The men's 100 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.

The winning margin was 0.22 seconds which with the conclusion of the 2024 championships remains the only time the men's 100 metres has been won by more than 0.2 seconds at these championships.

Participation According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

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Results Heats 10 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Dominique Chauvelot 10.57 2 Zenon Nowosz 10.62 3 Karl-Heinz Klotz 10.75 4 Raimo Vilén 10.84 5 Thorsten Johansson 10.95 6 Ole Egil Reitan 11.14 Wind: -1.6 m/s

Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Valeriy Borzov 10.56 2 Hans-Jürgen Bombach 10.75 3 Eckart Brieger 10.77 4 Norberto Oliosi 10.82 5 José Luis Sánchez Paraíso 10.87 6 Petr Utekal 10.98 7 Alexandru Munteaunu 10.99 8 Ertün Erdöl 11.22 Wind: -1.3 m/s

Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Gerhard Wucherer 10.33 , 2 Gilles Échevin 10.44 3 Aleksandr Kornelyuk 10.44 4 Brian Green 10.45 5 Wiesław Maniak 10.74 6 Juraj Demeč 10.77 7 Manfred Kokot 10.78 8 Bjarni Stefánsson 11.00 Wind: -0.2 m/s

Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Vasilios Papageorgopoulos 10.46 2 Siegfried Schenke 10.56 3 Luděk Bohman 10.69 4 Philippe Clerc 10.73 5 Tadeusz Cuch 10.75 6 Søren Viggo Pedersen 10.83 7 René Metz 11.27 Wind: 0.0 m/s

Semi-finals 11 August Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Gilles Échevin 10.44 2 Vasilios Papageorgopoulos 10.51 3 Aleksandr Kornelyuk 10.52 4 Siegfried Schenke 10.54 5 Norberto Oliosi 10.68 6 Karl-Heinz Klotz 10.69 7 Philippe Clerc 10.70 Raimo Vilén DNS Wind: 0.0 m/s

Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Valeriy Borzov 10.36 2 Gerhard Wucherer 10.44 3 Zenon Nowosz 10.59 4 Dominique Chauvelot 10.60 5 Brian Green 10.62 6 Hans-Jürgen Bombach 10.75 7 Eckart Brieger 10.77 8 Luděk Bohman 10.84 Wind: 0.0 m/s

Final 11 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Valeriy Borzov 10.27 Gerhard Wucherer 10.49 Vasilios Papageorgopoulos 10.56 4 Siegfried Schenke 10.63 5 Zenon Nowosz 10.66 6 Aleksandr Kornelyuk 10.66 7 Dominique Chauvelot 10.67 8 Gilles Échevin 11.4 Wind: -1.3 m/s

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