European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's Pentathlon

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's Pentathlon
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	22 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	13./14. August
Medalists
gold	Heide Rosendahl ( FRG )
silver	Burglinde Pollak ( GDR )
bronze	Margrit Olfert ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The Pentathlon of women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 13 and 14 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

For the GDR there were two medals in this competition, silver and bronze. The German athlete Heide Rosendahl , who won bronze in the long jump on the same day, became the European champion . Second place went to world record holder Burglinde Pollak . Bronze went to Margrit Olfert , former Margrit Herbst.

Records

Existing records

World record	5406 P 1969 value.	4777 P 1985 value.	Burglinde Pollak	Erfurt , GDR (now Germany )	5th / 6th September 1970
European record
EM record	5030 P 1969 value.	4419 P 1985 value.	Read Procopius	EM Athens , Greece	17./18. September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Heide Rosendahl improved the EM -record on 5299 P under the then valid vote 1969-4675 P after today heptathlon valid score of the 1985th

execution

The five disciplines of the pentathlon took place over two days.

Time schedule
Day 1 - September 17th		Day 2 - September 18th
100 m hurdles	11.00 a.m.	Long jump	12.30 p.m.
Shot put	12 p.m.	200 m	5.40 p.m.
high jump	6.30 p.m.

The scoring was based on a point table valid from 1969.

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved for the heptathlon according to the current rating system from 1985 are listed for comparison . After that, there would have been other placements in two places:

• Eleventh-placed Miep van Beek and twelfth-placed Miroslava Březíková should have swapped their ranks.
• The same exchange would have taken place for Jitka Birnbaumová in fourteenth and Kathrin Lardi in fifteenth.

But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Result

13./14. August 1971

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Surname

nation

Points official scoring

Points 1985 rating

100 m hurdles

Bullet poking

High jump

Status after day 1 (P)

Long jump

200 m

1

Heide Rosendahl

BR Germany

5299 CR

4675

13.52 s

13.70 m

1.68 m

3111

6.69 m

23.80 s

2

Burglinde Pollak

GDR

5275

4638

13.34 s

16.11 m

1.64 m

3247

6.10 m

24.11 s

3

Margrit Olfert

GDR

5179

4570

13.96 s

13.56 m

1.64 m

3072

6.50 m

24.17 s

4th

Karen Mack

BR Germany

5052

4443

13.91 s

12.78 m

1.74 m

3054

6.01 m

24.22 s

5

Valentina Tikhomirova

Soviet Union

4986

4375

14.04 s

13.84 m

1.64 m

3007

6.34 m

25.19 s

6th

Odette Ducas

France

4926 NO

4330

14.53 s

12.53 m

1.66 m

6.50 m

24.75 s

7th

Tatiana Kondrashova

Soviet Union

4887

4289

13.77 s

12.70 m

1.62 m

5.93 m

24.21 s

8th

Margit Papp

Hungary

4833

4244

14.71 s

13.36 m

1.76 m

6.10 m

26.26 s

9

Đurđa Fočić

Yugoslavia

4798 NO

4209

13.97 s

11.36 m

1.70 m

6.00 m

25.32 s

10

Margot Eppinger

BR Germany

4786

4288

14.24 s

12.11 m

1.60 m

6.14 m

24.90 s

11

Miep van Beek

Netherlands

4755

4157

14.02 s

12.23 m

1.66 m

5.73 m

25.31 s

12

Miroslava Březíková

Czechoslovakia

4754

4162

14.73 s

11.76 m

1.70 m

6.18 m

25.24 s

13

Mieke Sterk

Netherlands

4752

4155

14.73 s

11.19 m

1.64 m

5.80 m

24.84 s

14th

Jitka Birnbaumová

Czechoslovakia

4702

4101

14.12 s

12.79 m

1.50 m

5.95 m

24.82 s

15th

Kathrin Lardi

Switzerland

4693

4111

14.67 s

11.73 m

1.72 m

2856

5.79 m

25.72 s

16

Roswitha Emonts guest

Belgium

4578

4005

14.46 s

11.73 m

1.72 m

6.75 m

26.67 s

17th

Florence Picaut

France

4541

3967

14.76 s

11.61 m

1.66 m

5.88 m

26.52 s

18th

Dorit Würger

Austria

4506

3931

14.79 s

11.61 m

1.64 m

5.72 m

26.22 s

19th

Hannele Harju

Finland

4279

3721

15.20 s

11.61 m

1.52 m

6.11 m

25.88 s

20th

Monique Bantegny

France

3575

3082

14.76 s

11.61 m

1.62 m

NM

25.83 s

DNF

Monika Peikert

GDR

14.20 s

13.91 m

1.72 m

3064

5.64 m

DNS

Nedjalka Angelova

Bulgaria

14.25 s

13.91 m

1.58 m

DNS

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  The world record holder Burglinde Pollak became vice European champion

• 

  Bronze medalist Margrit Olfert - in the long jump in ninth place

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  Miep van Beek (left) finished eleventh

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  Mieke Sterk came in thirteenth place

• 

  Monika Peikert was the last discipline, the 200 meters race no longer compete

Web links

• Women Pentathlon European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed July 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Pentathlon European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 419 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, pentathlon women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 7, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pentathlon , p. 78 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on July 7, 2019 (Spanish / English)