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<br>||10.27||Eugen Ray<br> ||10.36||Vladimir Ignatenko<br>||10.37
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|||Pietro Mennea<br>||20.16 ||Olaf Prenzler<br>||20.61||Peter Muster<br>||20.64
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|||Franz-Peter Hofmeister<br>||45.73||Karel Kolář<br> ||45.77||Francis Demarthon<br>||45.97
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|||Olaf Beyer<br>||1:43.84 ||Steve Ovett<br>||1:44.09||Sebastian Coe<br>||1:44.76
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|||Steve Ovett<br>||3:35.59 ||Eamonn Coghlan<br>||3:36.57||David Moorcroft<br>||3:36.70
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|||Venanzio Ortis<br>||13:28.57||Markus Ryffel<br><br>Aleksandr Fedotkin<br>||13:28.66||||
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|||Martti Vainio<br>||27:30.99 , NR||Venanzio Ortis<br>||27:31.48||Aleksandras Antipovas<br>||27:31.50
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|||Leonid Moseyev<br>||2:11:57.5 ||Nikolay Penzin<br>||2:11:59.0||Karel Lismont<br>||2:12:07.7
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|||Thomas Munkelt<br>||13.54||Jan Pusty<br>||13.55||Arto Bryggare<br>||13.56
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|||Harald Schmid<br>||48.51 ||Dmitriy Stukalov<br>||49.72||Vasyl Arkhypenko<br>||49.77
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|||Bronislaw Malinowski<br>||8:15.08||Patriz Ilg<br>||8:16.92||Ismo Toukonen<br>||8:18.29
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|||Roland Wieser<br>||1:23:11.5 ||Pyotr Pochynchuk<br>||1:23:43.0||Anatoliy Solomin<br>||1:24:11.5
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|||Jorge Llopart<br>||3:53:29.9 ||Veniamin Soldatenko<br>||3:55:12.1||Jan Ornoch<br>||3:55:15.9
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|||<br>Zenon Nowosz <br> Zenon Licznerski <br> Leszek Dunecki <br> Marian Woronin ||38.58 ||<br>Manfred Kokot <br> Eugen Ray <br> Olaf Prenzler <br> Alexander Thieme ||38.78||<br>Sergey Vladimirtsev <br> Nikolay Kolesnikov <br> Aleksandr Aksinin <br> Vladimir Ignatenko ||38.82
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|||<br>Martin Weppler <br> Franz-Peter Hofmeister <br> Bernd Herrmann <br> Harald Schmid ||3:02.03 ||<br> Jerzy Włodarczyk <br> Zbigniew Jaremski <br> Cezary Łapiński <br> Ryszard Podlas ||3:03.62||<br>Josef Lomický <br> František Brečka <br> Miroslav Tulis <br> Karel Kolář ||3:04.99
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- Pietro Mennea ran 10.19 in the heats, which was a new championship record.
Field
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|||Vladimir Yashchenko<br>||2.30 m ||Aleksandr Grigoryev<br>||2.28 m||Rolf Beilschmidt<br>||2.28 m
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|||Vladimir Trofimenko<br>||5.55 m ||Antti Kalliomäki<br>||5.50 m||Rauli Pudas<br>||5.45 m
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|||Jacques Rousseau<br>||8.18 m ||Nenad Stekić<br>||8.12 m||Vladimir Tsepelyov<br>||8.01 m
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|||Miloš Srejović<br>||16.94 m||Viktor Saneyev<br>||16.93 m||Anatoliy Piskulin<br>||16.87 m
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|<sup>†</sup>||Udo Beyer<br>||21.08 m =||Aleksandr Baryshnikov<br>||20.68 m||Wolfgang Schmidt<br>||20.30 m
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|||Wolfgang Schmidt<br>||66.82 m ||Markku Tuokko<br>||64.90 m||Imrich Bugár<br>||64.66 m
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|||Yuriy Sedykh<br>||77.28 m ||Roland Steuk<br>||77.24 m||Karl-Hans Riehm<br>||77.02 m
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|||Michael Wessing<br>||89.12 m||Nikolay Grebniev<br>||87.82 m||Wolfgang Hanisch<br>||87.66 m
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|||Aleksandr Grebenyuk<br>||8340 pts ||Daley Thompson<br>||8289 pts||Siegfried Stark<br>||8208 pts
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<sup>†</sup>: In shot put, Yevgeniy Mironov initially finished second (20.87m), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules. The significantly higher official number might include coaches and/or officials.
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References
External links
- The EAA Official Website