1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres

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 5000 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 14 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Juha Väätäinen Finland
Silver	Jean Wadoux France
Bronze	Harald Norpoth West Germany

Results

Final

14 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Juha Väätäinen	Finland	13:32.48	CR NR
02 !	Jean Wadoux	France	13:33.56
03 !	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	13:33.79
4	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	13:34.88
5	Javier Álvarez	Spain	13:35.84
6	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	13:36.60
7	Lasse Virén	Finland	13:38.46
8	Bronisław Malinowski	Poland	13:39.33	NR
9	Frank Eisenberg	East Germany	13:41.07
10	Petras Simonelis	Soviet Union	13:42.78
11	Michael Baxter	United Kingdom	13:43.16
12	Rune Holmén	Finland	13:46.50
13	Allan Rushmer	United Kingdom	13:48.19
14	Bernd Dießner	East Germany	13:50.79
15	Vladimir Afonin	Soviet Union	DNF

Heats

12 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean Wadoux	France	13:44.2	Q
2	Javier Alvarez	Spain	13:44.4	Q
3	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	13:45.6	Q
4	Michael Baxter	United Kingdom	13:45.6	Q
5	Rune Holmén	Finland	13:46.4	Q
6	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	13:47.2	NR
7	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	14:39.0

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Juha Väätäinen	Finland	13:47.6	Q
2	Bernd Dießner	East Germany	13:49.8	Q
3	Bronisław Malinowski	Poland	13:50.0	Q
4	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	13:52.8	Q
5	Petras Simonelis	Soviet Union	13:54.4	Q
6	Alan Blinston	United Kingdom	14:01.2
7	Egbert Nijstadt	Netherlands	14:05.2
8	Wolfgang Falke	West Germany	14:05.6
9	Giuseppe Ardizzone	Italy	14:06.6
10	Jean-Yves Le Flohic	France	14:10.2
11	Donald Walsh	Ireland	14:12.6

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	13:50.4	Q
2	Frank Eisenberg	East Germany	13:52.4	Q
3	Allan Rushmer	United Kingdom	13:52.6	Q
4	Lasse Virén	Finland	13:53.2	Q
5	Vladimir Afonin	Soviet Union	13:53.6	Q
6	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	13:54.8
7	Werner Girke	West Germany	13:56.0
8	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	13:58.6
9	Michel Bernard	France	14:02.2
10	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

France (3)
Ireland (1)
Italy (2)
Netherlands (2)

Norway (1)
Poland (1)
Soviet Union (2)
Spain (1)

References

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

5000 metres at the European Athletics Championships

Men's 5000 m	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

Women's 3000 m	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994

Women's 5000 m	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

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