1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 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 100 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.

Medalists

Gold	Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union
Silver	Gerhard Wucherer West Germany
Bronze	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos Greece

Results

Final

11 August Wind: -1.3m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.27	CR
	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.49
	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.56
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.63
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.66
6	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.66
7	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.67
8	Gilles Échevin	France	11.4

Semi-finals

11 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gilles Échevin	France	10.44	Q
2	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.51	Q
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.52	Q
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.54	Q
5	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	10.68
6	Karl-Heinz Klotz	West Germany	10.69
7	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.70
	Raimo Vilén	Finland	DNS

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.36	Q
2	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.44	Q
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.59	Q
4	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.60	Q
5	Brian Green	United Kingdom	10.62
6	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.75
7	Eckart Brieger	West Germany	10.77
8	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.84

Heats

10 August

Heat 1

Wind: -1.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.57	Q
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.62	Q
3	Karl-Heinz Klotz	West Germany	10.75	Q
4	Raimo Vilén	Finland	10.84	Q
5	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	10.95
6	Ole Egil Reitan	Norway	11.14

Heat 2

Wind: -1.3m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.56	Q
2	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.75	Q
3	Eckart Brieger	West Germany	10.77	Q
4	Norberto Oliosi	Italy	10.82	Q
5	José Luis Sánchez	Spain	10.87
6	Petr Utekal	Czechoslovakia	10.98
7	Alexandru Munteaunu	Romania	10.99
8	Ertün Erdöl	Turkey	11.22

Heat 3

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.33	CR Q
2	Gilles Échevin	France	10.44	Q
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.44	Q
4	Brian Green	United Kingdom	10.45	Q
5	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.74
6	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.77
7	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	10.78
8	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	11.00

Heat 4

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.46	Q
2	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	10.56	Q
3	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.69	Q
4	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.73	Q
5	Tadeusz Cuch	Poland	10.75
6	Søren Viggo Pedersen	Denmark	10.83
7	René Metz	France	11.27

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

• Czechoslovakia (3)
• Denmark (1)
• East Germany (3)
• Finland (1)
• France (3)

• Greece (1)
• Iceland (1)
• Italy (1)
• Norway (1)
• Poland (3)

• Romania (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (1)
• Sweden (1)

• Switzerland (1)
• Turkey (1)
• United Kingdom (1)
• West Germany (3)