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 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.^[1]

Gold	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman  Czechoslovakia
Silver	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak  Poland
Bronze	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni  Italy

15 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.32	NR
	Poland	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak	39.72
	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni	39.78
4	Great Britain	Brian Green Martin Reynolds Don Halliday Les Piggot	39.78
5	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kornelyuk Aleksandr Zhidkikh Aleksandr Lebedev Aleksey Chebykin	40.00
	West Germany	Manfred Ommer Karl-Heinz Klotz Gerhard Wucherer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	DNF
	East Germany	Hans-Jürgen Bombach Jörg Pfeifer Hermann Burde Hans-Joachim Zenk	DQ
	France	Dominique Chauvelot Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil Jean-Pierre Grès	DQ

14 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	West Germany	Manfred Ommer Karl-Heinz Klotz Gerhard Wucherer Franz-Peter Hofmeister	39.55	Q
2	Great Britain	Brian Green Martin Reynolds Don Halliday Les Piggot	39.77	Q
3	Poland	Gerard Gramse Tadeusz Cuch Zenon Nowosz Marian Dudziak	39.83	Q
4	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea Pasqualino Abeti Ennio Preatoni	39.95	Q
5	Sweden	Curt Johansson Thorsten Johansson Bo Söderberg Anders Faager	40.67

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	France	Dominique Chauvelot Patrick Bourbeillon Gérard Fenouil Jean-Pierre Grès	39.40	Q
2	East Germany	Hans-Jürgen Bombach Jörg Pfeifer Hermann Burde Hans-Joachim Zenk	39.42	Q
3	Czechoslovakia	Ladislav Kříž Juraj Demeč Jiří Kynos Luděk Bohman	39.77	Q
4	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kornelyuk Aleksandr Zhidkikh Aleksandr Lebedev Aleksey Chebykin	39.78	Q
	Yugoslavia	Hrvoje Vincijanovic Ivica Karasi Miro Kocuvan Predrag Križan	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.