European Athletics Championships 1971 / Men's Shot Put
10th European Athletics Championships | |
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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 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
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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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) |
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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
August 13, 1971, 6:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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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 |
Vice European Champion Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg - he repeated his second place from 1969
Bronze medalist Władysław Komar - 1972 Olympic champion
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed June 28, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on June 28, 2019