1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles

The men's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.^[1]^[2]

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Eckart Berkes West Germany	Aleksandr Demus Soviet Union	Sergio Liani Italy

First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Aleksandr Demus	Soviet Union	8.0	Q
2	1	Jürgen Wehnert	East Germany	8.0	Q
3	1	Luigi Donofrio	Italy	8.1	Q
4	1	Viorel Suciu	Romania	8.2
5	1	Ivan Sedláček	Czechoslovakia	8.3
1	2	Eckart Berkes	West Germany	8.0	Q
2	2	Mirosław Majchrzak	Poland	8.1	Q
3	2	Slavcho Kostov	Bulgaria	8.1	Q
4	2	Nicolae Pertea	Romania	8.1
5	2	Fiorenzo Marchesi	Switzerland	8.5
1	3	Patrick Malrieux	France	8.0	Q
2	3	Manfred Schumann	West Germany	8.1	Q
3	3	Adam Galant	Poland	8.2	Q
4	3	Rafael Cano	Spain	8.4
5	3	Ervin Sebestyen	Romania	8.4
1	4	Günther Nickel	West Germany	8.0	Q
2	4	Graham Gower	Great Britain	8.0	Q
3	4	Sergio Liani	Italy	8.0	Q
4	4	Efstratios Vasiliou	Greece	8.1

First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Eckart Berkes	West Germany	8.0	Q
2	1	Patrick Malrieux	France	8.0	Q
3	1	Sergio Liani	Italy	8.1	Q
4	1	Adam Galant	Poland	8.1
5	1	Manfred Schumann	West Germany	8.1
6	1	Slavcho Kostov	Bulgaria	8.3
1	2	Günther Nickel	West Germany	7.9	Q
2	2	Aleksandr Demus	Soviet Union	8.0	Q
3	2	Graham Gower	Great Britain	8.0	Q
4	2	Luigi Donofrio	Italy	8.0
5	2	Jürgen Wehnert	East Germany	8.0
6	2	Mirosław Majchrzak	Poland	8.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Eckart Berkes	West Germany	7.8
	Aleksandr Demus	Soviet Union	7.9
	Sergio Liani	Italy	7.9
4	Günther Nickel	West Germany	7.9
5	Graham Gower	Great Britain	8.0
6	Patrick Malrieux	France	8.0