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1978 European Athletics Championships

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12th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1978 European Athletics Championships
Dates29 August – 3 September
Host cityPrague, Czechoslovakia
VenueStadion Evžena Rošického
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events40
Participation1004 athletes from
29 nations

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 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.[9]

Men's results

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Complete results were published.[10]

Track

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1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Pietro Mennea
 Italy
10.27[nb1] Eugen Ray
 East Germany
10.36 Vladimir Ignatenko
 Soviet Union
10.37
200 metres
details
Pietro Mennea
 Italy
20.16 CR Olaf Prenzler
 East Germany
20.61 Peter Muster
  Switzerland
20.64
400 metres
details
Franz-Peter Hofmeister
 West Germany
45.73 Karel Kolář
 Czechoslovakia
45.77 Francis Demarthon
 France
45.97
800 metres
details
Olaf Beyer
 East Germany
1:43.84 CR Steve Ovett
 Great Britain
1:44.09 Sebastian Coe
 Great Britain
1:44.76
1500 metres
details
Steve Ovett
 Great Britain
3:35.59 CR Eamonn Coghlan
 Ireland
3:36.57 David Moorcroft
 Great Britain
3:36.70
5000 metres
details
Venanzio Ortis
 Italy
13:28.57 Markus Ryffel
  Switzerland
Aleksandr Fedotkin
 Soviet Union
13:28.66
10,000 metres
details
Martti Vainio
 Finland
27:30.99 CR, NR Venanzio Ortis
 Italy
27:31.48 Aleksandras Antipovas
 Soviet Union
27:31.50
Marathon
details
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
details
Thomas Munkelt
 East Germany
13.54 Jan Pusty
 Poland
13.55 Arto Bryggare
 Finland
13.56
400 metres hurdles
details
Harald Schmid
 West Germany
48.51 CR Dmitriy Stukalov
 Soviet Union
49.72 Vasyl Arkhypenko
 Soviet Union
49.77
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Bronislaw Malinowski
 Poland
8:15.08 Patriz Ilg
 West Germany
8:16.92 Ismo Toukonen
 Finland
8:18.29
20 kilometres walk
details
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
details
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
details
 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 Vladimirtsev
Nikolay Kolesnikov
Aleksandr Aksinin
Vladimir Ignatenko
38.82
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 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

Field

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

: In shot put, Yevgeniy Mironov initially finished second (20.87m), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.[9]

Women's results

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Track

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Marlies Göhr
 East Germany
11.13 =CR Linda Haglund
 Sweden
11.29 Lyudmila Maslakova
 Soviet Union
11.31
200 metres
details
Lyudmila Kondratyeva
 Soviet Union
22.52 Marlies Göhr
 East Germany
22.53 Carla Bodendorf
 East Germany
22.64
400 metres
details
Marita Koch
 East Germany
48.94 WR – CR Christina Brehmer
 East Germany
50.38 Irena Szewińska
 Poland
50.40
800 metres
details
Tatyana Providokhina
 Soviet Union
1:55.80 CR Nadezhda Mushta
 Soviet Union
1:55.82 Zoya Rigel
 Soviet Union
1:56.57
1500 metres
details
Giana Romanova
 Soviet Union
3:59.01 CR Natalia Mărășescu
 Romania
3:59.77 Totka Petrova
 Bulgaria
4:00.15
3000 metres
details
Svetlana Ulmasova
 Soviet Union
8:33.16 CR Natalia Mărășescu
 Romania
8:33.53 Grete Waitz
 Norway
8:34.33
100 metres hurdles
details[nb1]
Johanna Klier
 East Germany
12.62 Tatyana Anisimova
 Soviet Union
12.67 Gudrun Berend
 East Germany
12.73
400 metres hurdles
details
Tatyana Zelentsova
 Soviet Union
54.89 Silvia Hollmann
 West Germany
55.14 Karin Roßley
 East Germany
55.36
4 × 100 metres relay
details
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
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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 (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
High jump
details
Sara Simeoni
 Italy
2.01 m WR= – CR Rosemarie Ackermann
 East Germany
1.99 m Brigitte Holzapfel
 West Germany
1.95 m
Long jump
details [nb1]
Vilma Bardauskienė
 Soviet Union
6.88 m Angela Voigt
 East Germany
6.79 m Jarmila Nygrýnová
 Czechoslovakia
6.69 m
Shot put
details
Ilona Slupianek
 East Germany
21.41 m CR Helena Fibingerová
 Czechoslovakia
20.86 m Margitta Droese
 East Germany
20.58 m
Discus throw
details
Evelin Jahl
 East Germany
66.98 m Margitta Droese
 East Germany
64.04 m Natalya Gorbachova
 Soviet Union
63.58 m
Javelin throw
details
Ruth Fuchs
 East Germany
69.16 m CR Tessa Sanderson
 Great Britain
62.40 m Ute Hommola
 East Germany
62.32 m
Pentathlon
details
Margit Papp
 Hungary
4655 pts Burglinde Pollak
 East Germany
4600 pts Kristine Nitzsche
 East Germany
4599 pts

: In pentathlon, Nadiya Tkachenko (URS) initially finished 1st (4744pts), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.[9]

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Czechoslovakia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)12121034
2 East Germany (GDR)12101133
3 West Germany (FRG)4228
4 Italy (ITA)4105
5 Poland (POL)2237
6 Great Britain (GBR)1427
7 Finland (FIN)1236
8 Yugoslavia (YUG)1102
9 France (FRA)1012
10 Hungary (HUN)1001
 Spain (ESP)1001
12 Czechoslovakia (TCH)*0235
13 Romania (ROU)0202
14 Switzerland (SUI)0112
15 Ireland (IRL)0101
 Sweden (SWE)0101
17 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Bulgaria (BUL)0011
 Norway (NOR)0011
Totals (19 entries)404139120

Participation

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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

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  1. ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 29, 1978), Moscow Czechmate?, Glasgow Herald, p. 23, retrieved September 13, 2014
  2. ^ Hostility flares in 'peace' Games, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1978, p. 22, retrieved November 24, 2014
  3. ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 30, 1978), Wells faster than Borzow ... but watch Mennea, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 13, 2014
  4. ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 30, 1978), Foster run out of the medals, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 13, 2014
  5. ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 31, 1978), Beaten, now Wells may not run 200, Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
  6. ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 31, 1978), Come to Russia, with love..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
  7. ^ Hubbard, Alan (September 1, 1978), Ovett, Coe and Thompson lose, Glasgow Herald, p. 28, retrieved September 13, 2014
  8. ^ Hubbard, Alan (September 4, 1978), "Gold at last – thanks to Ovett", Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
  9. ^ a b c Holt, John B. (April 26–28, 1979), International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) - Main Decisions of the IAAF Council, Meeting in Dakar (SEN), April 26th, 27th and 28th 1979 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 353–354, archived from the original (PDF) on July 25, 2018, retrieved September 13, 2014
  10. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014
  11. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
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