1978 European Championships in Athletics

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The 12th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 29 to September 3, 1978 in Prague, the capital city of Czechoslovakia.

1 Men's Results
- 1.1 Track
- 1.2 Field
2 Women's Results
- 2.1 Track
- 2.2 Field
3 Medals Table
4 External links and references

[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Pietro Mennea Italy	10.27	Eugen Ray German D.R.	10.36	Vladimir Ignatienko Soviet Union	10.31
200 m	Pietro Mennea Italy	20.16	Olaf Prenzler German D.R.	20.61	Peter Muster Switzerland	20.64
400 m	Franz-Peter Hofmeister F.R.of Germany	45.73	Karel Kolář Czechoslovakia	45.77	Francois Demarthon France	45.97
800 m	Olaf Beyer German D.R.	1:43.84	Steve Ovett Great Britain & NI	1:44.09	Sebastian Coe Great Britain & NI	1:44.76
1500 m	Steve Ovett Great Britain & NI	3:35.59	Eamonn Coghlan Ireland	3:36.57	David Moorcroft Great Britain & NI	3:36.70
5000 m	Venanzio Ortis Italy	13:28.57	Markus Ryffel Switzerland	13:28.66	Aleksandr Fedotkin Soviet Union	13:28.66 (Silver)
10 000 m	Martti Vainio Finland	27:30.99	Venanzio Ortis Italy	27:31.48	Aleksandr Antipov Soviet Union	27:31.5
Marathon	Leonid Moseyev Soviet Union	2:11:57.5	Nikolae Penzin Soviet Union	2:11:59.0	Karel Lismont Belgium	2:12:07.7
110 m h	Thomas Munkelt German D.R.	13.44	Jan Pusty Poland	13.55	Arto Bryggare Finland	13.56
400 m h	Harald Schmid F.R. of Germany	48.51	Dmitriy Stukalov Soviet Union	49.72	Vasiliy Arkhipenko Soviet Union	49.77
3000 m st	Bronislaw Malinowski Poland	8:15.08	Patriz Ilg F.R. of Germany	8:16.92	Ismo Toukonen Finland	8:18.29
20 km Walk	Ronald Wieser German D.R.	1:23:11.5	Pyotr Pochenchuk Soviet Union	1:23:43.0	Anatoly Solomin Soviet Union	1:24:11.5
50 km Walk	Jorge Llopart Spain	3:53:29.9	Veniamin Soldatenko Soviet Union	3:55:12.1	Jan Ornoch Poland	3:55:15.9
4 X 100 m	Poland Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin	38.58	German D.R. Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme	38.78	Soviet Union Sergey Vladimirsev Nikolai Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko	38.82
4 X 400 m	F.R. of Germany Martin Weppler Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann Harald Schmid	3:02.03	Poland Jerzy Włodarczyk Zbigniew Jaremski Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas	3:03.62	Czechoslovakia Josef Lomický František Brečka Miroslav Tulis Karel Kolář	3:04.99

[edit] Field

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Vladimir Yashchenko Soviet Union	2.30	Aleksandr Grigoryev Soviet Union	2.28	Rolf Beilschmidt German D.R.	2.28
Long Jump	Jacques Rousseau France	8.18	Nenad Stecic Yugoslavia	8.12	Vladimir Tsepelyov Soviet Union	8.01
Pole Vault	Vladimir Trofimenko Soviet Union	5.55	Antti Kalliomäki Finland	5.50	Rauli Pudas Finland	5.45
Triple Jump	Miloš Srejović Yugoslavia	16.94	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	16.93	Anatoliy Piskulin Soviet Union	16.87
Shot Put	Udo Beyer German D.R.	21.08	Yevgeniyironov Soviet Union	20.87	Aleksandr Baryshnikov Soviet Union	20.68
Discus	Wolfgang Schmidt German D.R.	66.82	Markku Tuokko Finland	64.90	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia	64.66
Javelin	Michael Wessing F.R. of Germany	89.12	Nikolay Grebniev Soviet Union	87.82	Wolfgang Hanisch German D.R.	87.66
Hammer	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union	77.28	Roland Steuk German D.R.	77.24	Karl Hans Riehm F.R. of Germany	77.02
Decathlon	Aleksandr Grebenyuk Soviet Union	8340	Daley Thompson Great Britain & NI	8289	Siegfried Stark German D.R.	8208

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Marlies Göhr German D.R.	11.13	Linda Haglund Sweden	11.29	Lyudmilla Maslakova Soviet Union	11.31
200 m	Lyudmila Kondratyeva Soviet Union	22.52	Marlies Göhr German D.R.	22.53	Carla Bodendorf German D.R.	22.64
400 m	Marita Koch German D.R.	48.94	Christina Brehmer German D.R.	50.38	Irena Szewińska Poland	50.40
800 m	Tatyana Providokhina Soviet Union	1:55.80	Nadezhda Mushta Soviet Union	1:55.82	Zoya Rigel Soviet Union	1:56.57
1500 m	Giana Romanova Soviet Union	3:59.8	Natalia Marasescu Romania	3:58.77	Totka Petrova Bulgaria	4:00.15
3000 m	Svetlana Ulmasova Soviet Union	8:33.16	Natalia Marasescu Romania	8:33.53	Grete Waitz Norway	8:34.33
100 m h	Johanna Klier German D.R.	12.62	Tatiana Anisimova Soviet Union	12.67	Gudrun Berend German D.R.	12.73
400 m h	Tatiana Zelentsova Soviet Union	54.89	Silvia Hollmann F.R. of Germany	55.14	Karin Rossley German D.R.	55.36
4 X 100 m	Soviet Union Vera Anisimova Liudmila Maslakova Liudmila Kondratyeva Liudmila Storoshkova	42.54	Great Britain Beverley Goddard Kathryn Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman	42.72	German D.R. Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr	43.07
4 X 400 m	German D.R. Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch	3:21.20	Soviet Union Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providochina Maria Kulchunova	3:22.53	Poland Małgorzata Grajenska Krystyna Kasprzyk Genowefa Blaszak Irena Szewińska	3:26.76

[edit] Field

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Sara Simeoni Italy	2.01	Rosemarie Ackermann German D.R.	1.99	Brigitte Holtzapfel F.R.of Germany	1.95
Long Jump	Vilma Bardauskiene Soviet Union	6.88	Angela Voigt German D.R.	6.79	Jarmila Nygrýnová Czechoslovakia	6.69
Shot Put	Ilona Slupianek German D.R.	21.41	Helena Fibingerová Czechoslovakia	20.86	Margitta Droese German D.R.	20.58
Discus	Evelin Jahl German D.R.	66.98	Margitta Droese German D.R.	64.04	Natalya Gorbachova Soviet Union	63.58
Javelin	Ruth Fuchs German D.R.	69.16	Teresa Sanderson Great Britain & NI	62.40	Ute Hommola German D.R.	62.32
Pentathlon	Margit Papp Hungary	4655	Burglinde Pollak German D.R.	4600	Kristine Nitzsche German D.R.	4599

[edit] Medals Table

Position:	Nation:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	Soviet Union	12	11	12	35
2.	East Germany	12	10	10	32
3.	West Germany	4	2	2	8
4.	Italy	4	1	0	5
5.	Poland	2	2	3	7
6.	United Kingdom	1	4	2	7
7.	Finland	1	2	3	6
8.	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
9.	France	1	0	1	2
10=	Spain	1	0	0	1
10=	Hungary	1	0	0	1
12.	Czechoslovakia	0	2	3	5
13.	Romania	0	2	0	2
14.	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
15=	Ireland	0	1	0	1
15=	Sweden	0	1	0	1
17=	Belgium	0	0	1	1
17=	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
17=	Norway	0	0	1	1