1978 European Athletics Championships Explained

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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	Pietro Mennea	10.27	Eugen Ray	10.36	Vladimir Ignatenko	10.37
	Pietro Mennea	20.16	Olaf Prenzler	20.61	Peter Muster	20.64
	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	45.73	Karel Kolář	45.77	Francis Demarthon	45.97
	Olaf Beyer	1:43.84	Steve Ovett	1:44.09	Sebastian Coe	1:44.76
	Steve Ovett	3:35.59	Eamonn Coghlan	3:36.57	David Moorcroft	3:36.70
	Venanzio Ortis	13:28.57	Markus Ryffel Aleksandr Fedotkin	13:28.66
	Martti Vainio	27:30.99, NR	Venanzio Ortis	27:31.48	Aleksandras Antipovas	27:31.50
	Leonid Moseyev	2:11:57.5	Nikolay Penzin	2:11:59.0	Karel Lismont	2:12:07.7
	Thomas Munkelt	13.54	Jan Pusty	13.55	Arto Bryggare	13.56
	Harald Schmid	48.51	Dmitriy Stukalov	49.72	Vasyl Arkhypenko	49.77
	Bronislaw Malinowski	8:15.08	Patriz Ilg	8:16.92	Ismo Toukonen	8:18.29
	Roland Wieser	1:23:11.5	Pyotr Pochynchuk	1:23:43.0	Anatoliy Solomin	1:24:11.5
	Jorge Llopart	3:53:29.9	Veniamin Soldatenko	3:55:12.1	Jan Ornoch	3:55:15.9
		38.58		38.78		38.82
		3:02.03		3:03.62		3:04.99

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

Field

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	Vladimir Yashchenko	2.30 m	Aleksandr Grigoryev	2.28 m	Rolf Beilschmidt	2.28 m
	Vladimir Trofimenko	5.55 m	Antti Kalliomäki	5.50 m	Rauli Pudas	5.45 m
	Jacques Rousseau	8.18 m	Nenad Stekić	8.12 m	Vladimir Tsepelyov	8.01 m
	Miloš Srejović	16.94 m	Viktor Saneyev	16.93 m	Anatoliy Piskulin	16.87 m
†	Udo Beyer	21.08 m =	Aleksandr Baryshnikov	20.68 m	Wolfgang Schmidt	20.30 m
	Wolfgang Schmidt	66.82 m	Markku Tuokko	64.90 m	Imrich Bugár	64.66 m
	Yuriy Sedykh	77.28 m	Roland Steuk	77.24 m	Karl-Hans Riehm	77.02 m
	Michael Wessing	89.12 m	Nikolay Grebniev	87.82 m	Wolfgang Hanisch	87.66 m
	Aleksandr Grebenyuk	8340 pts	Daley Thompson	8289 pts	Siegfried Stark	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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	Marlies Göhr	11.13 =	Linda Haglund	11.29	Lyudmila Maslakova	11.31
	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	22.52	Marlies Göhr	22.53	Carla Bodendorf	22.64
	Marita Koch	48.94	Christina Brehmer	50.38	Irena Szewińska	50.40
	Tatyana Providokhina	1:55.80	Nadezhda Mushta	1:55.82	Zoya Rigel	1:56.57
	Giana Romanova	3:59.01	Natalia Mărășescu Romania	3:59.77	Totka Petrova Bulgaria	4:00.15
	Svetlana Ulmasova	8:33.16	Natalia Mărășescu Romania	8:33.53	Grete Waitz	8:34.33
	Johanna Klier	12.62	Tatyana Anisimova	12.67	Gudrun Berend	12.73
	Tatyana Zelentsova	54.89	Silvia Hollmann	55.14	Karin Roßley	55.36
	Vera Anisimova Lyudmila Maslakova Lyudmila Kondratyeva Lyudmila Storozhkova	42.54	Beverley Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman	42.72	Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr	43.07
	Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch	3:21.20	Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providokhina Mariya Kulchunova	3:22.53	Małgorzata Grajewska Krystyna Kacperczyk Genowefa Błaszak Irena Szewińska	3:26.76

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

Field

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

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

• 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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• Spain (16)
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External links

• The EAA Official Website
• Athletix