1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Events at the
1971 European
Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase		 men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men
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The men's 200 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.[1]

Medalists

Gold Valeriy Borzov
 Soviet Union
Silver Franz-Peter Hofmeister
 West Germany
Bronze Jörg Pfeifer
 East Germany

Results

Final

13 August Wind: 0.0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 20.31 CR
2nd Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany 20.71
3rd Jörg Pfeifer  East Germany 20.73
4 Siegfried Schenke  East Germany 20.74
5 Philippe Clerc  Switzerland 20.86
6 Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.88
7 Gérard Fenouil  France 20.92
8 Aleksandr Zhidkikh  Soviet Union 21.23

Semi-finals

12 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 20.86 Q
2 Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany 20.93 Q
3 Aleksandr Zhidkikh  Soviet Union 21.04 Q
4 Siegfried Schenke  East Germany 21.21 Q
5 Luis Sarria  Spain 21.35
6 Joseph Arame  France 21.43
7 Reto Diezi  Switzerland 21.53
8 Jiří Kynos  Czechoslovakia 21.54

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Gérard Fenouil  France 21.15 Q
2 Pietro Mennea  Italy 21.23 Q
3 Philippe Clerc  Switzerland 21.25 Q
4 Jörg Pfeifer  East Germany 21.29 Q
5 Luděk Bohman  Czechoslovakia 21.37
6 Charles Ducasse  France 21.40
7 Aleksey Chebykin  Soviet Union 21.45
8 Zenon Nowosz  Poland 21.56

Heats

12 August

Heat 1

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany 20.92 Q
2 Jörg Pfeifer  East Germany 21.35 Q
3 Zenon Nowosz  Poland 21.47 Q
4 Aleksey Chebykin  Soviet Union 21.58 Q
5 José Luis Sánchez  Spain 21.60
6 Ladislav Kříž  Czechoslovakia 21.71
7 Bjarni Stefánsson  Iceland 21.97

Heat 2

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Aleksandr Zhidkikh  Soviet Union 21.35 Q
2 Charles Ducasse  France 21.40 Q
3 Philippe Clerc  Switzerland 21.53 Q
4 Luděk Bohman  Czechoslovakia 21.61 Q
5 Jean-Pierre Borlée  Belgium 21.68
6 Ertuğrul Oğulbolan  Turkey 22.1

Heat 3

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Gérard Fenouil  France 21.14 Q
2 Pietro Mennea  Italy 21.20 Q
3 Siegfried Schenke  East Germany 21.32 Q
4 Reto Diezi  Switzerland 21.47 Q
5 Karl Honz  West Germany 21.52
6 Ossi Karttunen  Finland 21.64
7 Predrag Križan  Yugoslavia 21.87
8 Alexandru Munteanu  Romania 22.11

Heat 4

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 21.16 Q
2 Joseph Arame  France 21.44 Q
3 Jiří Kynos  Czechoslovakia 21.54 Q
4 Luis Sarria  Spain 21.56 Q
5 Søren Viggo Pedersen  Denmark 21.69
6 Martin Reynolds  United Kingdom 21.71
7 Bo Söderberg  Sweden 21.91

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK, European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014