1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Location	Helsinki
Dates	10 August (heats) 11 August (semifinals & final)
Competitors	29 from 18 nations
Winning time	10.27
Medalists
Valeriy Borzov    Soviet Union   Gerhard Wucherer    West Germany   Vasilios Papageorgopoulos    Greece
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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 100 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.^[1]

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

Results

Heats

10 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.57	Q
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.62	Q
3	Karl-Heinz Klotz	West Germany	10.75	Q
4	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.84	Q
5	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	10.95
6	Ole Egil Reitan	Norway	11.14
			Wind: -1.6 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.56	Q
2	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.75	Q
3	Eckart Brieger	West Germany	10.77	Q
4	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	10.82	Q
5	José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	Spain	10.87
6	Petr Utekal	Czechoslovakia	10.98
7	Alexandru Munteaunu	Romania	10.99
8	Ertün Erdöl	Turkey	11.22
			Wind: -1.3 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.33	CR, Q
2	Gilles Échevin	France	10.44	Q
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.44	Q
4	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.45	Q
5	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.74
6	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.77
7	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	10.78
8	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	11.00
			Wind: -0.2 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.46	Q
2	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.56	Q
3	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.69	Q
4	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.73	Q
5	Tadeusz Cuch	Poland	10.75
6	Søren Viggo Pedersen	Denmark	10.83
7	René Metz	France	11.27
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Semi-finals

11 August

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gilles Échevin	France	10.44	Q
2	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.51	Q
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.52	Q
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.54	Q
5	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	10.68
6	Karl-Heinz Klotz	West Germany	10.69
7	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.70
	Raimo Vilén	Finland	DNS
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.36	Q
2	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.44	Q
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.59	Q
4	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.60	Q
5	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.62
6	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.75
7	Eckart Brieger	West Germany	10.77
8	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.84
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Final

11 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.27	CR
	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.49
	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.56
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.63
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.66
6	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.66
7	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.67
8	Gilles Échevin	France	11.4
			Wind: -1.3 m/s

References

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