1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

None Men's 100 metres 1971 European Athletics Championships Helsinki Olympic Stadium Helsinki 10 August (heats) 11 August (semifinals & final) 29 18 10.27 Valeriy Borzov 1955 Gerhard Wucherer Vasilios Papageorgopoulos 1970 URS FRG GRE 1969 1974 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. 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 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. 20em TCH (3) DEN (1) GDR (3) FIN (1) FRA (3) GRE 1970 (1) ISL (1) ITA (1) NOR (1) POL (3) ROU 1965 (1) URS 1955 (2) ESP 1945 (1) SWE (1) SUI (1) TUR (1) GBR (1) FRG (3) Results Heats 10 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Dominique Chauvelot FRA 10.57 Q 2 Zenon Nowosz POL 10.62 Q 3 Karl-Heinz Klotz FRG 10.75 Q 4 Raimo Vilén FIN 10.84 Q 5 Thorsten Johansson SWE 10.95 6 Ole Egil Reitan NOR 11.14 Wind: -1.6 m/s Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Valeriy Borzov URS 1955 10.56 Q 2 Hans-Jürgen Bombach GDR 10.75 Q 3 Eckart Brieger FRG 10.77 Q 4 Norberto Oliosi ITA 10.82 Q 5 José Luis Sánchez Paraíso ESP 1945 10.87 6 Petr Utekal TCH 10.98 7 Alexandru Munteaunu ROU 1965 10.99 8 Ertün Erdöl TUR 11.22 Wind: -1.3 m/s Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Gerhard Wucherer FRG 10.33 CR European Athletics Championships, Q 2 Gilles Échevin FRA 10.44 Q 3 Aleksandr Kornelyuk URS 1955 10.44 Q 4 Brian Green GBR 10.45 Q 5 Wiesław Maniak POL 10.74 6 Juraj Demeč TCH 10.77 7 Manfred Kokot GDR 10.78 8 Bjarni Stefánsson ISL 11.00 Wind: -0.2 m/s Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Vasilios Papageorgopoulos GRE 1970 10.46 Q 2 Siegfried Schenke GDR 10.56 Q 3 Luděk Bohman TCH 10.69 Q 4 Philippe Clerc SUI 10.73 Q 5 Tadeusz Cuch POL 10.75 6 Søren Viggo Pedersen DEN 10.83 7 René Metz FRA 11.27 Wind: 0.0 m/s Semi-finals 11 August Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Gilles Échevin FRA 10.44 Q 2 Vasilios Papageorgopoulos GRE 1970 10.51 Q 3 Aleksandr Kornelyuk URS 1955 10.52 Q 4 Siegfried Schenke GDR 10.54 Q 5 Norberto Oliosi ITA 10.68 6 Karl-Heinz Klotz FRG 10.69 7 Philippe Clerc SUI 10.70 8 Raimo Vilén FIN DNS Wind: 0.0 m/s Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Valeriy Borzov URS 1955 10.36 Q 2 Gerhard Wucherer FRG 10.44 Q 3 Zenon Nowosz POL 10.59 Q 4 Dominique Chauvelot FRA 10.60 Q 5 Brian Green GBR 10.62 6 Hans-Jürgen Bombach GDR 10.75 7 Eckart Brieger FRG 10.77 8 Luděk Bohman TCH 10.84 Wind: 0.0 m/s Final 11 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Valeriy Borzov URS 1955 10.27 CR European Athletics Championships Gerhard Wucherer FRG 10.49 Vasilios Papageorgopoulos GRE 1970 10.56 4 Siegfried Schenke GDR 10.63 5 Zenon Nowosz POL 10.66 6 Aleksandr Kornelyuk URS 1955 10.66 7 Dominique Chauvelot FRA 10.67 8 Gilles Échevin FRA 11.4 Wind: -1.3 m/s References Category:100 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1971 European Athletics Championships