1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's long 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

The men's long jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.^[1]

Gold	Max Klauß  East Germany
Silver	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  Soviet Union
Bronze	Stanisław Szudrowicz  Poland

11 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Max Klauß	East Germany	7.92 (w: 0.1 m/s)
	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	7.91 w (w: 2.3 m/s)
	Stanisław Szudrowicz	Poland	7.87 (w: 0.1 m/s)
4	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.85
5	Mauri Myllymäki	Finland	7.85 (w: 1 m/s)
6	Reijo Toivonen	Finland	7.85 (w: 0.1 m/s)
7	Tõnu Lepik	Soviet Union	7.78
8	Jan Kobuszewski	Poland	7.75 (w: 0.9 m/s)
9	Christian Tourret	France	7.74 (w: 0.5 m/s)
10	Valeriy Podluzhniy	Soviet Union	7.68 (w: 1.1 m/s)
11	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.56 (w: 0.9 m/s)
12	Josef Schwarz	West Germany	7.50
13	Terje Haugland	Norway	7.41 (w: 0.7 m/s)
14	Finn Bendixen	Norway	7.32 (w: 0.7 m/s)
15	Vasile Sărucan	Romania	6.05 (w: 0.9 m/s)

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Tõnu Lepik	Soviet Union	7.93	Q
2	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.90	Q
3	Christian Tourret	France	7.82	Q
4	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.82	Q
5	Josef Schwarz	West Germany	7.80	Q
6	Vasile Sărucan	Romania	7.79	Q
7	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	7.77	Q
8	Jan Kobuszewski	Poland	7.77	Q
9	Reijo Toivonen	Finland	7.77	Q
10	Terje Haugland	Norway	7.75	Q
11	Stanisław Szudrowicz	Poland	7.75	Q
12	Finn Bendixen	Norway	7.74	Q
13	Max Klauß	East Germany	7.72	Q
14	Valeriy Podluzhniy	Soviet Union	7.72	Q
15	Mauri Myllymäki	Finland	7.70	Q
16	Klaus Beer	East Germany	7.65
17	Hans Baumgartner	West Germany	7.62
18	Dušan Košutić	Yugoslavia	7.60
19	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia	7.58
20	Andreas Gloerfeld	West Germany	7.57
21	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	7.52
22	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	7.50
23	Jacques Pani	France	7.41
24	Nenad Stekić	Yugoslavia	7.35
25	Gürol Dinsel	Turkey	7.27
26	Geoff Hignett	Great Britain	7.25
27	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	7.24
28	Gábor Katona	Hungary	7.22
29	Jaroslav Brož	Czechoslovakia	5.92
	Alan Lerwill	Great Britain	NM

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.