1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put

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 shot put at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Hartmut Briesenick  East Germany
Silver	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg  East Germany
Bronze	Władysław Komar  Poland

Results

Final

13 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Hartmut Briesenick	East Germany	21.08	AR
	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	East Germany	20.47
	Władysław Komar	Poland	20.04
4	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.99
5	Valeriy Voykin	Soviet Union	19.81
6	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	19.61
7	Dieter Hoffmann	East Germany	19.38
8	Yves Brouzet	France	19.20
9	Pekka Ahnger	Finland	19.00
10	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	18.76
11	Ralf Reichenbach	West Germany	18.74
12	Hans-Dieter Möser	West Germany	18.51
13	Arnjolt Beer	France	18.46
14	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.27
	Heinfried Birlenbach	West Germany	DNS

Qualification

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Władysław Komar	Poland	19.65	Q
2	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.56	Q
3	Hartmut Briesenick	East Germany	19.55	Q
4	Rimantas Plungė	Soviet Union	19.19	Q
5	Pekka Ahnger	Finland	19.14	Q
6	Valeriy Voykin	Soviet Union	19.00	Q
7	Miroslav Janoušek	Czechoslovakia	19.00	Q
8	Yves Brouzet	France	18.96	Q
9	Ralf Reichenbach	West Germany	18.91	Q
10	Heinfried Birlenbach	West Germany	18.89	Q
11	Seppo Simola	Finland	18.83	Q
12	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg	East Germany	18.81	Q
13	Dieter Hoffmann	East Germany	18.75	Q
14	Arnjolt Beer	France	18.75	Q
15	Hans-Dieter Möser	West Germany	18.72	Q
16	Geoff Capes	United Kingdom	18.54
17	Jaroslav Brabec	Czechoslovakia	18.50
18	Matti Yrjölä	Finland	18.49
19	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia	18.43
20	Anders Arrhenius	Sweden	17.84
21	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	17.83
22	Mihály Teveli	Hungary	16.82
23	Sándor Holub	Hungary	16.63

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References