1978 European 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.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

There were a number of disqualifications because of infringements of IAAF doping rules resulting in ineligibility of 18 month concerning shot putter Yevgeniy Mironov, javelin thrower Vasiliy Yershov, pentathletes Nadezhda Tkachenko and Yekaterina Gordiyenko, all competing for the Soviet Union, as well as shot putter Elena Stoyanova from Bulgaria.^[9]

Men's results

Complete results were published.^[10]

Track

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres [nb1]	Pietro Mennea  Italy	10.27	Eugen Ray  East Germany	10.36	Vladimir Ignatenko  Soviet Union	10.37
200 metres	Pietro Mennea  Italy	20.16 CR	Olaf Prenzler  East Germany	20.61	Peter Muster   Switzerland	20.64
400 metres	Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany	45.73	Karel Kolář  Czechoslovakia	45.77	Francis Demarthon  France	45.97
800 metres	Olaf Beyer  East Germany	1:43.84 CR	Steve Ovett  Great Britain	1:44.09	Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	1:44.76
1500 metres	Steve Ovett  Great Britain	3:35.59 CR	Eamonn Coghlan  Ireland	3:36.57	David Moorcroft  Great Britain	3:36.70
5000 metres	Venanzio Ortis  Italy	13:28.57	Markus Ryffel   Switzerland Aleksandr Fedotkin  Soviet Union	13:28.66
10,000 metres	Martti Vainio  Finland	27:30.99 CR, NR	Venanzio Ortis  Italy	27:31.48	Aleksandras Antipovas  Soviet Union	27:31.50
Marathon	Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union	2:11:57.5 CR	Nikolay Penzin  Soviet Union	2:11:59.0	Karel Lismont  Belgium	2:12:07.7
110 metres hurdles	Thomas Munkelt  East Germany	13.54	Jan Pusty  Poland	13.55	Arto Bryggare  Finland	13.56
400 metres hurdles	Harald Schmid  West Germany	48.51 CR	Dmitriy Stukalov  Soviet Union	49.72	Vasyl Arkhypenko  Soviet Union	49.77
3000 metres steeplechase	Bronislaw Malinowski  Poland	8:15.08	Patriz Ilg  West Germany	8:16.92	Ismo Toukonen  Finland	8:18.29
20 kilometres walk	Roland Wieser  East Germany	1:23:11.5 CR	Pyotr Pochynchuk  Soviet Union	1:23:43.0	Anatoliy Solomin  Soviet Union	1:24:11.5
50 kilometres walk	Jorge Llopart  Spain	3:53:29.9 CR	Veniamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union	3:55:12.1	Jan Ornoch  Poland	3:55:15.9
4 × 100 metres relay	Poland Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin	38.58 CR	East Germany Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme	38.78	Soviet Union Sergey Vladimirsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko	38.82
4 × 400 metres relay	West Germany Martin Weppler Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann Harald Schmid	3:02.03 CR	Poland Jerzy Włodarczyk Zbigniew Jaremski Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas	3:03.62	Czechoslovakia Josef Lomický František Brečka Miroslav Tulis Karel Kolář	3:04.99

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

Field

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Vladimir Yashchenko  Soviet Union	2.30 m CR	Aleksandr Grigoryev  Soviet Union	2.28 m	Rolf Beilschmidt  East Germany	2.28 m
Pole vault	Vladimir Trofimenko  Soviet Union	5.55 m CR	Antti Kalliomäki  Finland	5.50 m	Rauli Pudas  Finland	5.45 m
Long jump	Jacques Rousseau  France	8.18 m CR	Nenad Stekić  Yugoslavia	8.12 m	Vladimir Tsepelyov  Soviet Union	8.01 m
Triple jump	Miloš Srejović  Yugoslavia	16.94 m	Viktor Saneyev  Soviet Union	16.93 m	Anatoliy Piskulin  Soviet Union	16.87 m
†Shot put	Udo Beyer  East Germany	21.08 m =CR	Aleksandr Baryshnikov  Soviet Union	20.68 m	Wolfgang Schmidt  East Germany	20.30 m
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt  East Germany	66.82 m CR	Markku Tuokko  Finland	64.90 m	Imrich Bugár  Czechoslovakia	64.66 m
Hammer throw	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	77.28 m CR	Roland Steuk  East Germany	77.24 m	Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany	77.02 m
Javelin throw	Michael Wessing  West Germany	89.12 m	Nikolay Grebniev  Soviet Union	87.82 m	Wolfgang Hanisch  East Germany	87.66 m
Decathlon	Aleksandr Grebenyuk  Soviet Union	8340 pts CR	Daley Thompson  Great Britain	8289 pts	Siegfried Stark  East Germany	8208 pts

^†: In shot put, Yevgeniy Mironov from the Soviet Union ranked initially 2nd (20.87m), but was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.^[9]

Women's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Marlies Göhr  East Germany	11.13 =CR	Linda Haglund  Sweden	11.29	Lyudmila Maslakova  Soviet Union	11.31
200 metres	Lyudmila Kondratyeva  Soviet Union	22.52	Marlies Göhr  East Germany	22.53	Carla Bodendorf  East Germany	22.64
400 metres	Marita Koch  East Germany	48.94 CR	Christina Brehmer  East Germany	50.38	Irena Szewińska  Poland	50.40
800 metres	Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union	1:55.80 CR	Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union	1:55.82	Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union	1:56.57
1500 metres	Giana Romanova  Soviet Union	3:59.01 CR	Natalia Marasescu  Romania	3:59.77	Totka Petrova  Bulgaria	4:00.15
3000 metres	Svetlana Ulmasova  Soviet Union	8:33.16 CR	Natalia Marasescu  Romania	8:33.53	Grete Waitz  Norway	8:34.33
100 metres hurdles [nb1]	Johanna Klier  East Germany	12.62	Tatyana Anisimova  Soviet Union	12.67	Gudrun Berend  East Germany	12.73
400 metres hurdles	Tatyana Zelentsova  Soviet Union	54.89	Silvia Hollmann  West Germany	55.14	Karin Roßley  East Germany	55.36
4 × 100 metres relay	Vera Anisimova Lyudmila Maslakova Lyudmila Kondratyeva Lyudmila Storozhkova  Soviet Union	42.54	Beverley Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman  Great Britain	42.72	Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr  East Germany	43.07
4 × 400 metres relay	Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch  East Germany	3:21.20 CR	Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providokhina Mariya Kulchunova  Soviet Union	3:22.53	Małgorzata Grajewska Krystyna Kacperczyk Genowefa Błaszak Irena Szewińska  Poland	3:26.76

• ^nb1 Grażyna Rabsztyn from Poland, who didn't finished the final, run 12.60 in the semifinal, which was a new championship record.

Field

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Sara Simeoni  Italy	2.01 m CR	Rosemarie Ackermann  East Germany	1.99 m	Brigitte Holzapfel  West Germany	1.95 m
Long jump [nb1]	Vilma Bardauskienė  Soviet Union	6.88 m	Angela Voigt  East Germany	6.79 m	Jarmila Nygrýnová  Czechoslovakia	6.69 m
Shot put	Ilona Slupianek  East Germany	21.41 m CR	Helena Fibingerová  Czechoslovakia	20.86 m	Margitta Droese  East Germany	20.58 m
Discus throw	Evelin Jahl  East Germany	66.98 m	Margitta Droese  East Germany	64.04 m	Natalya Gorbachova  Soviet Union	63.58 m
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs  East Germany	69.16 m CR	Tessa Sanderson  Great Britain	62.40 m	Ute Hommola  East Germany	62.32 m
‡Pentathlon	Margit Papp  Hungary	4655 pts	Burglinde Pollak  East Germany	4600 pts	Kristine Nitzsche  East Germany	4599 pts

^‡: In pentathlon, Nadezhda Tkachenko from the Soviet Union ranked initially 1st (4744pts), but was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.^[9]

• ^nb1 Vilma Bardauskienė from Soviet Union jumped 7.09 in the qualification round, which was a new world and championship record.

Medals table

  Host nation (Czechoslovakia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	12	12	11	35
2	East Germany	12	10	10	32
3	West Germany	4	2	2	8
4	Italy	4	1	0	5
5	Poland	2	2	3	7
6	Great Britain	1	4	2	7
7	Finland	1	2	3	6
8	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
9	France	1	0	1	2
10	Hungary	1	0	0	1
10	Spain	1	0	0	1
12	Czechoslovakia	0	2	3	5
13	Romania	0	2	0	2
14	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
15	Ireland	0	1	0	1
15	Sweden	0	1	0	1
17	Belgium	0	0	1	1
17	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
17	Norway	0	0	1	1
19	Total	40	41	39	120

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.^[11] The significantly higher official number might include coaches and/or officials.

References

External links

• The EAA Official Website
• Athletix