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

Gold	Renate Stecher  East Germany
Silver	Györgyi Balogh  Hungary
Bronze	Irena Szewińska  Poland

13 August Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Renate Stecher	East Germany	22.70	CR
	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	23.26
	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.32
4	Nadezhda Besfamilnaya	Soviet Union	23.42
5	Annegret Kroniger	West Germany	23.62
6	Rita Wilden	West Germany	23.62
7	Ellen Stropahl	East Germany	23.63
8	Christina Heinich	East Germany	23.73

12 August

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Annegret Kroniger	West Germany	23.37	Q
2	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	23.42	Q
3	Rita Wilden	West Germany	23.50	Q
4	Christina Heinich	East Germany	23.62	Q
5	Urszula Jóźwik	Poland	24.01
6	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	24.02
7	Gabrielle Meyer	France	24.31

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Renate Stecher	East Germany	23.26	Q
2	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.54	Q
3	Nadezhda Besfamilnaya	Soviet Union	23.60	Q
4	Ellen Stropahl	East Germany	23.68	Q
5	Margaret Critchley	Great Britain	23.91
6	Trudy Ruth	Netherlands	23.92
7	Helga Kapfer	Austria	24.11
8	Annelie Wilden	West Germany	24.46

12 August

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Renate Stecher	East Germany	23.83	Q
2	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	24.13	Q
3	Helga Kapfer	Austria	24.15	Q
4	Margaret Critchley	Great Britain	24.21	Q
5	Barbara Bakulin	Poland	24.57

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Annegret Kroniger	West Germany	23.83	Q
2	Ellen Stropahl	East Germany	23.85	Q
3	Irena Szewińska	Poland	25.61	Q

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christina Heinich	East Germany	23.82	Q
2	Trudy Ruth	Netherlands	23.98	Q
3	Györgyi Balogh	Hungary	24.32	Q
4	Annelie Wilden	West Germany	24.51	Q
5	Elisabeth Randerz	Sweden	24.81

Wind: 0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rita Wilden	West Germany	23.64	Q
2	Nadezhda Besfamilnaya	Soviet Union	23.74	Q
3	Urszula Jóźwik	Poland	24.14	Q
4	Gabrielle Meyer	France	24.25	Q
5	Karin Lundgren	Sweden	24.61
6	Della Pascoe	Great Britain	24.66

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.