1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Host City	Milano
Country	ITA
Held	11 – 12 March 1978
Competitors	57
Countries	16

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	GDR	4	3	3	10
2	Soviet Union	URS	4	2	6	12
3	Finland	FIN	3	0	0	3
4	Italy	ITA	2	1	1	4
5	Czechoslovakia	TCH	2	0	0	2
6	Poland	POL	1	3	1	5
7	Romania	ROU	1	1	1	3
8	Hungary	HUN	1	1	0	2
9	Switzerland	SUI	1	0	0	1
10	Germany	GER	0	2	3	5
11	Belgium	BEL	0	2	0	2
=	Bulgaria	BUL	0	2	0	2
13	Great Britain	GBR	0	1	2	3
14	Sweden	SWE	0	1	0	1
15	Austria	AUT	0	0	1	1
=	France	FRA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
60 m, Men	Nikolay Kolesnikov	URS	Petar Petrov	BUL	Aleksandr Aksinin	URS
400 m, Men	Pietro Mennea	ITA	Ryszard Podlas	POL	Nikolay Chernetsky	URS
800 m, Men	Markku Taskinen	FIN	Olaf Beyer	GDR	Roger Milhau	FRA
1,500 m, Men	Antti Loikkanen	FIN	Thomas Wessinghage	GER	Jürgen Straub	GDR
3,000 m, Men	Markus Ryffel	SUI	Miel Puttemans	BEL	Jörg Peter	GDR
60 m Hurdles, Men	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	Vyacheslav Kulebyakin	URS	Giuseppe Buttari	ITA
High Jump, Men	Vladimir Yashchenko	URS	Rolf Beilschmidt	GDR	Wolfgang Killing	GER
Pole Vault, Men	Tadeusz Ślusarski	POL	Vladimir Trofimenko	URS	Vladimir Sergiyenko	URS
Long Jump, Men	László Szalma	HUN	Ronald Desruelles	BEL	Vladimir Tsepelyov	URS
Triple Jump, Men	Anatoly Piskulin	URS	Keith Connor	GBR	Aleksandr Yakovlev	URS
Shot Put, Men	Reijo Ståhlberg	FIN	Władysław Komar	POL	Geoff Capes	GBR
60 m, Women	Marlies Oelsner	GDR	Linda Haglund	SWE	Lyudmila Storozhkova	URS
400 m, Women	Marina Sidorova	URS	Rita Bottiglieri	ITA	Karoline Käfer	AUT
800 m, Women	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	Totka Petrova	BUL	Mariana Suman	ROU
1,500 m, Women	Ileana Silai	ROU	Natalia Mărășescu	ROU	Brigitte Kraus	GER
60 m Hurdles, Women	Johanna Klier	GDR	Grażyna Rabsztyn	POL	Silvia Kempin	GDR
High Jump, Women	Sara Simeoni	ITA	Brigitte Holzapfel	GER	Urszula Kielan	POL
Long Jump, Women	Jarmila Nygrýnová	TCH	Ildikó Erdélyi	HUN	Sue Reeve	GBR
Shot Put, Women	Helena Fibingerová	TCH	Margitta Droese	GDR	Eva Wilms	GER