1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw

Events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's discus throw at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 2 and 3 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany
Silver	Markku Tuokko Finland
Bronze	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
01 !	Wolfgang Schmidt	East Germany	66.82
02 !	Markku Tuokko	Finland	64.90
03 !	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	64.66
4	Velko Velev	Bulgaria	64.56
5	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	63.76
6	Alwin Wagner	West Germany	62.70
7	Dmitriy Kovtsun	Soviet Union	61.84
8	Wolfgang Warnemünde	East Germany	61.28
9	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	60.22
10	Igor Duginyets	Soviet Union	59.80
11	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland	59.44
12	Silvano Simeon	Italy	59.16

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Wolfgang Schmidt	East Germany	67.20	CR Q
2	Wolfgang Warnemünde	East Germany	63.80	Q
3	Markku Tuokko	Finland	62.82	Q
4	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	62.36	Q
5	Alwin Wagner	West Germany	62.04	Q
6	Igor Duginyets	Soviet Union	61.52	Q
7	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	60.96	Q
8	Dmitriy Kovtsun	Soviet Union	60.96	Q
9	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland	60.86	Q
10	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	59.82	Q
11	Velko Velev	Bulgaria	59.62	Q
12	Silvano Simeon	Italy	59.28	Q
13	Werner Hartmann	West Germany	59.14
14	Dariusz Juzyszyn	Poland	58.86
15	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	58.60
16	Armando De Vincentiis	Italy	58.20
17	Frédéric Piette	France	57.54
18	Josef Šilhavý	Czechoslovakia	57.28
19	Juhani Tuomola	Finland	56.38
20	János Faragó	Hungary	56.14

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

Discus throw at the European Athletics Championships

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