The 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 13 and 14 March 1971 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

The track used for the championships was 200 metres long.^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	6.6a =WB	Jobst Hirscht (FRG)	6.7a	Manfred Kokot (GDR)	6.8a
400 metres details	Andrzej Badeński (POL)	46.8 =AR	Boris Savchuk (URS)	47.4	Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS)	47.6
800 metres details	Yevgeniy Arzhanov (URS)	1:48.7	Phil Lewis (GBR)	1:50.5	Andrzej Kupczyk (POL)	1:50.5
1500 metres details	Henryk Szordykowski (POL)	3:41.4 CR	Volodymyr Panteley (URS)	3:41.5	Gianni Del Buono (ITA)	3:42.1
3000 metres details	Peter Stewart (GBR)	7:53.6	Wilfried Scholz (GDR)	7:54.4	Yuriy Aleksashin (URS)	8:01.2
60 metres hurdles details	Eckart Berkes (FRG)	7.8a	Aleksandr Demus (URS)	7.9a	Sergio Liani (ITA)	7.9a
4 × 400 metres relay details	Poland Waldemar Korycki Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski	3:11.1	Soviet Union Aleksandr Bratchikov Semyon Kocher Boris Savchuk Yevgeniy Borisenko	3:11.9	Bulgaria Krestyu Khristov Alexander Yanev Alexander Popov Yordan Todorov	3:15.6
4 × 800 metres relay details	Soviet Union Valeriy Taratynov Stanislav Meshcherskich Aleksey Taranov Viktor Semyashkin	7:17.8	Poland Krzysztof Linkowski Zenon Szordykowski Michał Skowronek Kazimierz Wardak	7:19.2	West Germany Paul-Heinz Wellmann Godehard Brysch Dieter Friedrich Bernd Eppler	7:25.0
High jump details	István Major (HUN)	2.17	Jüri Tarmak (URS)	2.17	Endre Kelemen (HUN)	2.17
Pole vault details	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.40 WR	Kjell Isaksson (SWE)	5.35	Yuriy Isakov (URS)	5.30
Long jump details	Hans Baumgartner (FRG)	8.12	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	7.91	Vasile Sarucan (ROM)	7.88
Triple jump details	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.83	Carol Corbu (ROM)	16.83	Gennadiy Savlevich (URS)	16.24
Shot put details	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	20.19	Valeriy Voykin (URS)	19.54	Ricky Bruch (SWE)	19.50

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Renate Stecher (GDR)	7.3a	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	7.4a	Annegret Irrgang (FRG)	7.4a
400 metres details	Vera Popkova (URS)	53.7	Inge Bödding (FRG)	54.3	Maria Sykora (AUT)	54.4
800 metres details	Hildegard Falck (FRG)	2:06.1	Ileana Silai (ROM)	2:06.5	Rosemary Stirling (GBR)	2:06.6
1500 metres details	Margaret Beacham (GBR)	4:17.2 WR	Lyudmila Bragina (URS)	4:17.8	Tamara Pangelova (URS)	4:18.1
60 metres hurdles details	Karin Balzer (GDR)	8.1a WR	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	8.1a	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	8.3a
4 × 200 metres relay details	Soviet Union Marina Nikiforova Tatyana Kondrasheva Lyudmila Aksyonova Natalya Chistyakova	1:37.1	West Germany Annelie Wilden Elfgard Schittenhelm Annegret Kroniger Christine Tackenberg	1:38.0	Bulgaria Ivanka Venkova Ivanka Koshnicharska Sofka Kazandzhieva Monka Bobcheva	1:39.7
4 × 400 metres relay details	Soviet Union Lyubov Finogenova Galina Kamardina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Aksyonova	3:36.6	West Germany Gisela Ahlemeyer Gisela Ellenberger Annette Rückes Christa Czekay	3:39.6	Bulgaria Svetla Slateva Stefka Yordanova Dzhena Bineva Tonka Petrova	3:47.8
High jump details	Milada Karbanová (TCH)	1.80	Vera Gavrilova (URS)	1.80	Cornelia Popescu (ROM)	1.78
Long jump details	Heide Rosendahl (FRG)	6.64	Irena Szewińska (POL)	6.56	Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM)	6.53
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	19.70 CR	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	19.50	Antonina Ivanova (URS)	18.69

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	8	9	6	23
2	West Germany (FRG)	4	4	2	10
3	East Germany (GDR)	4	3	1	8
4	Poland (POL)	3	2	2	7
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
6	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
8	Romania (ROM)	0	2	3	5
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
10	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	3	3
12	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
13	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		23	23	23	69

• Results - men at GBR Athletics
• Results - women at GBR Athletics
• Detailed results at Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite

• EAA