European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's high jump
10th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's high jump |
city | Helsinki |
Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Attendees | 27 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | August 13th (qualification) August 14th (final) |
Medalists | |
gold | Kęstutis Šapka ( URS ) |
silver | Csaba Dosa ( ROM ) |
bronze | Rustam Akhmetov ( URS ) |
The high jump of the men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 13 and 14 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.
There were two medals for the Soviet high jumpers: gold and bronze. Kestutis Šapka became European champion . He won ahead of the Romanian Csaba Dosa. Bronze went to Rustam Akhmetov .
Existing records
World record | 2.29 m | Pat Matzdorf | Berkeley , USA | 3rd July 1971 |
European record | 2.28 m | Valery Brumel | Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | July 21, 1963 |
EM record | 2.21 m | EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia | September 16, 1962 |
Even at these European Championships since been 1,962 existing EM -record not set and does not improve.
qualification
August 13, 1971, 11:00 a.m.
27 participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 2.12 m. Seventeen 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.
final
August 14, 1971, 5:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Kęstutis Šapka | Soviet Union | 2.20 SB |
2 | Csaba Dosa | Romania | 2.20 NO |
3 | Rustam Akhmetov | Soviet Union | 2.20 |
4th | Istvan Major | Hungary | 2.17 SB |
5 | Stefan Junge | GDR | 2.14 |
Asko pesons | Finland | 2.14 SB | |
7th | Wojciech Gołębiowski | Poland | 2.14 SB |
8th | Endre Kelemen | Hungary | 2.11 |
9 | József Tihányi | Hungary | 2.11 |
10 | Valentin Gavrilov | Soviet Union | 2.11 |
11 | Jiří Palkovský | Czechoslovakia | 2.11 |
Hermann Magerl | BR Germany | 2.11 | |
13 | Roman Moravec | Czechoslovakia | 2.11 |
14th | Christer Celion | Sweden | 2.08 |
15th | Gian Marco Schivo | Italy | 2.08 |
16 | Branko Vivod | Yugoslavia | 2.08 |
17th | Erminio Azzaro | Italy | 2.05 |
Stefan Junge reached fifth place - the following year he won the Olympic silver medal
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 25, 2019
- European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed June 25, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 25, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 414 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 25, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 25, 2019
- 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 25, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed June 25, 2019.
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, High Jump Men , p. 21 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 25, 2019 (Spanish / English).