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 long jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 14 August 1971.^[1]

Gold	Ingrid Mickler  West Germany
Silver	Meta Antenen   Switzerland
Bronze	Heide Rosendahl  West Germany

14 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	6.76 (w: 1.8 m/s)	CR
	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	6.73 (w: 0.1 m/s)	NR
	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	6.66
4	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.62 (w: 1.2 m/s)
5	Irena Szewińska	Poland	6.62 (w: 1.3 m/s)
6	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.39 (w: 1.3 m/s)
7	Christa Herzog	West Germany	6.38
8	Barbara-Anne Barrett	Great Britain	6.31
9	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	6.29
10	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	6.07 (w: 0.4 m/s)
11	Birgitta Larsson	Sweden	6.06 (w: 1.2 m/s)
12	Radojka Francoti	Yugoslavia	6.05

13 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.41	Q
2	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	6.40	Q
3	Christa Herzog	West Germany	6.40	Q
4	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	6.40	Q
5	Irena Szewińska	Poland	6.31	Q
6	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	6.28	Q
7	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	6.25	Q
8	Barbara-Anne Barrett	Great Britain	6.23	q
9	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.17	q
10	Radojka Francoti	Yugoslavia	6.12	q
11	Birgitta Larsson	Sweden	6.09	q
12	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	6.09	q
13	Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland	6.03
14	Tuula Rautanen	Finland	6.01
15	Hannah Kleinpeter	Austria	5.74
16	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	5.73
17	Jarmila Strejčková	Czechoslovakia	5.66

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