European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's hammer throw

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10th European Athletics Championships
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discipline Men's hammer throw
city FinlandFinland Helsinki
Stadion Olympic Stadium
Attendees 23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase August 13th (qualification)
August 14th (final)
Medalists
gold gold Uwe Beyer ( FRG ) Germany BRBR Germany 
Silver medals silver Reinhard Theimer ( GDR ) Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
Bronze medals bronze Anatoly Bondarchuk ( URS ) Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

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

European champion was the West German Olympic third from 1964 and EM third from 1966 Uwe Beyer . He won ahead of the GDR thrower Reinhard Theimer . The Soviet defending champion Anatoly Bondarchuk won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record 76.40 m Germany BRBR Germany Walter Schmidt Lahr , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) 4th September 1971
European record
EM record 74.68 m Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Anatoly Bondarchuk EM Athens , Greece 20th September 1969

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

qualification

August 13, 1971, 12:00 p.m.

23 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 66.00 m. Exactly twelve athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the following day.

space Surname nation Width (m)
1 Gyula Zsivótzky Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 71.58 SB
2 Reinhard Theimer Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 71.44
3 Sándor Eckschmiedt Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 69.98 SB
4th Anatoly Bondarchuk Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 69.42
5 Vasily Chmelewski Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 68.32 SB
6th Jochen Sachse Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 68.24
7th Ramuald Klim Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 67.90
8th Lutz Caspers Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 67.02 SB
9 Uwe Beyer Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 67.98
10 Walter Schmidt Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 67.90
11 Stanisław Lubiejewski Poland 1944Poland Poland 67.18
12 Mario Vecchiato ItalyItaly Italy 67.02
13 István Encsi Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 65.96
14th Ernst Ammann SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 65.74 SB
15th Howard Payne United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 65.54 SB
16 Jacques Accambray FranceFrance France 65.50 SB
17th Srećko Štiglić YugoslaviaYugoslavia Yugoslavia 65.14 SB
18th Risto Miettinen FinlandFinland Finland 64.12 SB
19th Vladimir Prikhodko FranceFrance France 63.48 SB
20th Sune Blomqvist SwedenSweden Sweden 62.68 SB
21st Hans Pötsch AustriaAustria Austria 62.60 SB
22nd Barry Williams United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 60.56 SB
NM Carlos Sustelo PortugalPortugal Portugal without space

final

European champion Uwe Beyer - after his low point when he was eliminated in the Olympic qualifying round in 1968, he is now back on the road to success

August 14, 1971, 5:00 p.m.

space Surname nation Width (m)
1 Uwe Beyer Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 72.36
2 Reinhard Theimer Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 71.80 SB
3 Anatoly Bondarchuk Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 71.40 SB
4th Ramuald Klim Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 70.64 SB
5 Walter Schmidt Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 70.54
6th Sándor Eckschmiedt Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 69.74
7th Jochen Sachse Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 69.74 SB
8th Stanisław Lubiejewski Poland 1944Poland Poland 67.50 SB
9 Vasily Chmelewski Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 67.00
10 Mario Vecchiato ItalyItaly Italy 66.96 SB
11 Gyula Zsivótzky Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 66.94
NM Lutz Caspers Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany without space

Web links

References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed June 28, 2019