European Athletics Championships 1971 / men's long jump

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	30 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalists
gold	Max Klauß ( GDR )
silver	Igor Ter-Owanessjan ( URS )
bronze	Stanislaw Szudrowicz ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The long jump men at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 10 and 11 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

Max Klauß from the GDR became European champion . He won this competition, the defending champion and Olympic bronze medalists from before the triple winner 1960 / 1964 Igor Ter-Owanessjan . Stanislaw Szudrowicz from Poland won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record	8.35 m	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1967
		Josef Schwarz	Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 15, 1970
Championship record	8.00 m	Max Klauss	EM Athens , Greece	18th September 1969

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

The 1968 Olympic runner-up, Klaus Beer, failed in qualifying

August 10, 1971, 5:30 p.m.

Thirty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.70 m. Fifteen athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	achieved
1	Tõnu Lepik	Soviet Union	7.93 SB	1st attempt
2	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.90	Second attempt
3	Christian Tourret	France	7.82 SB	1st attempt
4th	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.82 SB	3. Attempt
5	Josef Schwarz	BR Germany	7.80 SB	Second attempt
6th	Vasile Sărucan	Romania	7.79	Second attempt
7th	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	7.77 SB	Second attempt
8th	Jan Kobuszewski	Poland	7.77	Second attempt
9	Reijo Toivonen	Finland	7.77	3. Attempt
10	Terje Haugland	Norway	7.75 PB	Second attempt
11	Stanislaw Szudrowicz	Poland	7.75	1st attempt
12	Finn Bendixen	Norway	7.74	3. Attempt
13	Max Klauss	GDR	7.72	Second attempt
14th	Valery Pidluschnyj	Soviet Union	7.72 SB	3. Attempt
15th	Mauri Myllymäki	Finland	7.70	3. Attempt
16	Klaus Beer	GDR	7.65	k. A.
17th	Hans Baumgartner	BR Germany	7.62
18th	Dušan Košutić	Yugoslavia	7.60
19th	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia	7.58
20th	Andreas Gloerfeld	BR Germany	7.57
21st	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	7.52
22nd	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	7.50 PB
23	Jack Pani	France	7.41 SB
24	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	7.35 SB
25th	Gürol Dinsel	Turkey	7.27 PB
26th	Geoff Hignett	Great Britain	7.25 PB
27	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	7.24 SB
28	Gábor Katona	Hungary	7.22 SB
29	Jaroslav Brož	Czechoslovakia	5.92 SB
NM	Alan Lerwill	Great Britain	without space

final

European champion Max Klauss

August 11, 1971, 6:20 pm

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Max Klauss	GDR	7.92 SB
2	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	7.91
3	Stanislaw Szudrowicz	Poland	7.87
4th	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.85 SB
5	Mauri Myllymäki	Finland	7.85 PB
6th	Reijo Toivonen	Finland	7.82 SB
7th	Tõnu Lepik	Soviet Union	7.78
8th	Jan Kobuszewski	Poland	7.75
9	Christian Tourret	France	7.74
10	Valery Pidluschnyj	Soviet Union	7.68
11	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.56
12	Josef Schwarz	BR Germany	7.50
13	Terje Haugland	Norway	7.41
14th	Finn Bendixen	Norway	7.32
15th	Vasile Sărucan	Romania	6.05

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  Also this year, Igor Ter-Owanessjan continued his run of successes: since his first title win in 1958 , he was three times first and second twice, in addition, there were two bronze medals at the Olympic Games ( 1960 / 1964 )

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  1964 Olympic champion and 1966 European champion Lynn Davies came in fourth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 25, 2019
• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Men Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed June 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Long Jump European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 414f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 25, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed June 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on June 25, 2019 (Spanish / English)