1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships
International athletics championship event
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The 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 13 and 14 March 1971 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
The track used for the championships was 200 metres long.[1]
Medal summary
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 metres |
 Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 6.6a =WB |  Jobst Hirscht (FRG) | 6.7a |  Manfred Kokot (GDR) | 6.8a |
| 400 metres |
 Andrzej Badeński (POL) | 46.8 =AR | 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 | Volodymyr 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 metres 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 |  BulgariaKrestyu Khristov Alexander Yanev Alexander Popov Yordan Todorov | 3:15.6 |
| 4 × 800 metres relay |
Soviet Union Valeriy Taratynov Stanislav Meshcherskich Aleksey 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 |
| High jump |
 István Major (HUN) | 2.17 | Jüri Tarmak (URS) | 2.17 | Endre Kelemen (HUN) | 2.17 |
| Pole vault |
Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.40 WR |  Kjell Isaksson (SWE) | 5.35 | Yuriy Isakov (URS) | 5.30 |
| 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
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 23 |
| 2 | West Germany (FRG) | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 |  France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 |  Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | 23 | 23 | 23 | 69 | |
Participating nations
Austria (5)
Belgium (6)
Bulgaria (33)
Czechoslovakia (15)
Denmark (2)
East Germany (13)
Finland (5)
France (17)
Great Britain (11)
Greece (6)
Hungary (12)
Ireland (2)
Italy (9)
Netherlands (9)
Poland (26)
Romania (18)
Soviet Union (49)
Spain (12)
Sweden (10)
Switzerland (5)
Turkey (4)
West Germany (42)
Yugoslavia (5)
