1971 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 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 women's 100 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Renate Stecher  East Germany
Silver	Ingrid Mickler  West Germany
Bronze	Elfgard Schittenhelm  West Germany

Results[]

Final[]

11 August Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Renate Stecher	East Germany	11.35	CR
	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	11.46
	Elfgard Schittenhelm	West Germany	11.51
4	Inge Helten	West Germany	11.55
5	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	11.59
6	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.63
7	Petra Vogt	East Germany	11.71
8	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.75

Semi-finals[]

11 August

Semi-final 1[]

Wind: -1.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	11.53	Q
2	Elfgard Schittenhelm	West Germany	11.56	Q
3	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.75	Q
4	Petra Vogt	East Germany	11.78	Q
5	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.92
6	Lyudmila Zharkova	Soviet Union	11.94
7	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	12.00
	Sylviane Telliez	France	DNS

Semi-final 2[]

Wind: 0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Renate Stecher	East Germany	11.50	Q
2	Inge Helten	West Germany	11.61	Q
3	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	11.68	Q
4	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.70	Q
5	Monika Meyer	East Germany	11.78
6	Helena Fliśnik	Poland	11.97
7	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	12.05
	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	DNS

Heats[]

10 August

Heat 1[]

Wind: -1.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	11.84	Q
2	Anita Neil	Great Britain	11.85	Q
3	Monika Meyer	East Germany	11.86	Q
4	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.88	Q
5	Margit Nemesházi	Hungary	12.10

Heat 2[]

Wind: -1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Elfgard Schittenhelm	West Germany	11.53	Q
2	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	11.68	Q
3	Petra Vogt	East Germany	11.73	Q
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	11.79	Q
5		Great Britain	11.86

Heat 3[]

Wind: -0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	11.56	Q
2	Lyudmila Zharkova	Soviet Union	11.82	Q
3	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.90	Q
4	Danuta Jędrejek	Poland	11.92	Q
5		Austria	11.99
6	Val Peat	Great Britain	12.07

Heat 4[]

Wind: -0.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Renate Stecher	East Germany	11.42	CR Q
2	Inge Helten	West Germany	11.66	Q
3	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.91	Q
4	Helena Fliśnik	Poland	11.97	Q

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

References[]