1978 European Athletics Championships

Template:Infobox Athletics Championships The 12th European Athletics Championships were held from 29 August to 3 September 1978 in the Stadion Evžena Rošického in Prague, the capital city of Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.

There were a number of disqualifications because of infringements of IAAF doping rules resulting in 18-month bans for shot putter Yevgeniy Mironov, javelin thrower Vasiliy Yershov, and pentathletes Nadiya Tkachenko and Yekaterina Gordiyenko, all competing for the Soviet Union, as well as shot putter Elena Stoyanova from Bulgaria.

Men's results

Complete results were published.

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Pietro Mennea Template:Flagu	10.27[nb1]	Eugen Ray Template:GDR	10.36	Vladimir Ignatenko	10.37
Template:AthleticsLink	Pietro Mennea Template:Flagu	20.16 Template:AthAbbr	Olaf Prenzler Template:GDR	20.61	Peter Muster Template:Flagu	20.64
Template:AthleticsLink	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	45.73	Karel Kolář	45.77	Francis Demarthon Template:Flagu	45.97
Template:AthleticsLink	Olaf Beyer Template:GDR	1:43.84 Template:AthAbbr	Steve Ovett Template:Flagu	1:44.09	Sebastian Coe Template:Flagu	1:44.76
Template:AthleticsLink	Steve Ovett Template:Flagu	3:35.59 Template:AthAbbr	Eamonn Coghlan	3:36.57	David Moorcroft Template:Flagu	3:36.70
Template:AthleticsLink	Venanzio Ortis Template:Flagu	13:28.57	Markus Ryffel Template:Flagu Aleksandr Fedotkin	13:28.66
Template:AthleticsLink	Martti Vainio	27:30.99 Template:AthAbbr, NR	Venanzio Ortis Template:Flagu	27:31.48	Aleksandras Antipovas	27:31.50
Template:AthleticsLink	Leonid Moseyev	2:11:57.5 Template:AthAbbr	Nikolay Penzin	2:11:59.0	Karel Lismont Template:Flagu	2:12:07.7
Template:AthleticsLink	Thomas Munkelt Template:GDR	13.54	Jan Pusty Template:Flagu	13.55	Arto Bryggare	13.56
Template:AthleticsLink	Harald Schmid	48.51 Template:AthAbbr	Dmitriy Stukalov	49.72	Vasyl Arkhypenko	49.77
Template:AthleticsLink	Bronislaw Malinowski Template:Flagu	8:15.08	Patriz Ilg	8:16.92	Ismo Toukonen	8:18.29
Template:AthleticsLink	Roland Wieser Template:GDR	1:23:11.5 Template:AthAbbr	Pyotr Pochynchuk	1:23:43.0	Anatoliy Solomin	1:24:11.5
Template:AthleticsLink	Jorge Llopart Template:Flagu	3:53:29.9 Template:AthAbbr	Veniamin Soldatenko	3:55:12.1	Jan Ornoch Template:Flagu	3:55:15.9
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagu Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin	38.58 Template:AthAbbr	Template:GDR Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme	38.78	Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko	38.82
Template:AthleticsLink	Martin Weppler Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann Harald Schmid	3:02.03 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagu Jerzy Włodarczyk Zbigniew Jaremski Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas	3:03.62	Josef Lomický František Brečka Miroslav Tulis Karel Kolář	3:04.99

• ^nb1 Pietro Mennea ran 10.19 in the heats, which was a new championship record.

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Vladimir Yashchenko	2.30 m Template:AthAbbr	Aleksandr Grigoryev	2.28 m	Rolf Beilschmidt Template:GDR	2.28 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Vladimir Trofimenko	5.55 m Template:AthAbbr	Antti Kalliomäki	5.50 m	Rauli Pudas	5.45 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Jacques Rousseau Template:Flagu	8.18 m Template:AthAbbr	Nenad Stekić	8.12 m	Vladimir Tsepelyov	8.01 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Miloš Srejović	16.94 m	Viktor Saneyev	16.93 m	Anatoliy Piskulin	16.87 m
†Template:AthleticsLink	Udo Beyer Template:GDR	21.08 m =Template:AthAbbr	Aleksandr Baryshnikov	20.68 m	Wolfgang Schmidt Template:GDR	20.30 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Wolfgang Schmidt Template:GDR	66.82 m Template:AthAbbr	Markku Tuokko	64.90 m	Imrich Bugár	64.66 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Yuriy Sedykh	77.28 m Template:AthAbbr	Roland Steuk Template:GDR	77.24 m	Karl-Hans Riehm	77.02 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Michael Wessing	89.12 m	Nikolay Grebniev	87.82 m	Wolfgang Hanisch Template:GDR	87.66 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Aleksandr Grebenyuk	8340 pts Template:AthAbbr	Daley Thompson Template:Flagu	8289 pts	Siegfried Stark Template:GDR	8208 pts

^†: In shot put, Yevgeniy Mironov initially finished second (20.87m), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.

Women's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Marlies Göhr Template:GDR	11.13 =Template:AthAbbr	Linda Haglund Template:Flagu	11.29	Lyudmila Maslakova	11.31
Template:AthleticsLink	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	22.52	Marlies Göhr Template:GDR	22.53	Carla Bodendorf Template:GDR	22.64
Template:AthleticsLink	Marita Koch Template:GDR	48.94 Template:AthAbbr	Christina Brehmer Template:GDR	50.38	Irena Szewińska Template:Flagu	50.40
Template:AthleticsLink	Tatyana Providokhina	1:55.80 Template:AthAbbr	Nadezhda Mushta	1:55.82	Zoya Rigel	1:56.57
Template:AthleticsLink	Giana Romanova	3:59.01 Template:AthAbbr	Natalia Mărășescu Romania	3:59.77	Totka Petrova Bulgaria	4:00.15
Template:AthleticsLink	Svetlana Ulmasova	8:33.16 Template:AthAbbr	Natalia Mărășescu Romania	8:33.53	Grete Waitz	8:34.33
Template:AthleticsLink[nb1]	Johanna Klier Template:GDR	12.62	Tatyana Anisimova	12.67	Gudrun Berend Template:GDR	12.73
Template:AthleticsLink	Tatyana Zelentsova	54.89	Silvia Hollmann	55.14	Karin Roßley Template:GDR	55.36
Template:AthleticsLink	Vera Anisimova Lyudmila Maslakova Lyudmila Kondratyeva Lyudmila Storozhkova	42.54	Beverley Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman Template:Flagu	42.72	Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr Template:GDR	43.07
Template:AthleticsLink	Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch Template:GDR	3:21.20 Template:AthAbbr	Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providokhina Mariya Kulchunova	3:22.53	Małgorzata Grajewska Krystyna Kacperczyk Genowefa Błaszak Irena Szewińska Template:Flagu	3:26.76

• ^nb1 Grażyna Rabsztyn (Poland), who was disqualified in the final, ran a championship record of 12.60 in the semifinal.

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Sara Simeoni Template:Flagu	2.01 m WR= – Template:AthAbbr	Rosemarie Ackermann Template:GDR	1.99 m	Brigitte Holzapfel	1.95 m
Template:AthleticsLink [nb1]	Vilma Bardauskienė	6.88 m	Angela Voigt Template:GDR	6.79 m	Jarmila Nygrýnová	6.69 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Ilona Slupianek Template:GDR	21.41 m Template:AthAbbr	Helena Fibingerová	20.86 m	Margitta Droese Template:GDR	20.58 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Evelin Jahl Template:GDR	66.98 m	Margitta Droese Template:GDR	64.04 m	Natalya Gorbachova	63.58 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Ruth Fuchs Template:GDR	69.16 m Template:AthAbbr	Tessa Sanderson Template:Flagu	62.40 m	Ute Hommola Template:GDR	62.32 m
‡Template:AthleticsLink	Margit Papp	4655 pts	Burglinde Pollak Template:GDR	4600 pts	Kristine Nitzsche Template:GDR	4599 pts

^‡: In pentathlon, Nadiya Tkachenko (URS) initially finished 1st (4744pts), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.

• ^nb1 Vilma Bardauskienė broke the world record with a jump 7.09 metres in the qualification round.

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 847 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event, 157 athletes less than the official number of 1004, and one country more than the official number of 29 as published. The significantly higher official number might include coaches and/or officials.

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External links

• The EAA Official Website
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