1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

None Men's 3000 metres steeplechase European Athletics Championships The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 15 August 1971. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 412–420 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold Jean-Paul Villain FRASilver Dušan Moravčík TCHBronze Pavel Sysoev Yakovlevich URS 1955 Results Final 15 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jean-Paul Villain FRA 8:25.12 NR Dušan Moravčík TCH 8:26.11 NR Pavel Sysoyev URS 1955 8:26.42 4 Romualdas Bitė URS 1955 8:26.97 5 Mikko Ala-Leppilampi FIN 8:30.94 6 Georgi Tikhov BUL 1971 8:32.15 7 Kazimierz Maranda POL 8:33.05 8 Józef Rębacz POL 8:35.12 9 Vladimiras Dudinas URS 1955 8:38.96 10 Anders Gärderud SWE 8:39.58 11 Pekka Päivärinta FIN 8:55.34 12 Toni Feldmann SUI DNF Heats 13 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Pavel Sysoyev URS 1955 8:29.65 Q 2 Toni Feldmann SUI 8:29.75 NR Q 3 Georgi Tikhov BUL 1971 8:30.87 Q 4 Józef Rębacz POL 8:33.36 Q 5 Tapio Kantanen FIN 8:35.88 6 Umberto Risi ITA 8:37.15 7 Spyros Kontossoros GRE 1970 8:38.24 NR 8 Paul Thys BEL 8:41.11 9 Willi Wagner FRG 8:44.50 10 Ståle Engen NOR 8:44.68 11 Gérard Delalandre FRA 8:54.70 12 Ron McAndrew GBR 9:02.11 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Dušan Moravčík TCH 8:32.81 Q 2 Pekka Päivärinta FIN 8:33.34 Q 3 Jean-Paul Villain FRA 8:34.17 Q 4 Romualdas Bitė URS 1955 8:34.28 Q 5 Arne Risa NOR 8:35.62 6 Henryk Lesiuk POL 8:40.34 7 Gheorghe Cefan ROU 1965 8:44.34 8 Hans-Dieter Schulten FRG 8:46.98 9 Carlos Lopes POR 8:54.83 10 Francesco Valente ITA 8:57.93 11 Hans Menet SUI 8:58.27 Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Anders Gärderud SWE 8:28.32 NR Q 2 Mikko Ala-Leppilampi FIN 8:28.96 Q 3 Vladimiras Dudinas URS 1955 8:30.30 Q 4 Kazimierz Maranda POL 8:31.85 Q 5 Sverre Sørnes NOR 8:35.24 6 Andy Holden GBR 8:36.11 7 Wigmar Petersen DEN 8:36.67 NR 8 Gérard Buchheit FRA 8:40.07 9 Mikhail Zhelev BUL 1971 8:50.64 10 Milan Tomić SFR Yugoslavia 8:53.31 Participation According to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event. 22em BEL (1) BUL 1971 (2) TCH (1) DEN (1) FIN (3) FRA (3) GRE 1970 (1) ITA (2) NOR (3) POL (3) POR (1) ROU 1965 (1) URS 1955 (3) SWE (1) SUI (2) GBR (2) FRG (2) SFR Yugoslavia (1) References Category:Steeplechase at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1971 European Athletics Championships