European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's Shot Put

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	14 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 10
Medalists
gold	Nadezhda Tschischowa ( URS )
silver	Marita Lange ( GDR )
bronze	Margitta Gummel ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The shot put women at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 12 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

In this competition there were two medals for the GDR: silver and bronze. This time, too, the medals of major international championships since 1966 remained with the same three athletes, only the order among each other changed once again. The European champion was the 1968 Olympic runner-up, Nadezhda Tschischowa from the USSR. After 1966 and 1969, she won her third European Championship title here. Silver went to the third of the 1968 Olympic Games and the 1966 and 1969 European Championships, Marita Lange . The Olympic champion from 1968 and vice European champion from 1966 and 1969 Margitta Gummel took third place.

Existing records

World record	20.43 m	Nadezhda Tschischowa	EM in Athens , Greece	16th September 1969
European record
EM record

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

execution

Only fourteen participants entered this competition. So a qualification could be omitted, all athletes went to the final together.

final

Marita Lange made it into second place for the first time in a major international championship. Since 1966, she had occupied third place

August 10, 1971

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Nadezhda Tschischowa	Soviet Union	20.16
2	Marita Lange	GDR	19.25
3	Margitta Gummel	GDR	19.22
4th	Antonina Ivanova	Soviet Union	18.80
5	Hannelore Friedel	GDR	18.52
6th	Ivanka Christowa	Bulgaria	17.78
7th	Galina Nekrasova	Soviet Union	17.56
8th	Judit Bognár	Hungary	17.33
9	Els van Noorduyn	Netherlands	16.68
10	Ludwika Chewińska	Poland	16.64
11	Sigrun Kofink	BR Germany	16.27
12	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	15.73
13	Brigitte Berendonk	BR Germany	15.39
14th	Christine Barck	Finland	14.42

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  The 1968 Olympic champion Margitta Gummel won bronze this time

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  Els van Noorduyn came in ninth

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  Helena Fibingerová (here in 2012) came in twelfth place and was at the beginning of a successful career with medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships - greatest success: the World Cup title in 1983

Web links

• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 418f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed July 5, 2019