1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Events at the
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

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.[1]

Medalists

Gold Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Luděk Bohman
 Czechoslovakia
Silver Gerard Gramse
Tadeusz Cuch
Zenon Nowosz
Marian Dudziak
 Poland
Bronze Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni
 Italy

Results

Final

15 August

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s)  Czechoslovakia Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Luděk Bohman
39.32 NR
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Poland Gerard Gramse
Tadeusz Cuch
Zenon Nowosz
Marian Dudziak
39.72
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Italy Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni
39.78
4  United Kingdom Brian Green
Martin Reynolds
Don Halliday
Les Piggot
39.78
5  Soviet Union Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Aleksandr Zhidkikh
Aleksandr Lebedev
Aleksey Chebykin
40.00
6  West Germany Manfred Ommer
Karl-Heinz Klotz
Gerhard Wucherer
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
DNF
7  East Germany Hans-Jürgen Bombach
Jörg Pfeifer
Hermann Burde
Hans-Joachim Zenk
DQ
8  France Dominique Chauvelot
Patrick Bourbeillon
Gérard Fenouil
Jean-Pierre Grès
DQ

Heats

14 August

Heat 1

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  West Germany Manfred Ommer
Karl-Heinz Klotz
Gerhard Wucherer
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
39.55 Q
2  United Kingdom Brian Green
Martin Reynolds
Don Halliday
Les Piggot
39.77 Q
3  Poland Gerard Gramse
Tadeusz Cuch
Zenon Nowosz
Marian Dudziak
39.83 Q
4  Italy Vincenzo Guerini
Pietro Mennea
Pasqualino Abeti
Ennio Preatoni
39.95 Q
5  Sweden Curt Johansson
Thorsten Johansson
Bo Söderberg
Anders Faager
40.67

Heat 2

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  France Dominique Chauvelot
Patrick Bourbeillon
Gérard Fenouil
Jean-Pierre Grès
39.40 Q
2  East Germany Hans-Jürgen Bombach
Jörg Pfeifer
Hermann Burde
Hans-Joachim Zenk
39.42 Q
3  Czechoslovakia Ladislav Kříž
Juraj Demeč
Jiří Kynos
Luděk Bohman
39.77 Q
4  Soviet Union Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Aleksandr Zhidkikh
Aleksandr Lebedev
Aleksey Chebykin
39.78 Q
5  Yugoslavia Hrvoje Vincijanovic
Ivica Karasi
Miro Kocuvan
Predrag Križan
DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References

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