1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 9th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Palasport di San Siro in Milan, a city in Italy, in 1978. It was the first time the championships was held in Italy.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Nikolay Kolesnikov (URS)	6.64	Petar Petrov (BUL)	6.66	Aleksandr Aksinin (URS)	6.73
400 metres	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	46.51	Ryszard Podlas (POL)	46.55	Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS)	46.72
800 metres	Markku Taskinen (FIN)	1:47.35 NR	Olaf Beyer (GDR)	1:47.68	Roger Milhau (FRA)	1:47.8a
1500 metres	Antti Loikkanen (FIN)	3:38.16 CR	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:38.23	Jürgen Straub (GDR)	3:40.2a
3000 metres	Markus Ryffel (SUI)	7:49.5a	Emiel Puttemans (BEL)	7:49.9a	Jörg Peter (GDR)	7:50.1a
60 metres hurdles	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	7.62 =CR	Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS)	7.72	Giuseppe Buttari (ITA)	7.86
Pole vault	Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL)	5.45	Vladimir Trofimenko (URS)	5.40	Vladimir Sergiyenko (URS)	5.40
High jump	Vladimir Yashchenko (URS)	2.35 CR	Rolf Beilschmidt (GDR)	2.29	Wolfgang Killing (FRG)	2.27
Long jump	László Szalma (HUN)	7.83	Ronald Desruelles (BEL)	7.75	Vladimir Tsepelyov (URS)	7.73
Triple jump	Anatoliy Piskulin (URS)	16.82	Keith Connor (GBR)	16.53	Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS)	16.47
Shot put	Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN)	20.48	Władysław Komar (POL)	20.16	Geoff Capes (GBR)	20.11

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Marlies Oelsner (GDR)	7.12 CR	Linda Haglund (SWE)	7.18 NR	Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS)	7.27
400 metres	Marina Sidorova (URS)	52.42	Rita Bottiglieri (ITA)	53.18	Karoline Käfer (AUT)	53.56
800 metres	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	2:02.3a	Totka Petrova (BUL)	2:02.5a	Mariana Suman (ROM)	2:03.4a
1500 metres	Ileana Silai (ROM)	4:07.1a CR	Natalia Marasescu (ROM)	4:07.4a	Brigitte Kraus (FRG)	4:07.6a
60 metres hurdles	Johanna Klier (GDR)	7.94 CR	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	8.07	Silvia Kempin (GDR)	8.15
High jump	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.94 CR	Brigitte Holzapfel (FRG)	1.91	Urszula Kielan (POL)	1.88
Long jump	Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH)	6.62	Ildikó Erdélyi (HUN)	6.49	Sue Reeve (GBR)	6.48
Shot put	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	20.67	Margitta Droese (GDR)	19.77	Eva Wilms (FRG)	19.24

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	4	3	3	10
2	Soviet Union	4	2	6	12
3	Finland	3	0	0	3
4	Italy	2	1	1	4
5	Czechoslovakia	2	0	0	2
6	Poland	1	3	1	5
7	Romania	1	1	1	3
8	Hungary	1	1	0	2
9	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
10	West Germany	0	2	3	5
11	Belgium	0	2	0	2
11	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
13	United Kingdom	0	1	2	3
14	Sweden	0	1	0	1
15	Austria	0	0	1	1
15	France	0	0	1	1

References

Results - men at GBRathletics.com
Results - women at GBRathletics.com
EAA

European Athletic Association championships

Outdoor Championships Indoor Championships Team Championships U23 Championships Junior Championships Youth Championships Cross Country Championships Mountain Running Championships

Outdoor	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

Indoor	1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

U23	1992 1994 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Junior	1964 1966 1968 1970 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Youth	2016

Cross Country	1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Mountain Running	1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Outdoor records European Champions men women indoor European Cups

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