1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 2nd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1971 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	6.6a	Jobst Hirscht (FRG)	6.7a	Manfred Kokot (GDR)	6.8a
400 metres	Andrzej Badeński (POL)	46.8 CR	Boris Savchuk (URS)	47.4	Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS)	47.6
800 metres	Yevgeniy Arzhanov (URS)	1:48.7	Phil Lewis (GBR)	1:50.5	Andrzej Kupczyk (POL)	1:50.5
1500 metres	Henryk Szordykowski (POL)	3:41.4 CR	Vladimir Panteley (URS)	3:41.5	Gianni Del Buono (ITA)	3:42.1
3000 metres	Peter Stewart (GBR)	7:53.6	Wilfried Scholz (GDR)	7:54.4	Yuriy Aleksashin (URS)	8:01.2
60 metres hurdles	Eckart Berkes (FRG)	7.8a	Aleksandr Demus (URS)	7.9a	Sergio Liani (ITA)	7.9a
4×400 m relay	Poland Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski	3:11.1	Soviet Union Aleksandr Bratchikov Semyon Kocher Boris Savchuk Yevgeniy Borisenko	3:11.9	Bulgaria Krestyu Christov Alexander Yanev Alexander Popov Yordan Todorov	3:15.6
4×800 m relay	Soviet Union Valeriy Taratynov Stanislav Meshcherskich Alexey Taranov Viktor Semyashkin	7:17.8	Poland Krzysztof Linkowski Zenon Szordykowski Michał Skowronek Kazimierz Wardak	7:19.2	West Germany Paul-Heinz Wellmann Godehard Brysch Dieter Friedrich Bernd Eppler	7:25.0
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.40 CR	Kjell Isaksson (SWE)	5.35	Yuriy Isakov (URS)	5.30
High jump	István Major (HUN)	2.17	Jüri Tarmak (URS)	2.17	Endre Kelemen (HUN)	2.17
Long jump	Hans Baumgartner (FRG)	8.12	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	7.91	Vasile Sarucan (ROM)	7.88
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.83	Carol Corbu (ROM)	16.83	Gennadiy Savlevich (URS)	16.24
Shot put	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	20.19	Valeriy Voykin (URS)	19.54	Ricky Bruch (SWE)	19.50

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Renate Stecher (GDR)	7.3a	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	7.4a	Annegret Irrgang (FRG)	7.4a
400 metres	Vera Popkova (URS)	53.7	Inge Bödding (FRG)	54.3	Maria Sykora (AUT)	54.4
800 metres	Hildegard Falck (FRG)	2:06.1	Ileana Silai (ROM)	2:06.5	Rosemary Stirling (GBR)	2:06.6
1500 metres	Margaret Beacham (GBR)	4:17.2 CR	Lyudmila Bragina (URS)	4:17.8	Tamara Pangelova (URS)	4:18.1
60 metres hurdles	Karin Balzer (GDR)	8.1a	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	8.1a	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	8.3a
4×200 m relay	Soviet Union Marina Nikiforova Tatyana Kondrasheva Lyudmila Aksyonova Natalya Chistyakova	1:37.1	West Germany Annelie Wilden Elfgard Schittenhelm Annegret Kroniger Christine Tackenberg	1:38.0	Bulgaria Ivanka Venkova Ivanka Koshnicharska Sofka Kazandzhieva Monka Bobcheva	1:39.7
4×400 m relay	Soviet Union Lyubov Finogenova Galina Kamardina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Aksyonova	3:36.6	West Germany Gisela Ahlemeyer Gisela Ellenberger Annette Ruckes Christa Czekay	3:39.6	Bulgaria Svetla Slateva Stefka Yordanova Dshena Bineva Tonka Petrova	3:47.8
High jump	Milada Karbanová (TCH)	1.80	Vera Gavrilova (URS)	1.80	Cornelia Popescu (ROM)	1.78
Long jump	Heide Rosendahl (FRG)	6.64	Irena Szewińska (POL)	6.56	Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM)	6.53
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	19.70 CR	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	19.50	Antonina Ivanova (URS)	18.69

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	8	9	6	23
2	West Germany	4	4	2	10
3	East Germany	4	3	1	8
4	Poland	3	2	2	7
5	United Kingdom	2	1	1	4
6	Hungary	1	0	1	2
7	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
8	Romania	0	2	3	5
9	Sweden	0	1	1	2
10	France	0	1	0	1
11	Bulgaria	0	0	3	3
12	Italy	0	0	2	2
13	Austria	0	0	1	1

References

• Results - men at GBR Athletics
• Results - women at GBR Athletics
• Detailed results at Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite

External links

• EAA