1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

Medalists

Gold	Juha Väätäinen Finland
Silver	Jürgen Haase East Germany
Bronze	Rashid Sharafetdinov Soviet Union

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Juha Väätäinen	Finland	27:52.78	CR NR
	Jürgen Haase	East Germany	27:53.35	NR
	Rashid Sharafetdinov	Soviet Union	27:56.26	NR
4	Danijel Korica	Yugoslavia	27:58.38	NR
5	Mariano Haro	Spain	27:59.33	NR
6	Dave Bedford	Great Britain	28:04.33
7	Mike Tagg	Great Britain	28:14.65
8	Seppo Tuominen	Finland	28:17.98
9	Manfred Letzerich	West Germany	28:20.91	NR
10	Noël Tijou	France	28:21.65
11	Werner Dossegger	Switzerland	28:22.88	NR
12	Lucien Rault	France	28:23.11
13	Jack Lane	Great Britain	28:24.01
14	Arne Risa	Norway	28:24.41	NR
15	Joachim Krebs	East Germany	28:26.67
16	Karel Lismont	Belgium	28:31.17
17	Lasse Virén	Finland	28:33.12
18	Nikolay Sviridov	Soviet Union	28:41.09
19	Josef Jánský	Czechoslovakia	28:43.08	NR
20	René Jourdan	France	28:46.08
21	Donald Walsh	Ireland	28:52.60	NR
22	Edward Mleczko	Poland	28:55.73
23	Henryk Piotrowski	Poland	29:01.68
24	Eckhard Lesse	East Germany	29:02.53
25	Janos Szerenyi	Hungary	29:03.93
26	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	29:07.49
27	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	29:13.65
28	Jens Wollenberg	West Germany	29:25.41
29	Per Halle	Norway	29:32.25
30	Josef Wirth	Switzerland	29:33.71
31	Egbert Nijstadt	Netherlands	29:48.08
32	Dieter Brand	West Germany	29:59.29
33	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	30:05.64
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	DNF
	Nedo Farčić	Yugoslavia	DNF