1971 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles

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 100 metres hurdles at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.

Medalists

Gold	Karin Balzer East Germany
Silver	Anneliese Ehrhardt East Germany
Bronze	Teresa Sukniewicz Poland

Results

Final

13 August Wind: 0.0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Karin Balzer	East Germany	12.94	CR
	Anneliese Ehrhardt	East Germany	12.96
	Teresa Sukniewicz	Poland	13.21
4	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.34
5	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	13.35
6	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.46
7	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.47
8	Tatyana Poluboyarova	Soviet Union	13.69

Semi-finals

12 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: -0.8m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karin Balzer	East Germany	13.20	CR Q
2	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.31	Q
3	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.46	Q
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	13.47	Q
5	Margit Bach	West Germany	13.78
6	Jacqueline André	France	14.05
7	Sirkka Norrlund	Finland	15.55
	Ingunn Einarsdóttir	Iceland	DNS

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anneliese Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.11	CR Q
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.39	Q
3	Teresa Sukniewicz	Poland	13.40	Q
4	Tatyana Poluboyarova	Soviet Union	13.56	Q
5	Gun Olsson	Sweden	13.80
6	Jeanne Schoebel	France	14.11
7	Ileana Ongar	Italy	14.45
8	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	15.20

Heats

12 August

Heat 1

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.46	Q
2	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.56	Q
3	Gun Olsson	Sweden	14.04	Q
4	Sirkka Norrlund	Finland	14.05	Q
5	Jeanne Schoebel	France	14.30	Q
6	Sheila Garnett	United Kingdom	15.15

Heat 2

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karin Balzer	East Germany	13.30	CR Q
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.50	Q
3	Margit Bach	West Germany	13.62	Q
4	Ileana Ongar	Italy	14.51	Q
5	Ingunn Einarsdóttir	Iceland	15.92	Q

Heat 3

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anneliese Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.29	CR Q
2	Teresa Sukniewicz	Poland	13.38	Q
3	Tatyana Poluboyarova	Soviet Union	13.53	Q
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	13.54	Q
5	Jacqueline André	France	14.44	Q
6	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	15.09	q

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

• East Germany (2)
• Finland (1)
• France (2)
• Iceland (1)

• Ireland (1)
• Italy (1)
• Poland (3)

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

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