European Athletics Championships 1971 / women's javelin

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	17 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalists
gold	Daniela Jaworska ( POL )
silver	Ameli Koloska ( FRG )
bronze	Ruth Fuchs ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The javelin throw of women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 12 and 13 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

European champion was Daniela Jaworska from Poland . She won in front of the German thrower Ameli Koloska , former Ameli Isermeyer. Bronze went to Ruth Fuchs .

Records

Existing records

World record	62.40 m	Jelena Gorchakova	OS Tokyo , Japan	October 16, 1964
European record
EM record	59.76 m	Angéla Ránky	EM Athens , Greece	18th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Daniela Jaworska improved the existing EM record in the final on August 13 by 1.24 m to 61.00 m.  

qualification

August 12, 1971, 12:30 p.m.

Seventeen participants competed in two groups for the joint qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 55.00 m. Since only six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So in the end, 52.90 m was enough for participation in the finals.

For all participants who reached the final, the qualification groups are given and listed here, for the five other high jumpers there is no group information.

space	Surname	nation	group	Width (m)
1	Ameli Koloska	BR Germany	B.	58.44
2	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	B.	56.60
3	Nataša Urbančič	Yugoslavia	A.	56.38
4th	Ewa Gryziecka	Poland	B.	55.68
5	Nina Marakina	Soviet Union	A.	55.64
6th	Angéla Ránky	Hungary	B.	55.44
7th	Daniela Jaworska	Poland	B.	54.42
8th	Cecylia Bajer	Poland	A.	53.98
9	Anneliese Gerhards	BR Germany	B.	53.68
10	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	A.	53.44
11	Márta Rudas	Hungary	B.	53.18
12	Maria Kucserka	Hungary	B.	52.90
13	Lyutvian Mollowa	Bulgaria	k. A.	52.68
14th	Eva Janko	Austria		52.20
15th	Kirsti Launela	Finland		50.94
16	Inger-Lise Fallo	Norway		46.78
17th	Svetlana Koroljowa	Soviet Union		46.14

With a bronze medal Ruth Fuchs launched into a big international career - including two each Olympic Gold ( 1972 / 1976 ) and EM -Gold ( 1974 / 1978 )

final

August 13, 1971

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Daniela Jaworska	Poland	61.00 CR
2	Ameli Koloska	BR Germany	59.40
3	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	59.16
4th	Angéla Ránky	Hungary	57.44
5	Anneliese Gerhards	BR Germany	55.98
6th	Ewa Gryziecka	Poland	55.96
7th	Maria Kucserka	Hungary	55.70
8th	Márta Rudas	Hungary	55.62
9	Nina Marakina	Soviet Union	55.34
10	Nataša Urbančič	Yugoslavia	53.66
11	Cecylia Bajer	Poland	50.50
NM	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	without space

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  For the Olympic champion from 1968 - then as Angéla Németh - and defending champion Angéla Ránky, it was enough for fourth place this time

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  Márta Rudas, formerly also successful as Márta Antál, came in eighth - her greatest success: Olympic silver in 1964

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  Nataša Urbancic, EM -Vierte of 1969 , as was demonstrated in 1966 tenth - in 1974 it was EM -Third

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  The 1960 Olympic champion and 1962 European champion Elvīra Ozoliņa did not succeed in a valid throw in this final

Web links

• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed July 6, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 6, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 419 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 6, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed July 6, 2019