European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's long jump
10th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Long jump of women |
city | Helsinki |
Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Participants | 17 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | August 13 (qualifying) August 14 (final) |
Medalists | |
gold | Ingrid Mickler-Becker ( FRG ) |
silver | Meta antennas ( SUI ) |
bronze | Heide Rosendahl ( FRG ) |
The long jump women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 13 and 14 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.
The long jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany won two medals with gold and bronze. The European champion was the 1968 pentathlon Olympic champion Ingrid Mickler-Becker , who had already won silver over 100 meters here and was still European champion with the sprint relay on the final day. She won Meta Antenen from Switzerland before the pentathlon vice European champion in 1969 . The world record holder Heide Rosendahl , who had already become European pentathlon champion on the day of the long jump final, won the bronze medal.
Records
Existing records
World record | 6.84 m | Heide Rosendahl | Turin , Italy | 3rd September 1970 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 6.55 m | Irena Kirszenstein | EM Budapest , Hungary | 3rd September 1966 |
Record improvement
European champion Ingrid Mickler-Becker improved the existing EM record in the final on August 14 by 21 centimeters to 6.76 m.
qualification
August 13, 1971, 11:00 a.m.
Seventeen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.25 m. Since only seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.09 m was enough for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Heide Rosendahl | BR Germany | 6.40 |
2 | Irena Szewińska | Poland | 6.31 |
3 | Margrit Olfert | GDR | 6.25 |
4th | Barbara-Anne Barrett | Great Britain | 6.23 |
5 | Birgitta Larsson | Sweden | 6.09 |
6th | Sieglinde Ammann | Switzerland | 6.03 |
7th | Hannah Kleinpeter | Austria | 5.74 |
8th | Margaret Murphy | Ireland | 5.73 |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Sheila Sherwood | Great Britain | 6.41 |
2 | Ingrid Mickler-Becker | BR Germany | 6.40 |
3 | Christa Herzog | BR Germany | 6.40 |
4th | Meta antennas | Switzerland | 6.28 |
5 | Viorica Viscopoleanu | Romania | 6.17 |
6th | Radojka Franzotti | Yugoslavia | 6.12 |
7th | Diana Jorgowa | Bulgaria | 6.09 |
8th | Tuula Rautanen | Finland | 6.01 |
9 | Jarmila Strejčková | Czechoslovakia | 5.66 |
DNS | Odette Ducas | France |
final
August 14, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Ingrid Mickler-Becker | BR Germany | 6.76 CR |
2 | Meta antennas | Switzerland | 6.73 NO |
3 | Heide Rosendahl | BR Germany | 6.66 |
4th | Sheila Sherwood | Great Britain | 6.62 |
5 | Irena Szewińska | Poland | 6.62 |
6th | Viorica Viscopoleanu | Romania | 6.39 |
7th | Christa Herzog | BR Germany | 6.38 |
8th | Barbara-Anne Barrett | Great Britain | 6.31 |
9 | Margrit Olfert | GDR | 6.29 |
10 | Diana Jorgowa | Bulgaria | 6.07 |
11 | Birgitta Larsson | Sweden | 6.06 |
12 | Radojka Franzotti | Yugoslavia | 6.05 |
Irena Szewinska, formerly Irena Kirszenstein (here in 2007) , at these championships again as a long jumper (in this discipline, among other things, European champion from 1966 ) reached fifth place / as a three-time Olympic champion on the sprint courses (most recently in 1976 over 400 meters ) and five-time European champion she is one of the best athletes in sports history
The Olympic champion from 1968 and vice European champion from 1969 Viorica Viscopoleanu came in sixth place
Web links
- European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 5, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Long Jump European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 418 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 5, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, long jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
- 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed July 5, 2019