1978 European Athletics Championships

Host City	Praha
Country	TCH
Held	29 August – 3 September 1978
Competitors	135
Countries	19

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	12	12	10	34
2	East Germany	GDR	12	10	11	33
3	Germany	GER	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

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men	Pietro Mennea	ITA	Eugen Ray	GDR	Vladimir Ignatenko	URS
200 m, Men	Pietro Mennea	ITA	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	Peter Muster	SUI
400 m, Men	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	GER	Karel Kolář	TCH	Francis Demarthon	FRA
800 m, Men	Olaf Beyer	GDR	Steve Ovett	GBR	Seb Coe	GBR
1,500 m, Men	Steve Ovett	GBR	Eamonn Coghlan	IRL	Dave Moorcroft	GBR
5,000 m, Men	Venanzio Ortis	ITA	Markus Ryffel Aleksandr Fedotkin	SUI URS
10,000 m, Men	Martti Vainio	FIN	Venanzio Ortis	ITA	Aleksandras Antipovas	URS
Marathon, Men	Leonid Moseyev	URS	Nikolay Penzin	URS	Karel Lismont	BEL
110 m Hurdles, Men	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	Jan Pusty	POL	Arto Bryggare	FIN
400 m Hurdles, Men	Harald Schmid	GER	Dmitry Stukalov	URS	Vasyl Arkhypenko	URS
3,000 m Steeplechase, Men	Bronisław Malinowski	POL	Patriz Ilg	GER	Ismo Toukonen	FIN
4 x 100 m Relay, Men	Poland	POL	East Germany	GDR	Soviet Union	URS
4 x 400 m Relay, Men	Germany	GER	Poland	POL	Czechoslovakia	TCH
20 km Walk, Men	Roland Wieser	GDR	Pyotr Pochenchuk	URS	Anatoly Solomin	URS
50 km Walk, Men	Jorge Llopart	ESP	Veniamin Soldatenko	URS	Jan Ornoch	POL
High Jump, Men	Vladimir Yashchenko	URS	Aleksandr Grigoryev	URS	Rolf Beilschmidt	GDR
Pole Vault, Men	Vladimir Trofimenko	URS	Antti Kalliomäki	FIN	Rauli Pudas	FIN
Long Jump, Men	Jacques Rousseau	FRA	Nenad Stekić	YUG	Vladimir Tsepelyov	URS
Triple Jump, Men	Miloš Srejović	YUG	Viktor Saneyev	URS	Anatoly Piskulin	URS
Shot Put, Men	Udo Beyer	GDR	Aleksandr Baryshnikov	URS	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR
Discus Throw, Men	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	Markku Tuokko	FIN	Imrich Bugár	TCH
Hammer Throw, Men	Yury Sedykh	URS	Roland Steuk	GDR	Karl-Hans Riehm	GER
Javelin Throw, Men	Michael Wessing	GER	Nikolay Grebniyev	URS	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR
Decathlon, Men	Aleksandr Grebenyuk	URS	Daley Thompson	GBR	Siegfried Stark	GDR
100 m, Women	Marlies Göhr	GDR	Linda Haglund	SWE	Lyudmila Maslakova	URS
200 m, Women	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	URS	Marlies Göhr	GDR	Carla Bodendorf	GDR
400 m, Women	Marita Koch	GDR	Christina Brehmer	GDR	Irena Szewińska	POL
800 m, Women	Tatyana Providokhina	URS	Nadezhda Mushta	URS	Zoya Rigel	URS
1,500 m, Women	Giana Romanova	URS	Natalia Mărășescu	ROU	Totka Petrova	BUL
3,000 m, Women	Svetlana Ulmasova	URS	Natalia Mărășescu	ROU	Grete Waitz	NOR
100 m Hurdles, Women	Johanna Klier	GDR	Tatyana Anisimova	URS	Gudrun Berend	GDR
400 m Hurdles, Women	Tatyana Zelentsova	URS	Silvia Hollmann	GER	Karin Roßley	GDR
4 x 100 m Relay, Women	Soviet Union	URS	Great Britain	GBR	East Germany	GDR
4 x 400 m Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	Soviet Union	URS	Poland	POL
High Jump, Women	Sara Simeoni	ITA	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	Brigitte Holzapfel	GER
Long Jump, Women	Vilhelmina Bardauskene	URS	Angela Voigt	GDR	Jarmila Nygrýnová	TCH
Shot Put, Women	Ilona Slupianek	GDR	Helena Fibingerová	TCH	Margitta Droese	GDR
Discus Throw, Women	Evelin Jahl	GDR	Margitta Droese	GDR	Nataliya Gorbachova	URS
Javelin Throw, Women	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	Tessa Sanderson	GBR	Ute Hommola	GDR
Pentathlon, Women	Margit Papp	HUN	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	Kristine Nitzsche	GDR