1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

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

The men's shot put at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Hartmut Briesenick  East Germany
Silver	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg  East Germany
Bronze	Władysław Komar  Poland

Results

Final

13 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Hartmut Briesenick	East Germany	21.08	AR
02 !	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	East Germany	20.47
03 !	Władysław Komar	Poland	20.04
4	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.99
5	Valeriy Voykin	Soviet Union	19.81
6	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	19.61
7	Dieter Hoffmann	East Germany	19.38
8	Yves Brouzet	France	19.20
9	Pekka Ahnger	Finland	19.00
10	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	18.76
11	Ralf Reichenbach	West Germany	18.74
12	Hans-Dieter Möser	West Germany	18.51
13	Arnjolt Beer	France	18.46
14	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.27
9	Heinfried Birlenbach	West Germany	DNS

Qualification

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Władysław Komar	Poland	19.65	Q
2	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.56	Q
3	Hartmut Briesenick	East Germany	19.55	Q
4	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	19.19	Q
5	Pekka Ahnger	Finland	19.14	Q
6	Valeriy Voykin	Soviet Union	19.00	Q
7	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	19.00	Q
8	Yves Brouzet	France	18.96	Q
9	Ralf Reichenbach	West Germany	18.91	Q
10	Heinfried Birlenbach	West Germany	18.89	Q
11	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.83	Q
12	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	East Germany	18.81	Q
13	Dieter Hoffmann	East Germany	18.75	Q
14	Arnjolt Beer	France	18.75	Q
15	Hans-Dieter Möser	West Germany	18.72	Q
16	Geoff Capes	United Kingdom	18.54
17	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	18.50
18	Matti Yrjölä	Finland	18.49
19	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia	18.43
20	Anders Arrhenius	Sweden	17.84
21	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	17.83
22	Mihály Teveli	Hungary	16.82
23	Sándor Holub	Hungary	16.63

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References