1978 European Athletics Championships

The logo of the 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.

Men's results

Track

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Pietro Mennea Italy	10.27	Eugen Ray East Germany	10.36	Vladimir Ignatenko Soviet Union	10.37
200 metres	Pietro Mennea Italy	20.16	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	Francois Demarthon France	45.97
800 metres	Olaf Beyer East Germany	1:43.84	Steve Ovett Great Britain	1:44.09	Sebastian Coe Great Britain	1:44.76
1500 metres	Steve Ovett Great Britain	3:35.59	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 (NR)	Venanzio Ortis Italy	27:31.48	Aleksandras Antipovas Soviet Union	27:31.50
Marathon	Leonid Moseyev Soviet Union	2:11:57.5	Nikolay Penzin Soviet Union	2:11:59.0	Karel Lismont Belgium	2:12:07.7
110 metres hurdles	Thomas Munkelt East Germany	13.44	Jan Pusty Poland	13.55	Arto Bryggare Finland	13.56
400 metres hurdles	Harald Schmid West Germany	48.51	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	Pyotr Pochenchuk Soviet Union	1:23:43.0	Anatoliy Solomin Soviet Union	1:24:11.5
50 kilometres walk	Jorge Llopart Spain	3:53:29.9	Veniamin Soldatenko Soviet Union	3:55:12.1	Jan Ornoch Poland	3:55:15.9
4x100 metres relay	Poland Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin	38.58	East Germany Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme	38.78	Soviet Union Sergey Vladimirsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko	38.82
4x400 metres relay	West Germany Martin Weppler Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann Harald Schmid	3:02.03	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

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Vladimir Yashchenko Soviet Union	2.30	Aleksandr Grigoryev Soviet Union	2.28	Rolf Beilschmidt East Germany	2.28
Long jump	Jacques Rousseau France	8.18	Nenad Stekić Yugoslavia	8.12	Vladimir Tsepelyov Soviet Union	8.01
Pole vault	Vladimir Trofimenko Soviet Union	5.55	Antti Kalliomäki Finland	5.50	Rauli Pudas Finland	5.45
Triple jump	Miloš Srejović Yugoslavia	16.94	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	16.93	Anatoliy Piskulin Soviet Union	16.87
Shot put	Udo Beyer East Germany	21.08	Yevgeny Mironov Soviet Union	20.87	Aleksandr Baryshnikov Soviet Union	20.68
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt East Germany	66.82	Markku Tuokko Finland	64.90	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia	64.66
Javelin throw	Michael Wessing West Germany	89.12	Nikolay Grebniev Soviet Union	87.82	Wolfgang Hanisch East Germany	87.66
Hammer throw	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union	77.28	Roland Steuk East Germany	77.24	Karl-Hans Riehm West Germany	77.02
Decathlon	Aleksandr Grebenyuk Soviet Union	8340	Daley Thompson Great Britain	8289	Siegfried Stark East Germany	8208

Women's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Marlies Göhr East Germany	11.13	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	Christina Brehmer East Germany	50.38	Irena Szewińska Poland	50.40
800 metres	Tatyana Providokhina Soviet Union	1:55.80	Nadezhda Mushta Soviet Union	1:55.82	Zoya Rigel Soviet Union	1:56.57
1500 metres	Giana Romanova Soviet Union	3:59.01	Natalia Marasescu Romania	3:59.77	Totka Petrova Bulgaria	4:00.15
3000 metres	Svetlana Ulmasova Soviet Union	8:33.16	Natalia Marasescu Romania	8:33.53	Grete Waitz Norway	8:34.33
100 metres hurdles	Johanna Klier East Germany	12.62	Tatyana Anisimova Soviet Union	12.67	Gudrun Berend East Germany	12.73
400 metres hurdles	Tatiana Zelentsova Soviet Union	54.89	Silvia Hollmann West Germany	55.14	Karin Roßley East Germany	55.36
4x100 metres relay	Vera Anisimova Lyudmila Maslakova Lyudmila Kondratyeva Liudmila Storoshkova 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
4x400 metres relay	Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch East Germany	3:21.20	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

Field

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

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

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

External links and references

• The EAA Official Website
• Athletix