The 10th European Athletics Championships were held from 10 August to 15 August 1971 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the
The logo of the 1971 European Athletics Championships
Finnish Postage stamp
Faina Melnik
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Faina Grigorievna Veleva-Melnik was a Soviet discus thrower, a 1972 Summer Olympics champion in the discus event. During her career she set 11 world records.
Faina Melnik at the 1972 Olympics
Faina Melnyk on a 2010 Armenian stamp