1971 European Championships in Athletics
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The 10th European Athletics Championships were held from 10 August to 15 August 1971 in the Olympic Stadium
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Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978
100 metres Valeriy Borzov
10.26 Gerhard Wucherer
Gerhard Wucherer
Gerhard Wucherer is a German former athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Jobst Hirscht, Karlheinz Klotz and Klaus Ehl.-References:...


10.48 Vasilis Papageorgopoulos
10.56
200 metres Valeriy Borzov
20.30 Franz-Peter Hofmeister
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
Franz-Peter Hofmeister was a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for West Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Lothar Krieg, Harald Schmid and Bernd...


20.71 Jörg Pfeifer
Jörg Pfeifer
Jörg Pfeifer was an East German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Manfred Kokot, Klaus-Dieter Kurrat and Alexander...


20.72
400 metres David Jenkins
David Jenkins (athlete)
David Wilkinson Jenkins , is an American figure skater. He won the men's gold medal for figure skating during the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley...


45.45 Marcello Fiasconaro
Marcello Fiasconaro
Marcello Luigi Fiasconaro is an Italian-South African athlete, who in 1973 set a world record in the 800 m.-Early life:...


45.49 Jan Werner
Jan Werner (athlete)
Jan Werner was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.He was born in Brzeziny and represented the club AZS Warszawa. At the 1966 European Championships he finished fourth in the 200 metres and won the 4 x 400 metres relay together with Edmund Borowski, Stanislaw Gredzinski and...


45.56
800 metres Yevgeniy Arzhanov
Yevgeniy Arzhanov
Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Arzhanov is a former middle distance runner who won a silver medal over 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Arzhanov trained at VSS Avanhard and later at Dynamo in Kiev....


1:45.60 Dieter Fromm
Dieter Fromm
Dieter Fromm is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres...


1:46.00 Andy Carter
1:46.20
1500 metres Francesco Arese
Francesco Arese
Francesco Arese is an Italian middle-distance runner, competing mainly at 1500 m. Arese won the 1500 meters final at the 1971 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland....


3:38.40 Henryk Szordykowski
Henryk Szordykowski
Henryk Jan Szordykowski is a retired Polish runner who specialized in the 800 metres and 1500 metres.He was born in Iłowo and represented the club Wawelu Kraków...


3:38.70 Brendan Foster
Brendan Foster
Brendan Foster CBE is a British former distance runner, entrepreneur and the founder of the Great North Run. He won the Bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics...


3:39.20
5000 metres Juha Väätäinen
Juha Väätäinen
Juha Väätäinen is a former Finnish athlete. He is the winner of the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter gold medals at the 1971 European Championships held in Helsinki. He was the eldest of the successful Finnish runners Lasse Virén, Pekka Vasala, Tapio Kantanen, Martti Vainio, and Kaarlo Maaninka who...


13:32.60 Jean Wadoux
13:33.60 Harald Norpoth
Harald Norpoth
Harald Norpoth is a West German former middle and long distance runner. Born in Münster, he won the silver medal over 5000m at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a member of the United Team of Germany. He had already competed in the 1962 European Athletics Championships, where he had fallen and...


13:34.57
10,000 metres Juha Väätäinen
Juha Väätäinen
Juha Väätäinen is a former Finnish athlete. He is the winner of the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter gold medals at the 1971 European Championships held in Helsinki. He was the eldest of the successful Finnish runners Lasse Virén, Pekka Vasala, Tapio Kantanen, Martti Vainio, and Kaarlo Maaninka who...


27:52.80 Jürgen Haase
27:53.40 Rashid Sharafetdinov
27:56.40
Marathon Karel Lismont
Karel Lismont
Karel Lismont is a former Belgian athlete, who competed mostly in the marathon. He won two Olympic medals: a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and a bronze at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the same event. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971, he won a gold...


2:13:09 Trevor Wright
2:13:59 Ron Hill
Ron Hill
Ronald "Ron" Hill, MBE, BSc, PhD , is a noted runner and founder of Ron Hill and Hilly Clothing Company. Hill was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, but never laid claim to the marathon world...


2:14:34
20 kilometres walk Nikolay Smaga
Nikolay Smaga
Nikolay Yakovlevich Smaga was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 20 kilometer walk...


1:27:20 Gerhard Sperling
Gerhard Sperling
Gerhard Sperling is a former East German race walker.Sperling represented the sports club TSC Berlin and became East German champion over 20 km in 1966, 1968, 1969 and 1971.-Achievements:-References:...


1:27:29 Paul Nihill
Paul Nihill
Vincent Paul Nihill is a British athlete, who competed in the 20 and 50 kilometre walks.He was born in Colchester....


1:27:34
50 kilometres walk Veniamin Soldatenko
Veniamin Soldatenko
Veniamin Vasilievich Soldatenko is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Alma-Ata...


4:02:22 Christoph Höhne
Christoph Höhne
Christoph Höhne is a retired racewalker of the SV Dynamo. He competed at 50km for East Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. He was trained by Max Weber....


4:04:45 Peter Selzer
Peter Selzer
Peter Selzer is a former East German race walker.-Achievements:-References:...


4:06:11
110 metres hurdles Frank Siebeck
Frank Siebeck
Frank Siebeck is a retired hurdler who represented East Germany. He competed for SC Leipzig.-Achievements:-References:...


14.00 Alan Pascoe
Alan Pascoe
Alan Peter Pascoe, MBE was a British athlete who gained success in hurdles. After his athletics career, he has been successful in events marketing and consulting.-Early life and education:...


14.09 Lubomír Nádeníček
14.30
400 metres hurdles Jean-Claude Nallet
49.20 Christian Rudolph
Christian Rudolph
Christian Rudolph may refer to:* Christian Rudolph, retired East German athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles* Christian Rudolph , German professional three-cushion billiards player...


49.30 Dimitri Stukalov
50.00
3000 metres steeplechase Jean-Paul Villain
8:25.20 Dušan Moravčík
8:26.20 Pavel Sysoyev
8:26.40
4x100 metres relay Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Ludvík Bohman 
 Czechoslovakia
39.30 Gerard Gramse
Gerard Gramse
Gerard Gramse was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.He was born in Mrocza and represented the club AZS Poznań. At the 1971 European Championships he won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Marian Dudziak, Tadeusz Cuch and Zenon Nowosz...


Tadeusz Cuch
Tadeusz Cuch
Tadeusz Cuch was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.He was born in Stary Bazanów and represented the club Legia Warszawa...


Zenon Nowosz
Zenon Nowosz
Zenon Nowosz is a Polish sprinter who participated in world athletics for Poland in the late 1960s and 1970s. He competed in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres....


Marian Dudziak
Marian Dudziak
Marian Andrzej Dudziak was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.He was born in Wielichowo and represented the clubs Orkan Poznań and Olimpia Poznań. At the 1964 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay with teammates Andrzej Zieliński, Wiesław Maniak and...


 Poland
39.70 Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pietro Mennea
Pietro Paolo Mennea is an Italian former sprinter and politician, who was the 1980 Moscow Olympic 200 meter Champion, and also held the 200 m world record for 17 years.-Biography:...


Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni 
 Italy
39.80
4x400 metres relay Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske, née Pfau is a former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He represented West Germany.-Achievements:-References:...


Thomas Jordan
Thomas Jordan (athlete)
Thomas Michael Jordan is a former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He represented West Germany and competed for the club Bayer 04 Leverkusen....


Martin Jellinghaus
Martin Jellinghaus
Martin Jellinghaus is a West German former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres....


Hermann Köhler
Hermann Köhler
Hermann Köhler is a former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He represented West Germany and competed for the club TV Wattenscheid.-Achievements:-References:...

 
 West Germany
3:02.90 Andrzej Badeński
Andrzej Badenski
Andrzej Badenski was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal in 400 metres run at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and multiple relay medals. He became European Indoor Champion in the 400 metres twice, in 1968 and in 1971.-Career:He was born in Warszawa and represented...


Jan Balachowski
Jan Balachowski
Jan Balachowski is a retired Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He was born in Kraków and represented the club Cracovia Kraków...


Waldemar Korycki
Waldemar Korycki
Waldemar Korycki is a retired Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He was a successful relay runner. At the 1968 European Indoor Games he won a gold medal in the short relay and a silver medal in the medley relay...


Jan Werner
Jan Werner (athlete)
Jan Werner was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.He was born in Brzeziny and represented the club AZS Warszawa. At the 1966 European Championships he finished fourth in the 200 metres and won the 4 x 400 metres relay together with Edmund Borowski, Stanislaw Gredzinski and...


 Poland
3:03.60 Lorenzo Cellerino
Giacomo Puosi
Sergio Bello
Marcello Fiasconaro
Marcello Fiasconaro
Marcello Luigi Fiasconaro is an Italian-South African athlete, who in 1973 set a world record in the 800 m.-Early life:...


 Italy
3:04.60

Field

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978
High jump Kęstutis Šapka
Kestutis Šapka
Kęstutis Šapka is a retired Lithuanian high jumper who represented the Soviet Union. He trained at Dynamo in Vilnius. Šapka was inspired to become a professional high jumper after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico and became one of the early adopters of Fosbury Flop. He retired due to recurring...


2.20 Csaba Dosa
 Romania
2.20 Rustam Akhmetov
Rustam Akhmetov
Rustam Akhmetov is a retired high jumper who represented the Soviet Union.He was born in Zhytomyr, Ukrainian SSR, and was affiliated with the VSS Avangard in Berdyansk....


2.20
Long jump Max Klauß
Max Klauß
Max Klauß is a retired East German long jumper.He competed for the sports clubs SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and SC Einheit Dresden during his active career.-Achievements:-References:...


7.92 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Igor Aramovich Ter-Ovanesyan is a Ukrainian athlete of Armenian ethnicity, and Olympic medalist in the long jump for the USSR.Ter-Ovanesyan trained at Burevestnik, first in Kiev, later in Lviv and then in Moscow. He participated in the Olympic Games five times and twice won a bronze medal...


7.91 Stanisław Szudrowicz
7.87
Pole vault Wolfgang Nordwig
Wolfgang Nordwig
Wolfgang Nordwig is a former East German pole vaulter who won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics with a clearance of 5.50 m . He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony.-References:...


5.35 Kjell Isaksson
Kjell Isaksson
Kjell Gunnar Isaksson is a retired pole vaulter from Sweden, who broke the world record several times in 1972. Initially he broke the record set by Christos Papanikolaou of Greece and San Jose State University two years earlier, by jumping 5.51 metres in Austin, Texas--the second man to clear 18...


5.30 Renato Dionisi
5.30
Triple jump Jörg Drehmel
Jörg Drehmel
Jörg Drehmel was an East German athlete, who, competing for the GDR, won the silver medal in the triple jump in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany...


17.16 Viktor Saneyev
Viktor Saneyev
Viktor Saneyev is a retired triple jumper, who competed internationally for the USSR and won four Olympic medals; three golds and one silver . He was born in Sukhumi, Georgian SSR. He dominated the event during the late 1960s and 1970s...


17.10 Carol Corbu
Carol Corbu
Carol Corbu is a retired Romanian triple jumper. He won the 1973 European Indoor Championships as well as two medals at the European Championships outdoor....


16.87
Javelin throw Jānis Lūsis
Janis Lusis
Jānis Lūsis is a Latvian athlete who competed in javelin throw.Lūsis trained at Daugava Voluntary Sports Society and later at Armed Forces sports society...


90.68 Jānis Doniņš
85.30 Wolfgang Hanisch
Wolfgang Hanisch
Wolfgang Hanisch was an East German athlete who mainly competed in the javelin throw....


84.22
Discus throw Ludvík Daněk
Ludvík Danek
Ludvík Daněk was a Czechoslovak discus thrower, who won gold in Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics with a throw of 64.40 m ....


63.90 Lothar Milde
Lothar Milde
Lothar Milde was an East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.He competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the discus throw where he won the silver medal....


61.62 Géza Fejér
61.54
Shot put Hartmut Briesenick
Hartmut Briesenick
Hartmut Briesenick was an East German athlete who mainly competed in the men's shot put event....


21.08 Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg
Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg
Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg is a retired East German shot putter.He competed for the sports club SC Dynamo Berlin during his active career.-Achievements:-References:...


20.47 Władysław Komar
20.04
Hammer throw Uwe Beyer
Uwe Beyer
Uwe Beyer was a West German hammer thrower.Beyer was born in Timmendorf near Kiel and represented the sports clubs Holstein Kiel, Bayer Leverkusen and USC Mainz....


72.36 Reinhard Theimer
Reinhard Theimer
Reinhard Theimer is a retired East German hammer thrower. He competed for the sports club TSC Berlin during his active career.-Achievements:-References:...


71.80 Anatoliy Bondarchuk
71.40
Decathlon Joachim Kirst
Joachim Kirst
Joachim Kirst is a retired East German decathlete.He competed for the sports club ASK Potsdam during his active career.-Achievements:-References:...


8196 Lennart Hedmark
Lennart Hedmark
Lennart Per-Olav Hedmark is a retired Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the decathlon. He represented his country three times at the Summer Olympics ....


8038 Hans-Joachim Walde
Hans-Joachim Walde
Hans-Joachim Walde is a West German former track and field athlete who competed mainly in the decathlon.Walde competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo in the decathlon, where he won the bronze medal. He returned for the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico...


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Track

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978
100 metres Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher is a German athlete and a triple Olympic champion.Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon...


11.40 Ingrid Mickler
Ingrid Becker
Ingrid Mickler-Becker is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion. Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists....


11.50 Elfgard Schittenhelm
Elfgard Schittenhelm
Elfgard Sibylle Schittenhelm, née Weismann is a retired West German sprinter.She competed for SpVgg Holzgerlingen and later OSC Berlin.-Achievements:-References:...


11.50
200 metres Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher is a German athlete and a triple Olympic champion.Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon...


22.70 Györgyi Balogh
23.20 Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewinska
Irena Szewińska is a retired Polish Jewish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events....


23.30
400 metres Helga Seidler
Helga Seidler
Helga Seidler is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres event....


52.10 Inge Bödding
Inge Bödding
Inge Bödding, née Eckhoff is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich where she won the bronze medal in the women's 4 x 400 metres with her teammates Anette Rückes, Hildegard Falck and Rita...


52.90 Ingelore Lohse
52.90
800 metres Vera Nikolić
Vera Nikolic
Vera Nikolić is a former Serbian track and field athlete and coach...


2:00.00 Pat Lowe
2:01.70 Rosemary Stirling
2:02.10
1500 metres Karin Burneleit
Karin Krebs
Karin Krebs, née Burneleit is a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres....


4:09.60 Gunhild Hoffmeister
Gunhild Hoffmeister
Gunhild Hoffmeister is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres.At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich where she won the silver medal in the 1500 metres. She then won her second medal at the games in the 800m by finishing third...


4:10.30 Ellen Tittel
Ellen Wellmann
Ellen Wellmann is a German track and field athlete who was born as Ellen Tittel. She ran the 1500 m in the 1970s. In the 1980s she moved into more long distance runs, including the 3000 m, 5000 m, and 10,000 m. In 1975 she married Paul-Heinz Wellmann, who won a bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics...


4:10.40
100 metres hurdles Karin Balzer
Karin Balzer
Karin Balzer is a former East German hurdler, one of the best in high hurdles event during the 1960s.She was born Karin Richert in Magdeburg, and competed in several track and field events when she was young...


12.94 Annelie Ehrhardt
Annelie Ehrhardt
Annelie Ehrhardt, is a German athlete who competed in the hurdling.She was born in Ohrsleben.Ehrhardt competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the inaugural women’s 100 metre hurdles where she won the gold medal...


13.00 Teresa Sukniewicz
13.20
4x100 metres relay Elfgard Schittenhelm
Elfgard Schittenhelm
Elfgard Sibylle Schittenhelm, née Weismann is a retired West German sprinter.She competed for SpVgg Holzgerlingen and later OSC Berlin.-Achievements:-References:...


Inge Helten
Inge Helten
Ingeborg Helten is a former athlete from West Germany, who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She was born in Westum, Sinzig, Rhineland-Palatinate....


Annegret Irrgang
Annegret Richter
Annegret Richter is a German athlete and the 1976 Olympic 100 m champion....


Ingrid Mickler
Ingrid Becker
Ingrid Mickler-Becker is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion. Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists....


 West Germany
43.30 Karin Balzer
Karin Balzer
Karin Balzer is a former East German hurdler, one of the best in high hurdles event during the 1960s.She was born Karin Richert in Magdeburg, and competed in several track and field events when she was young...


Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher is a German athlete and a triple Olympic champion.Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon...


Petra Vogt
Petra Kandarr
Petra Kandarr, née Vogt is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres....


Ellen Stropahl
Ellen Streidt
Ellen Streidt, née Stropahl is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres....


 German Democratic Republic
43.60 Lyudmila Zharkova
Galina Bukharina
Galina Bukharina
Galina Petrovna Bukharina is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.Bukharina trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. She competed for Soviet Union in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her...


Marina Sidorova
Nadezhda Besfamilnaya
Nadezhda Besfamilnaya
Nadezhda Besfamilnaya is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.Besfamilnaya trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow...


 Soviet Union
44.50
4x400 metres relay Rita Kühne
Rita Kühne
Rita Kuhne is a former East German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates Dagmar Käsling, Helga Seidler and 400m gold medalist Monika...


Ingelore Lohse
Helga Seidler
Helga Seidler
Helga Seidler is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres event....


Monika Zehrt
Monika Zehrt
Monika Zehrt is a former sprint athlete, who competed for East Germany.She won two gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, in 400 m and 4x400 m relay....


 German Democratic Republic
3:29.30 Annette Rückes
Christel Frese
Christel Frese
Christel Frese is a German former athlete who was successful as a 400-meter runner in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She competed for the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1972 Olympics. She won one silver and one bronze medal at European Championships with the 4x400-meter relay of the Federal...


Hildegard Falck
Hildegard Falck
Hildegard Falck, née Janze is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres.She competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich in the 800 m she won the gold medal...


Inge Bödding
Inge Bödding
Inge Bödding, née Eckhoff is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich where she won the bronze medal in the women's 4 x 400 metres with her teammates Anette Rückes, Hildegard Falck and Rita...


 West Germany
3:33.00 Raissa Nikaronova
Vera Popkova
Vera Popkova
Vera Ivanovna Popkova was a Soviet track and field athlete who competed in the sprints. She had personal bests of 11.3 seconds for the 100 metres and 23.0 seconds for the 200 metres...


Nadezhda Kolesnikova
Nadezhda Ilyina
Nadezhda Ilyina is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.Ilyina trained at Dynamo in Moscow. She competed for Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Inta Kļimoviča, Lyudmila...


Nadezhda Chistyakova
 Soviet Union
3:34.10

Field

1966 |1969 |1971 |1974 |1978
High jump Ilona Gusenbauer
Ilona Gusenbauer
Ilona Gusenbauer is a former Austrian athlete, who mainly competed in the high jump.She was born in Gummersbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, West Germany....


1.87 Cornelia Popescu
 Romania
1.85 Barbara Inkpen
Barbara Inkpen
Barbara Jean Inkpen was born on October 28, 1949, in Farnham, Surrey and is a former female track and field athlete from England, who mainly competed in the high jump event during her career...


1.85
Long jump Ingrid Mickler
Ingrid Becker
Ingrid Mickler-Becker is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion. Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists....


6.76 Meta Antenen
6.73 Heide Rosendahl
Heide Rosendahl
Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump...


6.66
Javelin throw Daniela Jaworska
Daniela Jaworska
Daniela Jaworska is a retired female javelin thrower from Poland, who represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1968 and 1972. She set her personal best in 1973.-Achievements:...


61.00 Ameli Koloska
Ameli Koloska
Ameli Koloska, née Isermeyer is a retired West German javelin thrower. She competed for the VfL Wolfsburg, USC Mainz and TSV Nieder-Olm sports clubs during her active career.-Achievements:-References:...


59.40 Ruth Fuchs
Ruth Fuchs
Ruth Fuchs, née Gamm is a German politician and former athlete. Fuchs, representing East Germany, was the winner of the women's javelin at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games...


59.16
Discus throw Faina Melnyk
64.22 Liesel Westermann
Liesel Westermann
Liesel Westermann-Krieg is a former German athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw.Born in Sulingen, she competed for West Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico where she won the silver medal in the discus event.-References:*...


61.68 Lyudmila Muravyova
59.48
Shot put Nadezhda Chizhova
Nadezhda Chizhova
Nadezhda Vladimirovna Chizhova is a Soviet shot putter who won three Olympic medals and set seven new world records. Nadezhda Chizhova trained at VSS Spartak. She became the first woman to break both the 20 metre and 21 metre barrier...


20.16 Marita Lange
Marita Lange
Marita Lange is a former athlete from East Germany, who won the silver medal behind team mate Margitta Gummel in the shot put event at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico.-References:...


19.25 Margitta Gummel
19.22
Pentathlon Heide Rosendahl
Heide Rosendahl
Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump...


4675 Burglinde Pollak
Burglinde Pollak
Burglinde Pollak, née Grimm, is a German athlete who mainly competed in the women's pentathlon....


4638 Margrit Herbst
Margrit Olfert
Margrit Olfert, née Herbst is a retired East German athlete who specialized in the long jump and pentathlete.She competed for the sports club SC Magdeburg during her active career.-Achievements:-References:...


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Medals table

1  German Democratic Republic 13 13 7 33
2  Soviet Union 9 3 8 20
3  West Germany 4 7 5 16
4  Czechoslovakia 2 1 1 4
5  Early Modern France 2 1 0 3
6  Finland 2 0 0 2
7  United Kingdom 1 3 6 10
8  Poland 1 3 5 9
9  Italy 1 1 3 5
10  Austria 1 0 0 1
10  Belgium 1 0 0 1
10  Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1 0 0 1
13  Romania 0 2 1 3
14  Sweden 0 2 0 2
15  Hungary 0 1 1 2
16  Switzerland 0 1 0 1
17  Greece 0 0 1 1
17 Total 38 38 38 114
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