XIV

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
v t e

The men's 10,000 metres at the: 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 August 1971.

Medalists※

Gold	Juha Väätäinen  Finland
Silver	Jürgen Haase  East Germany
Bronze	Rashid Sharafetdinov  Soviet Union

Results※

Final※

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Juha Väätäinen	Finland	27:52.78	CR NR
	Jürgen Haase	East Germany	27:53.35	NR
	Rashid Sharafetdinov	Soviet Union	27:56.26	NR
4	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	27:58.38	NR
5	Mariano Haro	Spain	27:59.33	NR
6	Dave Bedford	Great Britain	28:04.33
7	Mike Tagg	Great Britain	28:14.65
8	Seppo Tuominen	Finland	28:17.98
9	Manfred Letzerich	West Germany	28:20.91	NR
10	Noël Tijou	France	28:21.65
11	Werner Dossegger	Switzerland	28:22.88	NR
12	Lucien Rault	France	28:23.11
13	Jack Lane	Great Britain	28:24.01
14	Arne Risa	Norway	28:24.41	NR
15	Joachim Krebs	East Germany	28:26.67
16	Karel Lismont	Belgium	28:31.17
17	Lasse Virén	Finland	28:33.12
18	Nikolay Sviridov	Soviet Union	28:41.09
19	Josef Jánský	Czechoslovakia	28:43.08	NR
20	René Jourdan	France	28:46.08
21	Donald Walsh	Ireland	28:52.60	NR
22	Edward Mleczko	Poland	28:55.73
23	Henryk Piotrowski	Poland	29:01.68
24	Eckhard Lesse	East Germany	29:02.53
25	Janos Szerenyi	Hungary	29:03.93
26	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	29:07.49
27	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	29:13.65
28	Jens Wollenberg	West Germany	29:25.41
29	Per Halle	Norway	29:32.25
30	Josef Wirth	Switzerland	29:33.71
31	Egbert Nijstadt	Netherlands	29:48.08
32	Dieter Brand	West Germany	29:59.29
33	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	30:05.64
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	DNF
	Nedo Farčić	Yugoslavia	DNF

Participation※

According——to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 18 countries participated in the——event.

References※