1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

at the 1978 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's marathon at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 3 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union
Silver	Soviet Union
Bronze	Karel Lismont  Belgium

Results[]

Final[]

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Leonid Moseyev	Soviet Union	2:11:57.5	CR
		Soviet Union	2:11:59.0
	Karel Lismont	Belgium	2:12:07.7
4	Waldemar Cierpinski	East Germany	2:12:20.0
5		Romania	2:12:29.4	NR
6	Massimo Magnani	Italy	2:12:45.3
7	Hans-Joachim Truppel	East Germany	2:12:54.3
8	Jürgen Eberding	East Germany	2:13:39.7
9		Great Britain	2:14:31.7
10		Greece	2:14:41.3
11	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov	Soviet Union	2:14:43.3
12	Göran Bengtsson	Sweden	2:15:01.9
13	Tony Simmons	Great Britain	2:15:31.5
14	Ferenc Szekeres	Hungary	2:15:45.0
15	Ryszard Marczak	Poland	2:15:47.8
16	Michelangelo Arena	Italy	2:16:09.2
17	Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer	Czechoslovakia	2:16:37.6
18	Henri Schoofs	Belgium	2:16:49.5
19	Josef Jánský	Czechoslovakia	2:16:53.0
20		West Germany	2:16:56.3
21		Belgium	2:17:24.5
22		Netherlands	2:17:32.8
23		France	2:17:48.0
24		Finland	2:18:17.8
25		Great Britain	2:18:44.5
26		Spain	2:19:26.4
27	Patrick Hooper	Ireland	2:20:28.5
28		Portugal	2:20:49.4
29	Richard Hooper	Ireland	2:21:00.2
30	Cor Vriend	Netherlands	2:21:25.2
31		Norway	2:21:35.1
32		Turkey	2:22:47.4
33	Jørn Lauenborg	Denmark	2:23:14.8
34		Netherlands	2:23:38.3
35		Hungary	2:23:39.7
36	Veli Ballı	Turkey	2:25:56.2
37		Greece	2:32:16.9
		Italy	DNF
		Denmark	DNF
		Sweden	DNF
	Jan Fjærestad	Norway	DNF
		Denmark	DNF
		Czechoslovakia	DNF
		Poland	DNF
	Håkan Spik	Finland	DNF
	Aniceto Simões	Portugal	DNF
	Fernand Kolbeck	France	DNF
	Øyvind Dahl	Norway	DNF
		West Germany	DNF

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 49 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

References[]