1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships

1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	13–14 March 1971
Host city	Sofia; Bulgaria
Venue	Festivalna
Events	23
Participation	317 athletes from ; 23 nations
Records set	3 WR, 7 CR
	← 1970 Vienna 1972 Grenoble → ;

The 2nd 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	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	Bulgaria Krestyu 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

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 WR	Lyudmila Bragina (URS)	4:17.8	Tamara Pangelova (URS)	4:18.1
60 metres hurdles	Karin Balzer (GDR)	8.1a WR	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	8.1a	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	8.3a
4 × 200 metres 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 metres relay	Soviet Union Lyubov Finogenova Galina Kamardina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Aksyonova	3:36.6	West Germany Gisela Ahlemeyer Gisela Ellenberger Annette Rückes Christa Czekay	3:39.6	Bulgaria Svetla Slateva Stefka Yordanova Dzhena 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 (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 nations)		23	23	23	69