1971 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 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 women's 1500 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 15 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Karin Burneleit East Germany
Silver	Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany
Bronze	Ellen Tittel West Germany

Results

Final

15 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Karin Burneleit	East Germany	4:09.62	WR
02 !	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:10.31
03 !	Ellen Tittel	West Germany	4:10.35	NR
4	Rita Ridley	United Kingdom	4:12.65	NR
5	Regine Kleinau	East Germany	4:13.71
6	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:13.93
7	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4:14.79
8	Joan Allison	United Kingdom	4:14.81
9	Sara Ligetkuti	Hungary	4:16.06	NR
10	Vasilena Amzina	Bulgaria	4:17.27
11	Sheila Carey	United Kingdom	4:17.54
12	Inger Knutsson	Sweden	4:21.45

Heats

13 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ellen Tittel	West Germany	4:14.2	Q
2	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:15.0	Q
3	Regine Kleinau	East Germany	4:15.3	Q
4	Sheila Carey	United Kingdom	4:16.2	Q
5	Zsuzsa Völgyi	Hungary	4:18.0	NR
6	Sinikka Tyynelä	Finland	4:22.0	NR
7	Maria-Belen Azpeitia	Spain	4:24.0	NR
8	Anneke de Lange	Netherlands	4:24.2
9	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	4:24.5
10	Angela Ramello	Italy	4:30.3

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karin Burneleit	East Germany	4:14.9	Q
2	Vasilena Amzina	Bulgaria	4:16.8	NR Q
3	Rita Ridley	United Kingdom	4:17.4	Q
4	Inger Knutsson	Sweden	4:18.2	Q
5	Magdolna Kulcsár	Hungary	4:21.2
6	Đurica Rajher	Yugoslavia	4:22.4
7	Joke van der Stelt	Netherlands	4:23.0
8	Catherine Bultez	France	4:23.1	NR
9	Gerda Klöpfer	West Germany	4:25.8

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:17.2	Q
2	Joan Allison	United Kingdom	4:17.2	Q
3	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4:17.4	Q
4	Sara Ligetkuti	Hungary	4:17.6	NR Q
5	Christa Merten	West Germany	4:18.2
6	Galina Kuzmina	Soviet Union	4:19.1
7	Els Gommers	Netherlands	4:19.3
8	Grete Andersen	Norway	4:23.0
9	Bronisława Doborzyńska	Poland	4:24.2
10	Zina Boniolo	Italy	4:31.4
11	Lena Sjöstedt	Sweden	4:34.0

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

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

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

1500 metres at the European Athletics Championships

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