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 women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.^[1]

Gold	Karin Balzer  East Germany
Silver	Anneliese Ehrhardt  East Germany
Bronze	Teresa Sukniewicz  Poland

13 August Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Karin Balzer	East Germany	12.94	CR
	Anneliese Ehrhardt	East Germany	12.96
	Teresa Sukniewicz	Poland	13.21
4	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.34
5	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	13.35
6	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.46
7	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.47
8	Tatyana Poluboyarova	Soviet Union	13.69

12 August

Wind: -0.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karin Balzer	East Germany	13.20	CR Q
2	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.31	Q
3	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.46	Q
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	13.47	Q
5	Margit Bach	West Germany	13.78
6	Jacqueline André	France	14.05
7	Sirkka Norrlund	Finland	15.55
	Ingunn Einarsdóttir	Iceland	DNS

Wind: 0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anneliese Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.11	CR Q
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.39	Q
3	Teresa Sukniewicz	Poland	13.40	Q
4	Tatyana Poluboyarova	Soviet Union	13.56	Q
5	Gun Olsson	Sweden	13.80
6	Jeanne Schoebel	France	14.11
7	Ileana Ongar	Italy	14.45
8	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	15.20

12 August

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	13.46	Q
2	Teresa Nowak	Poland	13.56	Q
3	Gun Olsson	Sweden	14.04	Q
4	Sirkka Norrlund	Finland	14.05	Q
5	Jeanne Schoebel	France	14.30	Q
6	Sheila Garnett	Great Britain	15.15

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Karin Balzer	East Germany	13.30	CR Q
2	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	13.50	Q
3	Margit Bach	West Germany	13.62	Q
4	Ileana Ongar	Italy	14.51	Q
5	Ingunn Einarsdóttir	Iceland	15.92	Q

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anneliese Ehrhardt	East Germany	13.29	CR Q
2	Teresa Sukniewicz	Poland	13.38	Q
3	Tatyana Poluboyarova	Soviet Union	13.53	Q
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	13.54	Q
5	Jacqueline André	France	14.44	Q
6	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	15.09	q

According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.