# 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 13 and 14 March 1971 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
The track used for the championships was 200 metres long.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 6.6a =WB | Jobst Hirscht (FRG) | 6.7a | Manfred Kokot (GDR) | 6.8a |
| 400 metres details | Andrzej Badeński (POL) | 46.8 =AR | Boris Savchuk (URS) | 47.4 | Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS) | 47.6 |
| 800 metres details | Yevgeniy Arzhanov (URS) | 1:48.7 | Phil Lewis (GBR) | 1:50.5 | Andrzej Kupczyk (POL) | 1:50.5 |
| 1500 metres details | Henryk Szordykowski (POL) | 3:41.4 CR | Volodymyr Panteley (URS) | 3:41.5 | Gianni Del Buono (ITA) | 3:42.1 |
| 3000 metres details | Peter Stewart (GBR) | 7:53.6 | Wilfried Scholz (GDR) | 7:54.4 | Yuriy Aleksashin (URS) | 8:01.2 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Eckart Berkes (FRG) | 7.8a | Aleksandr Demus (URS) | 7.9a | Sergio Liani (ITA) | 7.9a |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Poland Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski | 3:11.1 | Soviet Union Aleksandr Bratchikov Semyon Kocher Boris Savchuk Yevgeniy Borisenko | 3:11.9 | Bulgaria Krestyu Khristov Alexander Yanev Alexander Popov Yordan Todorov | 3:15.6 |
| 4 × 800 metres relay details | Soviet Union Valeriy Taratynov Stanislav Meshcherskich Aleksey Taranov Viktor Semyashkin | 7:17.8 | Poland Krzysztof Linkowski Zenon Szordykowski Michał Skowronek Kazimierz Wardak | 7:19.2 | West Germany Paul-Heinz Wellmann Godehard Brysch Dieter Friedrich Bernd Eppler | 7:25.0 |
| High jump details | István Major (HUN) | 2.17 | Jüri Tarmak (URS) | 2.17 | Endre Kelemen (HUN) | 2.17 |
| Pole vault details | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.40 WR | Kjell Isaksson (SWE) | 5.35 | Yuriy Isakov (URS) | 5.30 |
| Long jump details | Hans Baumgartner (FRG) | 8.12 | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 7.91 | Vasile Sarucan (ROM) | 7.88 |
| Triple jump details | Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) | 16.83 | Carol Corbu (ROM) | 16.83 | Gennadiy Savlevich (URS) | 16.24 |
| Shot put details | Hartmut Briesenick (GDR) | 20.19 | Valeriy Voykin (URS) | 19.54 | Ricky Bruch (SWE) | 19.50 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Renate Stecher (GDR) | 7.3a | Sylviane Telliez (FRA) | 7.4a | Annegret Irrgang (FRG) | 7.4a |
| 400 metres details | Vera Popkova (URS) | 53.7 | Inge Bödding (FRG) | 54.3 | Maria Sykora (AUT) | 54.4 |
| 800 metres details | Hildegard Falck (FRG) | 2:06.1 | Ileana Silai (ROM) | 2:06.5 | Rosemary Stirling (GBR) | 2:06.6 |
| 1500 metres details | Margaret Beacham (GBR) | 4:17.2 WR | Lyudmila Bragina (URS) | 4:17.8 | Tamara Pangelova (URS) | 4:18.1 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Karin Balzer (GDR) | 8.1a WR | Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR) | 8.1a | Teresa Sukniewicz (POL) | 8.3a |
| 4 × 200 metres relay details | Soviet Union Marina Nikiforova Tatyana Kondrasheva Lyudmila Aksyonova Natalya Chistyakova | 1:37.1 | West Germany Annelie Wilden Elfgard Schittenhelm Annegret Kroniger Christine Tackenberg | 1:38.0 | Bulgaria Ivanka Venkova Ivanka Koshnicharska Sofka Kazandzhieva Monka Bobcheva | 1:39.7 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Soviet Union Lyubov Finogenova Galina Kamardina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Aksyonova | 3:36.6 | West Germany Gisela Ahlemeyer Gisela Ellenberger Annette Rückes Christa Czekay | 3:39.6 | Bulgaria Svetla Slateva Stefka Yordanova Dzhena Bineva Tonka Petrova | 3:47.8 |
| High jump details | Milada Karbanová (TCH) | 1.80 | Vera Gavrilova (URS) | 1.80 | Cornelia Popescu (ROM) | 1.78 |
| Long jump details | Heide Rosendahl (FRG) | 6.64 | Irena Szewińska (POL) | 6.56 | Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM) | 6.53 |
| Shot put details | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 19.70 CR | Margitta Gummel (GDR) | 19.50 | Antonina Ivanova (URS) | 18.69 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 23 |
| 2 | West Germany (FRG) | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 23 | 23 | 23 | 69 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (5)
* Belgium (6)
* Bulgaria (33)
* Czechoslovakia (15)
* Denmark (2)
* East Germany (13)
* Finland (5)
* France (17)
* Great Britain (11)
* Greece (6)
* Hungary (12)
* Ireland (2)
* Italy (9)
* Netherlands (9)
* Poland (26)
* Romania (18)
* Soviet Union (49)
* Spain (12)
* Sweden (10)
* Switzerland (5)
* Turkey (4)
* West Germany (42)
* Yugoslavia (5)