1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles

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 women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 31 August and 2 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Johanna Klier  East Germany
Silver	Tatyana Anisimova  Soviet Union
Bronze	Gudrun Berend  East Germany

Results

Final

2 September Wind: 0.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Johanna Klier	East Germany	12.62
02 !	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.67
03 !	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	12.73
4	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	12.86
5	Lucyna Langer	Poland	12.98
6	Annerose Fiedler	East Germany	13.09
7	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.17
8	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	DNF

Semi-finals

31 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.60	CR Q
2	Johanna Klier	East Germany	12.90	Q
3	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	13.00	Q
4	Annerose Fiedler	East Germany	13.07	Q
5	Sharon Colyear	United Kingdom	13.25
6	Xénia Siska	Hungary	13.36
7	Monika Schönauerová	Czechoslovakia	13.72
8	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.90

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	12.90	Q
2	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.92	Q
3	Lucyna Langer	Poland	13.00	Q
4	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.14	Q
5	Lorna Boothe	United Kingdom	13.44
6	Elisavet Pantazi	Greece	13.82
7	Sylvia Kempin	East Germany	DNF
8	Lidia Gusheva	Bulgaria	DNS

Heats

31 August

Heat 1

Wind: -0.3m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grazyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.94	Q
2	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	13.04	Q
3	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	13.26	Q
4	Xénia Siska	Hungary	13.48	Q
5	Shirley Strong	United Kingdom	13.56
6	Laurence Elloy	France	14.07

Heat 2

Wind: 1.8m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Johanna Klier	East Germany	12.85	Q
2	Lucyna Langer	Poland	13.13	Q
3	Sharon Colyear	United Kingdom	13.23	Q
4	Sylvia Kempin	East Germany	13.40	Q
5	Laurence Lebeau	France	13.60
6	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	13.63

Heat 3

Wind: -1.9m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.20	Q
2	Lorna Boothe	United Kingdom	13.46	Q
3	Lidia Gusheva	Bulgaria	13.52	Q
4	Monika Schönauerová	Czechoslovakia	13.61	Q
5	Lena Spoof	Finland	13.63

Heat 4

Wind: 0.4m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.85	Q
2	Annerose Fiedler	East Germany	13.43	Q
3	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.74	Q
4	Elisavet Pantazi	Greece	13.84	Q
5	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	13.95
6	Hana Chocová	Czechoslovakia	14.04

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References