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1971 European Athletics Championships
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The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 15 August 1971.

Medalists

Gold	Jean-Paul Villain  France
Silver	Dušan Moravčík  Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Pavel Sysoev Yakovlevich  Soviet Union

Results

Final

15 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:25.12	NR
	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8:26.11	NR
	Pavel Sysoyev	Soviet Union	8:26.42
4	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8:26.97
5	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8:30.94
6	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8:32.15
7	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8:33.05
8	Józef Rębacz	Poland	8:35.12
9	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8:38.96
10	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	8:39.58
11	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8:55.34
	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	DNF

Heats

13 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pavel Sysoyev	Soviet Union	8:29.65	Q
2	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	8:29.75	NR Q
3	Georgi Tikhov	Bulgaria	8:30.87	Q
4	Józef Rębacz	Poland	8:33.36	Q
5	Tapio Kantanen	Finland	8:35.88
6	Umberto Risi	Italy	8:37.15
7	Spyros Kontossoros	Greece	8:38.24	NR
8	Paul Thys	Belgium	8:41.11
9	Willi Wagner	West Germany	8:44.50
10	Ståle Engen	Norway	8:44.68
11	Gérard Delalandre	France	8:54.70
12	Ron McAndrew	Great Britain	9:02.11

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8:32.81	Q
2	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8:33.34	Q
3	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:34.17	Q
4	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8:34.28	Q
5	Arne Risa	Norway	8:35.62
6	Henryk Lesiuk	Poland	8:40.34
7	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8:44.34
8	Hans-Dieter Schulten	West Germany	8:46.98
9	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	8:54.83
10	Francesco Valente	Italy	8:57.93
11	Hans Menet	Switzerland	8:58.27

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	8:28.32	NR Q
2	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8:28.96	Q
3	Vladimiras Dudinas	Soviet Union	8:30.30	Q
4	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8:31.85	Q
5	Sverre Sørnes	Norway	8:35.24
6	Andy Holden	Great Britain	8:36.11
7	Wigmar Petersen	Denmark	8:36.67	NR
8	Gérard Buchheit	France	8:40.07
9	Mikhail Zhelev	Bulgaria	8:50.64
10	Milan Tomić	Yugoslavia	8:53.31

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

•  Belgium (1)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (3)
•  Greece (1)
•  Italy (2)
•  Norway (3)
•  Poland (3)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Sweden (1)
•   Switzerland (2)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  West Germany (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

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

• Events at the 1971 European Athletics Championships
• Steeplechase at the European Athletics Championships