UP NEXT 2026 Youth Olympics · Dakar · 30 Oct – 15 Nov in 21 days BORN TODAY Blessing Okagbare (NGR) turns 38 · +165 more About

1969 Athens 1974 Rome All 29 editions

Europe Continental championships · since 1934

1971 European Champs

Helsinki, Finland 10–15 Aug 1971

events: 38
medals awarded: 114
nations on the podium: 17
world records: 3

Podiums

Sprints

100m

wind -1.3

1

Valeriy Borzov CR= 10.27

2

Gerhard Wucherer Competed under FRG (West Germany) 10.49

3

Vasilios Papageorgopoulos 10.56

Sprints

200m

wind 0.0

1

Valeriy Borzov CR 20.31

2

Franz-Peter Hofmeister Competed under FRG (West Germany) 20.71

3

Jorg Pfeifer 20.73

Sprints

400m

1

David Jenkins CRNR 45.45

2

Marcello Fiasconaro CRNR 45.49

3

Jan Werner 45.57

Middle & long

800m

1

Yevgeniy Arzhanov CR 1:45.62

2

Dieter Fromm 1:45.96

3

Andy Carter NR 1:46.16

Middle & long

1500m

1

Francesco Arese CR 3:38.43

2

Henryk Szordykowski 3:38.73

3

Brendan Foster 3:39.24

Middle & long

5000m

1

Juha Vaatainen CRNR 13:32.48

2

Jean Wadoux 13:33.56

3

Harald Norpoth Competed under FRG (West Germany) 13:33.79

Middle & long

10,000m

1

Juha Vaatainen CRNR 27:52.78

2

Jürgen Haase NR 27:53.35

3

Rashid Sharafetdinov NR 27:56.26

Road

Marathon

1

Karel Lismont CR 2:13:09

2

Trevor Wright 2:14:00

3

Ron Hill 2:14:35

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

1

Jean-Paul Villain NR 8:25.22

2

Dusan Moravcik Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) NR 8:26.11

3

Pavel Sysoyev 8:26.42

Hurdles

110m hurdles

wind -2.5

1

Frank Siebeck 14.00

2

Alan Pascoe 14.09

3

Lubomir Nadenicek Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 14.31

Hurdles

400m hurdles

1

Jean-Claude Nallet CR= 49.15

2

Christian Rudolph NR 49.34

3

Dmitriy Stukalov 50.04

Jumps

High jump

1

Kestutis Sapka 2.20

2

Csaba Dosza NR 2.20

3

Rustam Akhmetov 2.20

Jumps

Pole vault

1

Wolfgang Nordwig CR 5.35

2

Kjell Isaksson 5.30

3

Renato Dionisi 5.30

Jumps

Long jump

1

Max Klauss 7.92 +0.1

2

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan 7.91 +2.3

3

Stanislaw Szudrowicz 7.87 +0.1

Jumps

Triple jump

1

Jörg Drehmel Best legal: 16.73 17.16 +3.7

2

Viktor Saneyev Best legal: 16.54 17.10 +3.0

3

Carol Corbu 16.87 0.0

Throws

Shot put

1

Hartmut Briesenick CRAR 21.08

2

Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg 20.47

3

Wladyslaw Komar 20.04

Throws

Discus throw

1

Ludvik Danek Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) CR 63.90

2

Lothar Milde 61.62

3

Geza Fejer 61.54

Throws

Hammer throw

1

Uwe Beyer Competed under FRG (West Germany) 72.36

2

Reinhard Theimer 71.80

3

Anatoliy Bondarchuk 71.40

Throws

Javelin throw

1

Janis Lusis 90.68

2

Janis Donins 85.30

3

Wolfgang Hanisch 84.22

Race walks

20 km race walk

1

Mykola Smaga CR 1:27:21

2

Gerhard Sperling 1:27:29

3

Paul Nihill 1:27:35

Race walks

50 km race walk

1

Veniamin Soldatenko CR 4:02:22

2

Christoph Höhne 4:04:46

3

Peter Selzer 4:06:11

Combined

Decathlon

1

Joachim Kirst Updated for 1984 table: 8188 pts CR 8196

2

Lennart Hedmark Updated for 1984 table: 8054 pts NR 8038

3

Hans-Joachim Walde Updated for 1984 table: 7927 pts / Compete for FRG 7951

Relays

4x100m

1

Czech Republic

Ladislav Kriz Juraj Demec Jiri Kynos Ludek Bohman

NR 39.32

2

Poland

Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak

39.72

3

Italy

Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni

39.78

Relays

4x400m

1

Germany

Horst-Rudiger Schloske Thomas Jordan (1949) Martin Jellinghaus Hermann Kohler

3:02.94

2

Poland

Andrzej Badenski Jan Balachowski Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner

3:03.64

3

Italy

Lorenzo Cellerino Giacomo Puosi Sergio Bello Marcello Fiasconaro

3:04.58

Medal table

17 nations · 114 medals

#	Nation				Total	Share
1	Germany DR (1949-89) GDR	12	13	7	32
2	Soviet Union URS	9	3	8	20
3	Germany GER	5	7	5	17
4	Czech Republic CZE	2	1	1	4
5	France FRA	2	1	0	3
6	Finland FIN	2	0	0	2
7	Great Britain & NI GBR	1	4	5	10
8	Poland POL	1	3	5	9
9	Italy ITA	1	1	3	5
10	Austria AUT	1	0	0	1
11	Belgium BEL	1	0	0	1
12	Yugoslavia SR JUG	1	0	0	1
13	Romania ROU	0	2	1	3
14	Sweden SWE	0	2	0	2
15	Hungary HUN	0	1	1	2
16	Switzerland SUI	0	1	0	1
17	Greece GRE	0	0	1	1

Records set

3 WR · 24 CR · 2 AR

WR Karin Burneleit 1500m · Women 4:09.6
WR Faina Melnik Discus throw · Women 64.22
WR Germany DR (1949-89) 4x400m · Women 3:29.28
CR= Valeriy Borzov 100m · Men 10.27
CR Valeriy Borzov 200m · Men 20.31
CR David Jenkins 400m · Men 45.45
CR Marcello Fiasconaro 400m · Men 45.49
CR Yevgeniy Arzhanov 800m · Men 1:45.62
CR Francesco Arese 1500m · Men 3:38.43
CR Juha Vaatainen 5000m · Men 13:32.48
CR Juha Vaatainen 10,000m · Men 27:52.78
CR Karel Lismont Marathon · Men 2:13:09
CR= Jean-Claude Nallet 400m hurdles · Men 49.15
CR Wolfgang Nordwig Pole vault · Men 5.35
CR Hartmut Briesenick Shot put · Men 21.08
AR Hartmut Briesenick Shot put · Men 21.08
CR Ludvik Danek Discus throw · Men 63.90
CR Mykola Smaga 20 km race walk · Men 1:27:21
CR Veniamin Soldatenko 50 km race walk · Men 4:02:22
CR Joachim Kirst Decathlon · Men 8196
CR Renate Stecher 100m · Women 11.35
CR Renate Stecher 200m · Women 22.70
CR Vera Nikolic 800m · Women 2:00.0
CR Karin Balzer 100m hurdles · Women 12.94
CR Ilona Gusenbauer High jump · Women 1.87
CR Ingrid Mickler-Becker Long jump · Women 6.76
CR Daniela Jaworska Javelin throw · Women 61.00
CR Heide Rosendahl Pentathlon · Women 4675
AR Germany 4x100m · Women 43.28