1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

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 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 15 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Jean-Paul Villain France
Silver	Dušan Moravčík Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Pavel Sysoyev Soviet Union

Results

Final

15 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:25.12	NR
02 !	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8:26.11	NR
03 !	Pavel Sysoyev	Soviet Union	8:26.42
4	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8:26.97
5	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8:30.94
6	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8:32.15
7	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8:33.05
8	Józef Rębacz	Poland	8:35.12
9	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8:38.96
10	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	8:39.58
11	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8:55.34
12	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	DNF

Heats

13 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pavel Sysoyev	Soviet Union	8:29.65	Q
2	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	8:29.75	NR Q
3	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8:30.87	Q
4	Józef Rębacz	Poland	8:33.36	Q
5	Tapio Kantanen	Finland	8:35.88
6	Umberto Risi	Italy	8:37.15
7	Spyros Kontossoros	Greece	8:38.24	NR
8	Paul Thys	Belgium	8:41.11
9	Willi Wagner	West Germany	8:44.50
10	Stalle Engen	Norway	8:44.68
11	Gérard Delalandre	France	8:54.70
12	Ron McAndrew	United Kingdom	9:02.11

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8:32.81	Q
2	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8:33.34	Q
3	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:34.17	Q
4	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8:34.28	Q
5	Arne Risa	Norway	8:35.62
6	Henryk Lesiuk	Poland	8:40.34
7	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8:44.34
8	Hans-Dieter Schulten	West Germany	8:46.98
9	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	8:54.83
10	Francesco Valente	Italy	8:57.93
11	Hans Menet	Switzerland	8:58.27

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	8:28.32	NR Q
2	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8:28.96	Q
3	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8:30.30	Q
4	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8:31.85	Q
5	Sverre Sørnes	Norway	8:35.24
6	Andy Holden	United Kingdom	8:36.11
7	Wigmar Petersen	Denmark	8:36.67	NR
8	Gérard Buchheit	France	8:40.07
9	Mikhail Zhelev	Bulgaria	8:50.64
10	Milan Tomić	Yugoslavia	8:53.31

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

France (3)
Greece (1)
Italy (2)
Norway (3)
Poland (3)

Portugal (1)
Romania (1)
Soviet Union (3)
Sweden (1)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014

3000 metres steeplechase at the European Athletics Championships

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