European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's hammer throw

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 13th (qualification) August 14th (final)
Medalists
gold	Uwe Beyer ( FRG )
silver	Reinhard Theimer ( GDR )
bronze	Anatoly Bondarchuk ( URS )

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	Walter Schmidt	Lahr , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	4th September 1971
European record
EM record	74.68 m	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	71.58 SB
2	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	71.44
3	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	69.98 SB
4th	Anatoly Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	69.42
5	Vasily Chmelewski	Soviet Union	68.32 SB
6th	Jochen Sachse	GDR	68.24
7th	Ramuald Klim	Soviet Union	67.90
8th	Lutz Caspers	BR Germany	67.02 SB
9	Uwe Beyer	BR Germany	67.98
10	Walter Schmidt	BR Germany	67.90
11	Stanisław Lubiejewski	Poland	67.18
12	Mario Vecchiato	Italy	67.02
13	István Encsi	Hungary	65.96
14th	Ernst Ammann	Switzerland	65.74 SB
15th	Howard Payne	Great Britain	65.54 SB
16	Jacques Accambray	France	65.50 SB
17th	Srećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia	65.14 SB
18th	Risto Miettinen	Finland	64.12 SB
19th	Vladimir Prikhodko	France	63.48 SB
20th	Sune Blomqvist	Sweden	62.68 SB
21st	Hans Pötsch	Austria	62.60 SB
22nd	Barry Williams	Great Britain	60.56 SB
NM	Carlos Sustelo	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	BR Germany	72.36
2	Reinhard Theimer	GDR	71.80 SB
3	Anatoly Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	71.40 SB
4th	Ramuald Klim	Soviet Union	70.64 SB
5	Walter Schmidt	BR Germany	70.54
6th	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	69.74
7th	Jochen Sachse	GDR	69.74 SB
8th	Stanisław Lubiejewski	Poland	67.50 SB
9	Vasily Chmelewski	Soviet Union	67.00
10	Mario Vecchiato	Italy	66.96 SB
11	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	66.94
NM	Lutz Caspers	BR Germany	without space

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  The defending champion Anatolij Bondarchuk (shown here on a postage stamp) won bronze

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  Jochen Sachse came in seventh place - there was silver for him at the 1972 Olympic Games and the 1974 European Championships

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 28, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men Hammer 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 Hammer 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, men's hammer throw 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. Hammer Throw Men , accessed June 28, 2019