1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.[1]

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

Medalists

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Gold Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Luděk Bohman
  Czechoslovakia
Silver Gerard Gramse
Tadeusz Cuch
Zenon Nowosz
Marian Dudziak
  Poland
Bronze Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni
  Italy

Results

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Final

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15 August

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
    Czechoslovakia Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Luděk Bohman
39.32 NR
    Poland Gerard Gramse
Tadeusz Cuch
Zenon Nowosz
Marian Dudziak
39.72
    Italy Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni
39.78
4   Great Britain Brian Green
Martin Reynolds
Don Halliday
Les Piggot
39.78
5   Soviet Union Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Aleksandr Zhidkikh
Aleksandr Lebedev
Aleksey Chebykin
40.00
  West Germany Manfred Ommer
Karl-Heinz Klotz
Gerhard Wucherer
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
DNF
  East Germany Hans-Jürgen Bombach
Jörg Pfeifer
Hermann Burde
Hans-Joachim Zenk
DQ
  France Dominique Chauvelot
Patrick Bourbeillon
Gérard Fenouil
Jean-Pierre Grès
DQ

Heats

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14 August

Heat 1

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1   West Germany Manfred Ommer
Karl-Heinz Klotz
Gerhard Wucherer
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
39.55 Q
2   Great Britain Brian Green
Martin Reynolds
Don Halliday
Les Piggot
39.77 Q
3   Poland Gerard Gramse
Tadeusz Cuch
Zenon Nowosz
Marian Dudziak
39.83 Q
4   Italy Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni
39.95 Q
5   Sweden Curt Johansson
Thorsten Johansson
Bo Söderberg
Anders Faager
40.67

Heat 2

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1   France Dominique Chauvelot
Patrick Bourbeillon
Gérard Fenouil
Jean-Pierre Grès
39.40 Q
2   East Germany Hans-Jürgen Bombach
Jörg Pfeifer
Hermann Burde
Hans-Joachim Zenk
39.42 Q
3   Czechoslovakia Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Luděk Bohman
39.77 Q
4   Soviet Union Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Aleksandr Zhidkikh
Aleksandr Lebedev
Aleksey Chebykin
39.78 Q
  Yugoslavia Hrvoje Vincijanovic
Ivica Karasi
Miro Kocuvan
Predrag Križan
DNF

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References

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