European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's javelin
10th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's javelin throw |
city | Helsinki |
Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Attendees | 26 athletes from 12 countries |
Competition phase | August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final) |
Medalists | |
gold | Jānis Lūsis ( URS ) |
silver | Jānis Doniņš ( URS ) |
bronze | Wolfgang Hanisch ( GDR ) |
The javelin men in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 11 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.
In this competition, the Soviet throwers recorded a double victory. European champion was the 1968 Olympic champion Jānis Lūsis , who already secured his fourth European title here . Second place went to Jānis Doniņš. Wolfgang Hanisch from the GDR won the bronze medal.
Existing records
World record | 92.70 m | Jorma Kinnunen | Tampere , Finland | June 18, 1969 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 91.52 m | Jānis Lūsis | EM Athens , Greece | 19th September 1969 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
qualification
August 10, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
26 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 78.00 m. Since only ten 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 finally 77.52 m was enough for the final.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | Best width (m) |
1 | Jānis Lūsis | Soviet Union | 84.44 | - | - | 84.44 |
2 | Wolfgang Hanisch | GDR | 65.04 | 74.80 | 81.72 | 81.72 |
3 | Hannu Siitonen | Finland | 80.78 | 77.28 | - | 80.78 |
4th | Klaus Wolfermann | BR Germany | 80.14 | - | - | 80.14 |
5 | Jānis Doniņš | Soviet Union | 79.12 | - | - | 79.12 |
6th | József Csik | Hungary | 75.52 | 73.60 | 78.80 | 78.80 SB |
7th | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk | Poland | 74.56 | 78.80 | - | 78.80 |
8th | Hermann Schlechter | BR Germany | 78.68 | - | - | 78.68 |
9 | Miklós Németh | Hungary | 78.28 | 78.28 SB | ||
10 | Jorma Kinnunen | Finland | 76.12 | x | 78.12 | 78.12 |
11 | Urs von Wartburg | Switzerland | 75.06 | 77.84 | x | 77.84 SB |
12 | Renzo Cramerotti | Italy | 77.52 | x | 69.66 | 77.52 |
13 | Lech Krupiński | Poland | 76.60 | x | x | 76.60 SB |
14th | Zygmunt Jałoszyński | Poland | 71.08 | x | 76.54 | 76.54 |
15th | Gergely Kulcsár | Hungary | 76.48 | x | 75.30 | 76.48 |
16 | Manuel Ibanez | France | 76.44 | x | 68.92 | 76.44 |
17th | Jan Pedersen | Norway | 75.62 | 71.66 | x | 75.62 PB |
18th | Alexander Makarov | Soviet Union | 71.42 | x | 75.60 | 75.60 SB |
19th | Jorma Jaakola | Finland | 76.64 | x | 73.80 | 76.64 SB |
20th | Dave Travis | Great Britain | 72.70 | x | 73.32 | 73.32 SB |
21st | Gerd Simonsen | BR Germany | 73.26 | 66.16 | 71.70 | 73.26 |
22nd | Jan Svensson | Sweden | 67.76 | 73.14 | x | 73.14 PB |
23 | Arve Olsson | Norway | 72.74 | x | x | 72.74 |
24 | Jan Bohman | Sweden | 72.44 | 72.12 | x | 72.44 SB |
25th | Manfred Stolle | GDR | 68.18 | x | x | 68.18 SB |
26th | Per-Eric Smiding | Sweden | x | x | 62.34 | 62.34 SB |
Dave Travis, European Championship ninth in 1969 , retired with 72.32 m in the qualification
Manfred Stolle, fifth in the Olympics in 1968 , had no chance of making it to the final with 69.18 m
final
August 11, 1971, 5:17 pm
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) | Best width (m) |
1 | Jānis Lūsis | Soviet Union | 82.78 | 90.68 | 84.76 | x | x | 82.32 | 90.68 SB |
2 | Jānis Doniņš | Soviet Union | 85.30 | 81.08 | 82.20 | - | - | x | 85.30 |
3 | Wolfgang Hanisch | GDR | 79.38 | 77.16 | 84.22 | x | 78.50 | 77.94 | 84.22 SB |
4th | Hannu Siitonen | Finland | 73.90 | 81.08 | x | 83.94 | x | 77.70 | 83.94 SB |
5 | Jorma Kinnunen | Finland | 79.84 | 80.96 | x | x | x | 77.94 | 80.96 SB |
6th | Klaus Wolfermann | BR Germany | x | 80.06 | 80.82 | 78.14 | 76.12 | 77.36 | 80.82 SB |
7th | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk | Poland | x | 79.90 | 80.56 | 79.02 | 79.40 | 77.68 | 80.56 SB |
8th | Hermann Schlechter | BR Germany | 70.86 | 80.24 | x | 71.68 | 69.38 | 75.08 | 80.24 PB |
9 | Miklós Németh | Hungary | 76.58 | 76.82 | 75.44 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
76.82 | ||
10 | József Csik | Hungary | 75.58 | 76.24 | 75.88 | 76.24 | |||
11 | Renzo Cramerotti | Italy | 72.38 | 72.92 | 71.28 | 72.92 | |||
12 | Urs von Wartburg | Switzerland | 68.96 | x | 72.38 | 72.38 |
The 1968 Olympic champion Jānis Lūsis (here in 2011) won his fourth European Championship title in a row
Klaus Wolfermann - here in 2011 - came in sixth place, the following year he became Olympic champion
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 28, 2019
- European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men Javelin Throw 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 Javelin Throw European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 415f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 28, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, javelin men 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. Javelin Men , Retrieved June 28, 2019