1978 European Athletics Championships

The 12th European Athletics Championships were held from 29 August to 3 September 1978 in Prague, the capital city of Czechoslovakia.

Men's results

Track

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Pietro Mennea  Italy	10.27	Eugen Ray  East Germany	10.36	Vladimir Ignatienko  Soviet Union	10.31
200 m	Pietro Mennea  Italy	20.16	Olaf Prenzler  East Germany	20.61	Peter Muster  Switzerland	20.64
400 m	Franz-Peter Hofmeister  West Germany	45.73	Karel Kolář  Czechoslovakia	45.77	Francois Demarthon  France	45.97
800 m	Olaf Beyer  East Germany	1:43.84	Steve Ovett  United Kingdom	1:44.09	Sebastian Coe  United Kingdom	1:44.76
1500 m Details	Steve Ovett  United Kingdom	3:35.59	Eamonn Coghlan  Ireland	3:36.57	David Moorcroft  United Kingdom	3:36.70
5000 m	Venanzio Ortis  Italy	13:28.57	Markus Ryffel  Switzerland Aleksandr Fedotkin  Soviet Union	13:28.66
10 000 m	Martti Vainio  Finland	27:30.99 (NR)	Venanzio Ortis  Italy	27:31.48	Aleksandr Antipov  Soviet Union	27:31.50
Marathon	Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union	2:11:57.5	Nikolae Penzin  Soviet Union	2:11:59.0	Karel Lismont  Belgium	2:12:07.7
110 m h	Thomas Munkelt  East Germany	13.44	Jan Pusty  Poland	13.55	Arto Bryggare  Finland	13.56
400 m h	Harald Schmid  West Germany	48.51	Dmitriy Stukalov  Soviet Union	49.72	Vasiliy Arkhipenko  Soviet Union	49.77
3000 m st	Bronislaw Malinowski  Poland	8:15.08	Patriz Ilg  West Germany	8:16.92	Ismo Toukonen  Finland	8:18.29
20 km walk	Ronald Wieser  East Germany	1:23:11.5	Pyotr Pochenchuk  Soviet Union	1:23:43.0	Anatoly Solomin  Soviet Union	1:24:11.5
50 km walk	Jorge Llopart  Spain	3:53:29.9	Veniamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union	3:55:12.1	Jan Ornoch  Poland	3:55:15.9
4 X 100 m	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 Nikolai Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko	38.82
4 X 400 m	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	Yevgeni Mironov  Soviet Union	20.87	Aleksandr Baryshnikov  Soviet Union	20.68
Discus	Wolfgang Schmidt  East Germany	66.82	Markku Tuokko  Finland	64.90	Imrich Bugár  Czechoslovakia	64.66
Javelin	Michael Wessing  West Germany	89.12	Nikolay Grebniev  Soviet Union	87.82	Wolfgang Hanisch  East Germany	87.66
Hammer	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  United Kingdom	8289	Siegfried Stark  East Germany	8208

Women's results

Track

1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Marlies Göhr  East Germany	11.13	Linda Haglund  Sweden	11.29	Lyudmila Maslakova  Soviet Union	11.31
200 m	Lyudmila Kondratyeva  Soviet Union	22.52	Marlies Göhr  East Germany	22.53	Carla Bodendorf  East Germany	22.64
400 m	Marita Koch  East Germany	48.94	Christina Brehmer  East Germany	50.38	Irena Szewińska  Poland	50.40
800 m	Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union	1:55.80	Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union	1:55.82	Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union	1:56.57
1500 m	Gyana Romanova  Soviet Union	3:59.8	Natalia Marasescu  Romania	3:58.77	Totka Petrova  Bulgaria	4:00.15
3000 m	Svetlana Ulmasova  Soviet Union	8:33.16	Natalia Marasescu  Romania	8:33.53	Grete Waitz Norway	8:34.33
100 m h	Johanna Klier  East Germany	12.62	Tatiana Anisimova  Soviet Union	12.67	Gudrun Berend  East Germany	12.73
400 m h	Tatiana Zelentsova  Soviet Union	54.89	Silvia Hollmann  West Germany	55.14	Karin Rossley  East Germany	55.36
4 X 100 m	Soviet Union Vera Anisimova Liudmila Maslakova Liudmila Kondratyeva Liudmila Storoshkova	42.54	United Kingdom Beverley Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman	42.72	East Germany Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr	43.07
4 X 400 m	East Germany Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch	3:21.20	Soviet Union Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providochina Maria Kulchunova	3:22.53	Poland Małgorzata Grajewska Krystyna Kacperczyk Genowefa Błaszak Irena Szewińska	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 Bardauskiené  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	Evelin Jahl  East Germany	66.98	Margitta Droese  East Germany	64.04	Natalya Gorbachova  Soviet Union	63.58
Javelin	Ruth Fuchs  East Germany	69.16	Tessa Sanderson  United Kingdom	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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Soviet Union	12	11	12	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.	United Kingdom	1	4	2	7
7.	Finland	1	2	3	6
8.	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
9.	France	1	0	1	2
10=	Spain	1	0	0	1
10=	Hungary	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

External links and references

• The EAA Official Website
• Athletix