1971 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 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 400 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10, 11, and 12 August 1971.[1]

Medalists

Gold Helga Seidler
 East Germany
Silver Inge Bödding
 West Germany
Bronze Ingelore Lohse
 East Germany

Results

Final

12 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Helga Seidler  East Germany 52.14 NR
2nd Inge Bödding  West Germany 52.90
3rd Ingelore Lohse  East Germany 52.93
4 Maria Sykora  Austria 53.01
5 Natalya Chistyakova  Soviet Union 53.19
6 Marika Eklund  Finland 53.35
7 Colette Besson  France 53.70
8 Rita Kühne  East Germany 53.91

Semi-finals

11 August

Semi-final 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Helga Seidler  East Germany 52.77 Q
2 Colette Besson  France 52.88 Q
3 Marika Eklund  Finland 53.11 Q
4 Natalya Chistyakova  Soviet Union 53.16 Q
5 Karoline Käfer  Austria 53.70
6 Marianne Burggraaf  Netherlands 53.77
7 Karin Lundgren  Sweden 53.95
8 Anette Rückes  West Germany 54.36

Semi-final 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Ingelore Lohse  East Germany 52.99 Q
2 Inge Bödding  West Germany 53.16 Q
3 Maria Sykora  Austria 53.27 Q
4 Rita Kühne  East Germany 53.75 Q
5 Mona-Lisa Strandvall  Finland 54.03
6 Christel Frese  West Germany 54.11
7 Jannette Roscoe  United Kingdom 54.59
8 Elisabeth Randerz  Sweden 54.88

Heats

10 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Rita Kühne  East Germany 53.17 Q
2 Colette Besson  France 53.18 Q
3 Anette Rückes  West Germany 53.56 Q
4 Karin Lundgren  Sweden 53.77 Q
5 Svetla Zlateva  Bulgaria 54.03
6 Mariana Suman  Romania 54.33
7 Bożena Zientarska  Poland 55.04

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Helga Seidler  East Germany 52.70 Q
2 Inge Bödding  West Germany 53.01 Q
3 Natalya Chistyakova  Soviet Union 53.18 Q
4 Marianne Burggraaf  Netherlands 53.57 Q
5 Bernadette Martin  France 53.72
6 Danuta Piecyk  Poland 54.30
7 Stefka Yordanova  Bulgaria 55.14

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Marika Eklund  Finland 54.35 Q
2 Christel Frese  West Germany 54.42 Q
3 Karoline Käfer  Austria 54.48 Q
4 Elisabeth Randerz  Sweden 54.50 Q
5 Krystyna Hryniewicka  Poland 54.67
6 Lyubov Aksenova  Soviet Union 54.91
7 Josefina Salgado  Spain 56.27

Heat 4

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Ingelore Lohse  East Germany 53.34 Q
2 Maria Sykora  Austria 53.49 Q
3 Mona-Lisa Strandvall  Finland 53.69 Q
4 Jannette Roscoe  United Kingdom 53.95 Q
5 Nadezhda Kolesnikova  Soviet Union 54.35
6 Eva-Charlotte Malmström  Sweden 54.65
7 Ingunn Einarsdóttir  Iceland 1:00.33

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

References

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