1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

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
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The men's 200 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union
Silver	Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany
Bronze	Jörg Pfeifer  East Germany

Results[]

Final[]

13 August Wind: 0.0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	20.31	CR
	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	20.71
	Jörg Pfeifer	East Germany	20.73
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	20.74
5	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.86
6	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.88
7	Gérard Fenouil	France	20.92
8		Soviet Union	21.23

Semi-finals[]

12 August

Semi-final 1[]

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	20.86	Q
2	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	20.93	Q
3		Soviet Union	21.04	Q
4	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	21.21	Q
5	Luis Sarría	Spain	21.35
6	Joseph Arame	France	21.43
7		Switzerland	21.53
8	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.54

Semi-final 2[]

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gérard Fenouil	France	21.15	Q
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.23	Q
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	21.25	Q
4	Jörg Pfeifer	East Germany	21.29	Q
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.37
6		France	21.40
7		Soviet Union	21.45
8	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.56

Heats[]

12 August

Heat 1[]

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	20.92	Q
2	Jörg Pfeifer	East Germany	21.35	Q
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.47	Q
4		Soviet Union	21.58	Q
5	José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	Spain	21.60
6	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.71
7	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	21.97

Heat 2[]

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Soviet Union	21.35	Q
2		France	21.40	Q
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	21.53	Q
4	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.61	Q
5		Belgium	21.68
6		Turkey	22.1

Heat 3[]

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gérard Fenouil	France	21.14	Q
2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.20	Q
3	Siegfried Schenke	East Germany	21.32	Q
4		Switzerland	21.47	Q
5	Karl Honz	West Germany	21.52
6	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	21.64
7		Yugoslavia	21.87
8		Romania	22.11

Heat 4[]

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	21.16	Q
2	Joseph Arame	France	21.44	Q
3	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.54	Q
4	Luis Sarría	Spain	21.56	Q
5		Denmark	21.69
6	Martin Reynolds	Great Britain	21.71
7		Sweden	21.91

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

References[]