1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer 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

The men's hammer throw at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 1 and 2 September 1978.[1]

Medalists

Gold Yuriy Sedykh
 Soviet Union
Silver Roland Steuk
 East Germany
Bronze Karl-Hans Riehm
 West Germany

Results

Final

2 September

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union 77.28 CR
2nd Roland Steuk  East Germany 77.24
3rd Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany 77.02
4 Detlef Gerstenberg  East Germany 76.70
5 Manfred Hüning  West Germany 76.46
6 Boris Zaychuk  Soviet Union 75.62
7 Edoardo Podberscek  Italy 73.02
8 Giampaolo Urlando  Italy 72.62
9 Jochen Sachse  East Germany 71.56
10 Gábor Tamás  Hungary 70.72
11 Harri Huhtala  Finland 69.92
12 Klaus Ploghaus  West Germany 69.30

Qualification

1 September

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1 Roland Steuk  East Germany 73.22 Q
2 Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany 73.06 Q
3 Giampaolo Urlando  Italy 73.04 Q
4 Detlef Gerstenberg  East Germany 72.80 Q
5 Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union 71.36 Q
6 Boris Zaychuk  Soviet Union 71.34 Q
7 Manfred Hüning  West Germany 71.18 Q
8 Klaus Ploghaus  West Germany 70.86 Q
9 Jochen Sachse  East Germany 70.62 Q
10 Edoardo Podberscek  Italy 70.26 Q
11 Gábor Tamás  Hungary 70.04 Q
12 Harri Huhtala  Finland 69.84 Q
13 Orlando Bianchini  Italy 69.78
14 Emanuil Dulgherov  Bulgaria 68.96
15 Aleksey Malyukov  Soviet Union 68.78
16 Richard Olsen  Norway 68.56
17 Jacques Accambray  France 67.78
18 Philippe Suriray  France 66.78
19 Radomil Skoumal  Czechoslovakia 65.44
20 Chris Black  United Kingdom 63.54

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

References

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