1978 European Athletics Championships
The 12th European Athletics Championships were held from August 29 to September 3, 1978 in Prague.
We have set four new world records: Tatjana Selenzowa from the Soviet Union managed the 400 - meter hurdles in 54.89 s Vilma Bardauskienė (Soviet Union) reached in the long jump qualifying a width of 7.09 m. Marita Koch ( GDR ) ran 400 meters in 48.94 s The Italian Sara Simeoni jumped 2.01 m high and thus equaled the existing world record. There was also a new European record: Ruth Fuchs from East Germany threw the javelin 69.16 meters wide.
- 2.1 100 m
- 2.2 200 m
- 2.3 400 m
- 2.4 800 m
- 2.5 1500 m
- 2.6 3000 m
- 2.7 100m Hurdles
- 2.8 400m hurdles
- 2.9 4 x 100 m relay
- 2:10 4 x 400 m relay
- 2:11 High Jump
- 2:12 Long Jump
- 2:13 Shot Put
- 2:14 Discus Throw
- 2:15 Javelin
- 2:16 Pentathlon
100 m
Date: August 30
200 m
Date: September 1,
400 m
Date: September 1,
800 m
Date: 31 August
1500 m
Date: September 3,
5000 m
Date: September 2,
10,000 m
Date: August 29
Marathon
Date: September 3,
110 m hurdles
Date: September 3,
400m hurdles
Date: 31 August
3000 m steeplechase
Date: September 3,
4 x 100 m relay
Date: September 3,
4 x 400 m relay
Date: September 3,
20 km Go
Date: August 30
50 km Go
Date: September 2,
High Jump
Date: September 2,
Long-jump
Date: September 2,
Pole vault
Date: September 1,
Triple Jump
Date: September 3,
Shot Put
Date: September 1,
Discus
Date: September 3,
Hammer Throw
Date: September 2,
Javelin
Date: August 30
Decathlon
Date: 30-31. August Scoring of 1964
Women
100 m
Date: August 30
200 m
Date: September 1,
400 m
Date: 31 August
800 m
Date: 31 August
1500 m
Date: September 3,
3000 m
Date: August 29
100m Hurdles
Date: September 2,
400m hurdles
Date: September 2,
4 x 100 m relay
Date: September 3,
4 x 400 m relay
Date: September 3,
High Jump
Date: 31 August
Long-jump
Date: August 30
In the qualification Vilma Bardauskienė had set up with a new world record 7.09 meters.
Shot Put
Date: August 30
Discus
Date: September 1,
Javelin
Date: September 1,
Pentathlon
Date: 1 / 2 September Scoring of 1977
Originally Nadezhda Tkachenko won with 4744 points. The gold medal was subsequently stripped of her but because of doping.
Explanations
- WR: World Record
- ER: European Record
- EMR: European Championship record
- DR: German record
- BR: Record of the Federal Republic of Germany
- E: equalized
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