus-Peter Hennig	BR Germany	56.36
12	Risto Myyra	Finland	54.16

European champion Ludvík Daněk managed the following series in the final:
57.98 m - 61.34 m - 63.90 m - 59.12 m - 59.80 m - 63.30 m

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  Lothar Milde continued his streak of success with his runner-up European championship - in 1968 there was an Olympic bronze and in 1969 an EM silver for him

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  The defending champion and vice European champion from 1966 Hartmut Losch came in fifth this time

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 28, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed June 28, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 415 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 28, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 28, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed June 28, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Discus Men , p. 29 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on June 28, 2019