1971 European Athletics Championships

Finnish Postage stamp

Complete results were published.[7]

Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union	10.26 CR	Gerhard Wucherer  West Germany	10.48	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos  Greece	10.56
200 metres	Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union	20.30 CR	Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany	20.71	Jörg Pfeifer  East Germany	20.72
400 metres	David Jenkins  Great Britain	45.45 CR	Marcello Fiasconaro  Italy	45.49	Jan Werner  Poland	45.56
800 metres	Yevhen Arzhanov  Soviet Union	1:45.6 CR	Dieter Fromm  East Germany	1:46.0	Andy Carter  Great Britain	1:46.2
1500 metres	Francesco Arese  Italy	3:38.4 CR	Henryk Szordykowski  Poland	3:38.7	Brendan Foster  Great Britain	3:39.2
5000 metres	Juha Väätäinen  Finland	13:32.6 CR	Jean Wadoux  France	13:33.6	Harald Norpoth  West Germany	13:33.8
10,000 metres	Juha Väätäinen  Finland	27:52.8 CR	Jürgen Haase  East Germany	27:53.4	Rashid Sharafetdinov  Soviet Union	27:56.4
Marathon	Karel Lismont  Belgium	2:13:09 CR	Trevor Wright  Great Britain	2:13:59	Ron Hill  Great Britain	2:14:34
20 kilometres walk	Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union	1:27:20 CR	Gerhard Sperling  East Germany	1:27:29	Paul Nihill  Great Britain	1:27:34
50 kilometres walk	Veniamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union	4:02:22 CR	Christoph Höhne  East Germany	4:04:45	Peter Selzer  East Germany	4:06:11
110 metres hurdles	Frank Siebeck  East Germany	14.00	Alan Pascoe  Great Britain	14.09	Lubomír Nádeníček  Czechoslovakia	14.30
400 metres hurdles	Jean-Claude Nallet  France	49.2 =CR	Christian Rudolph  East Germany	49.3	Dmitriy Stukalov  Soviet Union	50.0
3000 metres steeplechase	Jean-Paul Villain  France	8:25.2	Dušan Moravčík  Czechoslovakia	8:26.2	Pavel Sysoyev  Soviet Union	8:26.4
4 × 100 metres relay	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman  Czechoslovakia (TCH)	39.3	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak  Poland (POL)	39.7	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni  Italy (ITA)	39.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske Thomas Jordan Martin Jellinghaus Hermann Köhler  West Germany (FRG)	3:02.9	Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner  Poland (POL)	3:03.6	Lorenzo Cellerino Giacomo Puosi Sergio Bello Marcello Fiasconaro  Italy (ITA)	3:04.6

Field

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Kęstutis Šapka  Soviet Union	2.20 m	Csaba Dosa  Romania	2.20 m	Rustam Akhmetov  Soviet Union	2.20 m
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany	5.35 m CR	Kjell Isaksson  Sweden	5.30 m	Renato Dionisi  Italy	5.30 m
Long jump	Max Klauß  East Germany	7.92 m	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  Soviet Union	7.91 m	Stanisław Szudrowicz  Poland	7.87 m
Triple jump	Jörg Drehmel  East Germany	17.16 m w	Viktor Saneyev  Soviet Union	17.10 m w	Carol Corbu  Romania	16.87 m
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick  East Germany	21.08 m CR	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg  East Germany	20.47 m	Władysław Komar  Poland	20.04 m
Discus throw	Ludvík Daněk  Czechoslovakia	63.90 m CR	Lothar Milde  East Germany	61.62 m	Géza Fejér  Hungary	61.54 m
Hammer throw	Uwe Beyer  West Germany	72.36 m	Reinhard Theimer  East Germany	71.80 m	Anatoliy Bondarchuk  Soviet Union	71.40 m
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis  Soviet Union	90.68 m	Jānis Doniņš  Soviet Union	85.30 m	Wolfgang Hanisch  East Germany	84.22 m
Decathlon	Joachim Kirst  East Germany	8196 pts CR	Lennart Hedmark  Sweden	8038 pts	Hans-Joachim Walde  West Germany	7951 pts

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	12	13	7	32
2	Soviet Union (URS)	9	3	8	20
3	West Germany (FRG)	5	7	5	17
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	1	1	4
5	France (FRA)	2	1	0	3
6	Finland (FIN)*	2	0	0	2
7	Great Britain (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
	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	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
Totals (17 entries)		38	39	37	114

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.[8]