1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres

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 1500 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 1 and 3 September 1978.[1]

Medalists

Gold Giana Romanova
 Soviet Union
Silver Natalia Mărăşescu
 Romania
Bronze Totka Petrova
 Bulgaria

Results

Final

3 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Giana Romanova  Soviet Union 3:59.01 CR
2nd Natalia Mărăşescu  Romania 3:59.77
3rd Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 4:00.15
4 Valentina Ilyinykh  Soviet Union 4:00.18
5 Grete Waitz  Norway 4:00.55 NR
6 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 4:01.25
7 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 4:02.20
8 Cornelia Bürki  Switzerland 4:04.60
9 Vesela Yatsinska  Bulgaria 4:04.73
10 Lyudmila Kalnitskaya  Soviet Union 4:06.6
11 Maricica Puică  Romania 4:09.3
12 Christine Benning  United Kingdom 4:11.5

Heats

1 September

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 4:11.50 Q
2 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 4:11.5 Q
3 Vesela Yatsinska  Bulgaria 4:11.7 Q
4 Giana Romanova  Soviet Union 4:11.8 Q
5 Cornelia Bürki  Switzerland 4:11.8 Q
6 Brigitte Kraus  West Germany 4:11.9
7 Mary Stewart  United Kingdom 4:17.5
8 Tineke Kluft  Netherlands 4:17.7
9 Irén Lipcsei  Hungary 4:20.2
10 Fernande Schmitt  Luxembourg 4:31.3

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Natalia Mărăşescu  Romania 4:05.76 Q
2 Maricica Puică  Romania 4:06.1 Q
3 Valentina Ilyinykh  Soviet Union 4:06.3 Q
4 Grete Waitz  Norway 4:06.3 Q
5 Lyudmila Kalnitskaya  Soviet Union 4:06.7 Q
6 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 4:07.2 q
7 Christine Benning  United Kingdom 4:11.8 q
8 Magdolna Lazar  Hungary 4:14.4
9 Drahomíra Zvoníčková  Czechoslovakia 4:19.2
10 Véronique Renties  France 4:40.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK, European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014