European Athletics Championships 1971 / Men's Shot Put

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalists
gold	Hartmut Briesenick ( GDR )
silver	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg ( GDR )
bronze	Władysław Komar ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The shot put men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 11 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The athletes of the GDR achieved a double success in this competition. Hartmut Briesenick became European champion . He won ahead of European record holder Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg , who finished second like at the last European championships . Władysław Komar from Poland won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	21.78 m	Randy Matson	College Station , USA	April 22, 1967
European record	21.12 m	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	August 28, 1971
EM record	20.12 m	Dieter Hoffmann	EM Athens , Greece	18th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Hartmut Briesenick improved the European Championship record at these European championships in the final on August 13 by 96 centimeters to 21.08 m.  

qualification

August 12, 1971, 11:00 a.m.

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.70 m. Fifteen athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the following day.

Group A

Geoff Capes - 1974 European Championship third - was sixteen centimeters short of the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	19.65
2	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	19.55
3	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	19.19
4th	Pekka Ahnger	Finland	19.14 SB
5	Ralf Reichenbach	BR Germany	18.91 SB
6th	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.83
7th	Hans-Dieter Möser	BR Germany	18.72 SB
8th	Geoff Capes	Great Britain	18.54 SB
9	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	18.50
10	Arrhenius is different	Sweden	17.84
11	Mihály Teveli	Hungary	16.82 SB
12	Sándor Holub	Hungary	16.63

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.56
2	Valery Woikin	Soviet Union	19.00
3	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	19.00
4th	Yves Brouzet	France	18.96
5	Heinfried Birlenbach	BR Germany	18.89 SB
6th	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	18.81
7th	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	18.75
8th	Arnjolt Beer	France	18.75 PB
9	Matti Yrjölä	Finland	18.49 SB
10	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia	18.43 SB
11	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	17.83 SB

final

European champion Hartmut Briesenick from the strong camp of GDR shot putters - he won an Olympic bronze in 1972 and successfully defended his title in 1974

August 13, 1971, 6:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR	21.08 CR
2	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	GDR	20.47 SB
3	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	20.04 SB
4th	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.89
5	Valery Woikin	Soviet Union	19.81 SB
6th	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	19.61 SB
7th	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	19.38 SB
8th	Yves Brouzet	France	19.20 SB
9	Pekka Ahnger	Finland	19.00
10	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	18.76
11	Ralf Reichenbach	BR Germany	18.74
12	Hans-Dieter Möser	BR Germany	18.51
13	Arnjolt Beer	France	18.46
14th	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.27
DNS	Heinfried Birlenbach	BR Germany

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  Vice European Champion Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg - he repeated his second place from  1969

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  Bronze medalist Władysław Komar - 1972 Olympic champion

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  Defending champion Dieter Hoffmann reached seventh place this time

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 28, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men Shot Put 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 Long Jump 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 shot put 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. Shot put men , accessed June 28, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on June 28, 2019