1978 European Athletics Championships
12th European Athletics Championships | |
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Dates | 29 August – 3 September 1978 |
Host city | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Venue | Stadion Evžena Rošického |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
Events | 40 |
Participation | 1004 athletes from 29 nations |
1982 Athens → |
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 Nadiya Tkachenko and , 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 | |||
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100 metres |
Pietro Mennea Italy |
10.27[nb1] | 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 | 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 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 Zbigniew Jaremski Ryszard Podlas |
3:03.62 | Czechoslovakia Josef Lomický Miroslav Tulis Karel Kolář |
3:04.99 |
- nb1 Pietro Mennea ran 10.19 in the heats, which was a new championship record.
Field[]
1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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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 | 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 initially finished second (20.87m), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.[9]
Women's results[]
Track[]
1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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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 WR - 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 | 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 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 (Poland), who was disqualified in the final, ran a championship record of 12.60 in the semifinal.
Field[]
1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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High jump |
Sara Simeoni Italy |
2.01 m WR= - 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, Nadiya Tkachenko (URS) initially finished 1st (4744pts), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.[9]
- nb1 Vilma Bardauskienė broke the world record with a jump 7.09 metres in the qualification round.
Medal table[]
* Host nation (Czechoslovakia)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 12 | 12 | 11 | 35 |
2 | East Germany (GDR) | 12 | 10 | 10 | 32 |
3 | West Germany (FRG) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
4 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
5 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
7 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
8 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
9 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
10 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | Czechoslovakia (TCH)* | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
13 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
14 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
15 | Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
17 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (19 nations) | 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.
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References[]
- ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 29, 1978), Moscow Czechmate?, Glasgow Herald, p. 23, retrieved September 13, 2014
- ^ Hostility flares in 'peace' Games, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1978, p. 22, retrieved November 24, 2014
- ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 30, 1978), Wells faster than Borzow ... but watch Mennea, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 13, 2014
- ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 30, 1978), Foster run out of the medals, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 13, 2014
- ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 31, 1978), Beaten, now Wells may not run 200, Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
- ^ Hubbard, Alan (August 31, 1978), Come to Russia, with love..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
- ^ Hubbard, Alan (September 1, 1978), Ovett, Coe and Thompson lose, Glasgow Herald, p. 28, retrieved September 13, 2014
- ^ Hubbard, Alan (September 4, 1978), Gold at last - thanks to Ovett, Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
- ^ Jump up to: 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
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
External links[]
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