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1971 European Athletics Championships
Track events
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200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
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20 km walk	men
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Pole vault	men
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The men's 400 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 11, 12, and 13 August 1971.

Medalists

Gold	David Jenkins  Great Britain
Silver	Marcello Fiasconaro  Italy
Bronze	Jan Werner  Poland

Results

Final

13 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	David Jenkins	Great Britain	45.45	CR NR
	Marcello Fiasconaro	Italy	45.49	CR NR
	Jan Werner	Poland	45.57
4	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	45.74	NR
5	Thomas Jordan	West Germany	46.01
6	Hermann Köhler	West Germany	46.07
7	Aleksandr Bratchikov	Soviet Union	46.40
8	Klaus Hauke	East Germany	46.88

Semi-finals

12 August

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Thomas Jordan	West Germany	46.29	Q
2	Hermann Köhler	West Germany	46.44	Q
3	Marcello Fiasconaro	Italy	46.44	Q
4	Aleksandr Bratchikov	Soviet Union	46.66	Q
5	Andrzej Badeński	Poland	46.80
6	Per Rom	Norway	46.92
7	Miroslav Tulis	Czechoslovakia	47.05
8	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	48.4

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jan Werner	Poland	46.11	Q
2	David Jenkins	Great Britain	46.22	Q
3	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	46.25	Q
4	Klaus Hauke	East Germany	46.38	Q
5	Martin Jellinghaus	West Germany	46.78
6	Gilles Bertould	France	47.23
7	Fanahan McSweeney	Ireland	47.69
	Waldemar Korycki	Poland	DNS

Heats

11 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jan Werner	Poland	46.44	Q
2	Marcello Fiasconaro	Italy	46.49	Q
3	Gilles Bertould	France	46.81	Q
4	Miroslav Tulis	Czechoslovakia	46.83	Q
5	Semyon Kocher	Soviet Union	46.90

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Jenkins	Great Britain	46.66	Q
2	Andrzej Badeński	Poland	46.68	Q
3	Per Rom	Norway	46.73	Q
4	Hermann Köhler	West Germany	46.77	Q
5	Yevgeniy Borisenko	Soviet Union	47.12
6	Christian Nicolau	France	47.12
6	Miro Kocuvan	Yugoslavia	47.63
7	Anders Faager	Sweden	47.32

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Klaus Hauke	East Germany	46.84	Q
2	Martin Jellinghaus	West Germany	46.96	Q
3	Waldemar Korycki	Poland	47.10	Q
4	Michael Fredriksson	Sweden	47.44	Q
5	Giacomo Puosi	Italy	47.63
6	Hugues Roger	France	47.75
7	John Robertson	Great Britain	48.20

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Markku Kukkoaho	Finland	46.72	Q
2	Thomas Jordan	West Germany	46.98	Q
3	Aleksandr Bratchikov	Soviet Union	47.21	Q
4	Fanahan McSweeney	Ireland	47.34	Q
5	René Bervoets	Belgium	47.42
6	Martin Bilham	Great Britain	48.13

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

•  Belgium (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  East Germany (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (3)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (2)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (3)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Great Britain (3)
•  West Germany (3)
•  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
• 400 metres at the European Athletics Championships