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 East Germany	10.36	Vladimir Ignatienko Soviet Union	10.31
200 m	Pietro Mennea Italy	20.16	Olaf Prenzler East Germany	20.61	Peter Muster Switzerland	20.64
400 m	Franz-Peter Hofmeister West Germany	45.73	Karel Kolář Czechoslovakia	45.77	Francois Demarthon France	45.97
800 m	Olaf Beyer East Germany	1:43.84	Steve Ovett United Kingdom	1:44.09	Sebastian Coe United Kingdom	1:44.76
1500 m	Steve Ovett United Kingdom	3:35.59	Eamonn Coghlan Ireland	3:36.57	David Moorcroft United Kingdom	3:36.70
5000 m	Venanzio Ortis Italy	13:28.57	Markus Ryffel Switzerland Aleksandr Fedotkin Soviet Union	13:28.66
10 000 m	Martti Vainio Finland	27:30.99	Venanzio Ortis Italy	27:31.48	Aleksandr Antipov Soviet Union	27:31.50
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 East Germany	13.44	Jan Pusty Poland	13.55	Arto Bryggare Finland	13.56
400 m h	Harald Schmid West 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 West Germany	8:16.92	Ismo Toukonen Finland	8:18.29
20 km Walk	Ronald Wieser East Germany	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	East Germany 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	West 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 East Germany	2.28
Long Jump	Jacques Rousseau France	8.18	Nenad Stekić 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 East Germany	21.08	Yevgeni Mironov Soviet Union	20.87	Aleksandr Baryshnikov Soviet Union	20.68
Discus	Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany	66.82	Markku Tuokko Finland	64.90	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia	64.66
Javelin	Michael Wessing West Germany	89.12	Nikolay Grebniev Soviet Union	87.82	Wolfgang Hanisch East Germany	87.66
Hammer	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union	77.28	Roland Steuk East Germany	77.24	Karl Hans Riehm West Germany	77.02
Decathlon	Aleksandr Grebenyuk Soviet Union	8340	Daley Thompson United Kingdom	8289	Siegfried Stark East Germany	8208

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Marlies Göhr East Germany	11.13	Linda Haglund Sweden	11.29	Lyudmila Maslakova Soviet Union	11.31
200 m	Lyudmila Kondratyeva Soviet Union	22.52	Marlies Göhr East Germany	22.53	Carla Bodendorf East Germany	22.64
400 m	Marita Koch East Germany	48.94	Christina Brehmer East Germany	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 East Germany	12.62	Tatiana Anisimova Soviet Union	12.67	Gudrun Berend East Germany	12.73
400 m h	Tatiana Zelentsova Soviet Union	54.89	Silvia Hollmann West Germany	55.14	Karin Rossley East Germany	55.36
4 X 100 m	Soviet Union Vera Anisimova Liudmila Maslakova Liudmila Kondratyeva Liudmila Storoshkova	42.54	United Kingdom Beverley Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman	42.72	East Germany Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr	43.07
4 X 400 m	East Germany 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 East Germany	1.99	Brigitte Holzapfel West Germany	1.95
Long Jump	Vilma Bardauskiené Soviet Union	6.88	Angela Voigt East Germany	6.79	Jarmila Nygrýnová Czechoslovakia	6.69
Shot Put	Ilona Slupianek East Germany	21.41	Helena Fibingerová Czechoslovakia	20.86	Margitta Droese East Germany	20.58
Discus	Evelin Jahl East Germany	66.98	Margitta Droese East Germany	64.04	Natalya Gorbachova Soviet Union	63.58
Javelin	Ruth Fuchs East Germany	69.16	Tessa Sanderson United Kingdom	62.40	Ute Hommola East Germany	62.32
Pentathlon	Margit Papp Hungary	4655	Burglinde Pollak East Germany	4600	Kristine Nitzsche East Germany	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