1971 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Helsinki
place	Round trip through Helsinki
Attendees	52 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	15th August 1971
Medalist
gold	Karel Lismont ( BEL )
silver	Trevor Wright ( GBR )
bronze	Ron Hill ( GBR )

The men's marathon at the 1971 European Athletics Championships took place on August 15, 1971 in Helsinki , Finland .

The Belgian Karel Lismont won the race with a new championship record in 2: 13: 18.8 hours. Briton Trevor Wright was runner-up in front of his compatriot Ron Hill .

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	Derek Clayton	2:08:33.6 h	Antwerp , Belgium	May 30, 1969
Championship record	Sergei Popov	2: 15: 17.0 h	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

Panoramic view of Helsinki with the south harbor

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Record improvement

With his time of 2: 13: 18.8 h, Karel Lismont improved Sergei Popov's European championship record by 1: 58.2 minutes as the new European champion .

Result

European Champion Karel Lismont, Belgium ( here in 1976 )

Bronze medalist Ron Hill, Great Britain ( 1975 in Enschede )

Gaston Roelants, Belgium ( in 1967 ) - fifth place

Ismail Akçay, Turkey ( here second from the left in 1967 in Enschede ) - sixteenth place

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Karel Lismont	Belgium	2: 13: 09.0 CR
	Trevor Wright	Great Britain	2: 13: 59.62 SB
	Ron Hill	Great Britain	2: 14: 34.83 SB
04th	Colin Kirkham	Great Britain	2: 16: 22.0 SB
05	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	2: 17: 48.85 SB
06th	Pentti Rummakko	Finland	2: 17: 58.86 SB
07th	Lutz Philipp	BR Germany	2: 18: 08.6 SB
08th	Agustín Fernández	Spain	2: 18: 26.6 PB
09	Kalle Hakkarainen	Finland	2: 18: 45.0 PB
10	Gyula Tóth	Hungary	2: 18: 59.6 SB
11	Danny McDaid	Ireland	2: 19: 07.2 SB
12	Antonio Grossi	Italy	2: 19: 34.8 PB
13	Yuri Volkov	Soviet Union	2: 19: 56.6 SB
14th	Bernard Caraby	France	2: 19: 59.0 PB
15th	Armando Aldegalega	Portugal	2: 20: 01.2 PB
16	İsmail Akçay	Turkey	2: 20: 26.8 SB
17th	Giacomo Marietta	Italy	2: 21: 30.0 PB
18th	Fleming Kempel	Denmark	2: 21: 34.8 PB
19th	Yuri Velikorodnych	Soviet Union	2: 21: 59.0 SB
20th	Anatoly Baranov	Soviet Union	2: 22: 16.0 SB
21st	Zdzisław Bogusz	Poland	2: 22: 16.0 PB
22nd	Maurice Peiren	Belgium	2: 22: 36.4 PB
23	Juan Hidalgo	Spain	2: 22: 42.4 PB
24	Jan Wawrzuta	Poland	2: 23: 51.6 PB
25th	Manfred Steffny	BR Germany	2: 24: 05.6 SB
26th	Jørgen Jensen	Denmark	2: 24: 33.2 SB
27	Einar Weidemann	Norway	2: 24: 54.0 PB
28	Mario Binato	Italy	2: 24: 57.8 PB
29	René Combes	France	2: 25: 35.6 PB
30th	Huseyin Aktaş	Turkey	2: 25: 39.8 SB
31	Mogens Findal	Denmark	2: 26: 04.2 SB
32	Jean-Pierre Spengler	Switzerland	2: 26: 12.8 PB
33	Carlos Perez	Spain	2: 26: 53.6 SB
34	Bent Natvig	Norway	2: 28: 12.6 PB
35	Ulf Håkansson	Sweden	2: 28: 37.8 PB
36	Geert Jansen	Netherlands	2: 29: 14.4 PB
37	Sven-Olof Lindvall	Sweden	2:30: 38.6 PB
38	Helmuth Kunisch	Switzerland	2:30: 42.4 PB
39	Patrick Coyle	Ireland	2: 30: 45.0 PB
040	Josef Gwerder	Switzerland	2: 33: 06.6 PB
041	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	2: 34: 35.2 PB
	Pat McMahon	Ireland	DNF
	Peter Fredriksson	Sweden
	Bjarne Sletten	Norway
	Seppo Tuominen	Finland
	Paul Angenvoorth	BR Germany
	Nedo Farčić	Yugoslavia
	Fernand Kolbeck	France
	Georg Forster	Austria
	Jürgen Busch	GDR
	Edward Stawiarz	Poland
	Janos Szerenyi	Hungary

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  Zdzisław Bogusz, Poland ( Enschede award ceremony 1969: far left ) - 21st place

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  Geert Jansen, Netherlands ( Groningen 1974 ) - 36th place

Web links and sources

• Men Marathon European Championships 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed February 23, 2019
• European Marathon Championships on marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 23, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed February 23, 2019

Video

• Europei di Helsinki 1971 Maratona Lismont on youtube.com, published May 13, 2015, accessed February 23, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed February 23, 2019