1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

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
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The men's triple jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.^[1]

Gold	Jörg Drehmel  East Germany
Silver	Viktor Sanejev  Soviet Union
Bronze	Carol Corbu  Romania

15 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Jörg Drehmel	East Germany	17.16 w (w: 3.7 m/s)
	Viktor Sanejev	Soviet Union	17.10 w (w: 3 m/s)
	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.87
4	Michael Sauer	West Germany	16.58 (w: 1 m/s)
5	Václav Fišer	Czechoslovakia	16.39 w (w: 2.9 m/s)
6	Heinz-Günter Schenk	East Germany	16.38 w (w: 2.2 m/s)
7	Gennady Bessonov	Soviet Union	16.26 (w: 1.8 m/s)
8	Gennady Salevich	Soviet Union	16.24 w (w: 3.2 m/s)
9	Joachim Kugler	West Germany	16.12 (w: 0.9 m/s)
10	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	15.81 w (w: 2.8 m/s)
11	Józef Szmidt	Poland	15.62 (w: 1.1 m/s)
12	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	14.00

14 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Viktor Sanejev	Soviet Union	16.99	Q
2	Jörg Drehmel	East Germany	16.83	Q
3	Michael Sauer	West Germany	16.50	Q
4	Joachim Kugler	West Germany	16.47	Q
5	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.46	Q
6	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	16.41	Q
7	Václav Fišer	Czechoslovakia	16.32	Q
8	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.27	Q
9	Heinz-Günter Schenk	East Germany	16.23	Q
10	Gennady Bessonov	Soviet Union	16.19	q
11	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.12	q
12	Gennady Salevich	Soviet Union	16.10	q
13	Kristen Fløgstad	Norway	15.93
14	Pentti Kuukasjärvi	Finland	15.83
15	Serge Firca	France	15.79
16	Milan Spasojević	Yugoslavia	15.61
17	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	15.56
18	Aşkın Tuna	Turkey	15.39

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.