The 10th (X) European Athletics Championships were held from 10 August to 15 August 1971 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
Men's results
Complete results were published. Track 1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 Valeriy Borzov 10.26 Gerhard Wucherer 10.48Vasilis Papageorgopoulos 10.56Valeriy Borzov 20.30 Franz-Peter Hofmeister 20.71Jörg Pfeifer 20.72David Jenkins 45.45 Marcello Fiasconaro 45.49Jan Werner 45.56Yevhen Arzhanov 1:45.62 Dieter Fromm 1:45.96Andy Carter 1:46.16Francesco Arese 3:38.43 Henryk Szordykowski 3:38.73Brendan Foster 3:39.24Juha Väätäinen 13:32.48 Jean Wadoux 13:33.56Harald Norpoth 13:33.79Juha Väätäinen 27:52.78 Jürgen Haase 27:53.35Rashid Sharafetdinov 27:56.26Karel Lismont 2:13:09 Trevor Wright 2:13:59Ron Hill 2:14:34Nikolay Smaga 1:27:20 Gerhard Sperling 1:27:29Paul Nihill 1:27:34Veniamin Soldatenko 4:02:22 Christoph Höhne 4:04:45Peter Selzer 4:06:11Frank Siebeck 14.00Alan Pascoe 14.09Lubomír Nádeníček 14.30Jean-Claude Nallet 49.15 =Christian Rudolph 49.34Dmitriy Stukalov 50.04Jean-Paul Villain 8:25.12Dušan Moravčík 8:26.11Pavel Sysoyev 8:26.42Ladislav KřížJuraj DemečJiří KynosLuděk Bohman 39.32Gerard GramseTadeusz CuchZenon NowoszMarian Dudziak 39.72Vincenzo GueriniPietro MenneaPasqualino AbetiEnnio Preatoni 39.78Horst-Rüdiger SchlöskeThomas JordanMartin JellinghausHermann Köhler 3:02.94Andrzej BadeńskiJan BalachowskiWaldemar KoryckiJan Werner 3:03.64Lorenzo CellerinoGiacomo PuosiSergio BelloMarcello Fiasconaro 3:04.58
Field 1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 Kęstutis Šapka 2.20 mCsaba Dosa 2.20 mRustam Akhmetov 2.20 mWolfgang Nordwig 5.35 m Kjell Isaksson 5.30 mRenato Dionisi 5.30 mMax Klauß 7.92 mIgor Ter-Ovanesyan 7.91 mStanisław Szudrowicz 7.87 mJörg Drehmel 17.16 m wViktor Saneyev 17.10 m wCarol Corbu 16.87 mHartmut Briesenick 21.08 m Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg 20.47 mWładysław Komar 20.04 mLudvík Daněk 63.90 m Lothar Milde 61.62 mGéza Fejér 61.54 mUwe Beyer 72.36 mReinhard Theimer 71.80 mAnatoliy Bondarchuk 71.40 mJānis Lūsis 90.68 mJānis Doniņš 85.30 mWolfgang Hanisch 84.22 mJoachim Kirst 8196 pts Lennart Hedmark 8038 ptsHans-Joachim Walde 7951 pts
Women's results Track 1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 Renate Stecher 11.35 =Ingrid Mickler 11.46Elfgard Schittenhelm 11.51Renate Stecher 22.70 Györgyi Balogh 23.26Irena Szewińska 23.32Helga Seidler 52.14Inge Bödding 52.90Ingelore Lohse 52.93Vera Nikolić 2:00.00 Pat Lowe 2:01.66Rosemary Stirling 2:02.08Karin Burneleit 4:09.62 , ,Gunhild Hoffmeister 4:10.31Ellen Tittel 4:10.35Karin Balzer 12.94 Annelie Ehrhardt 12.96Teresa Sukniewicz 13.21Elfgard SchittenhelmInge HeltenAnnegret IrrgangIngrid Mickler 43.28 Karin BalzerRenate StecherPetra VogtEllen Stropahl 43.62Lyudmila ZharkovaGalina BukharinaMarina SidorovaNadezhda Besfamilnaya 44.45Rita KühneIngelore LohseHelga SeidlerMonika Zehrt 3:29.28 Anette RückesChristel FreseHildegard FalckInge Bödding 3:33.04Raissa NikaronovaVera PopkovaNadezhda KolesnikovaNatalya Chistyakova 3:34.11
Field 1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978 Ilona Gusenbauer 1.87 m Cornelia Popescu 1.85 mBarbara Inkpen 1.85 mIngrid Mickler 6.76 m Meta Antenen 6.73 mHeide Rosendahl 6.66 mNadezhda Chizhova 20.16 mMarita Lange 19.25 mMargitta Gummel 19.22 mFaina Melnik 64.22 m , Liesel Westermann 61.68 mLyudmila Muravyova 59.48 mDaniela Jaworska 61.00 m Ameli Koloska 59.40 mRuth Fuchs 59.16 m Heide Rosendahl 4675 ptsBurglinde Pollak 4638 ptsMargrit Herbst 4570 pts
Medal table
Participation According to an unofficial count, 871 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, fourteen athletes more than the official number of 857 as published.
(16) (16) (12) (32) (14) (68) (48) (67) (1) (4) (42) (3) (9) (47) (1) (1) (20) (30) (65) (5) (18) (84) (16) (43) (20) (9) (65) (88) (27)
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