1978_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships

1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships
1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	11–12 March 1978
Host city	Milan, Italy
Venue	Palasport di San Siro
Events	19
Participation	252 athletes from ; 25 nations
Records set	1 WR, 7 CR
	← 1977 San Sebastián 1979 Vienna →

1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships

International athletics championship event

The 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Palasport di San Siro in Milan, Italy, between 11 and 12 March 1978. It was the first time the championships were held in Italy.

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Nikolay Kolesnikov (URS)	6.64	Petar Petrov (BUL)	6.66	Aleksandr Aksinin (URS)	6.73
400 metres details	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	46.51	Ryszard Podlas (POL)	46.55	Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS)	46.72
800 metres details	Markku Taskinen (FIN)	1:47.35 NR	Olaf Beyer (GDR)	1:47.68	Roger Milhau (FRA)	1:47.8a
1500 metres details	Antti Loikkanen (FIN)	3:38.16 CR	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:38.23	Jürgen Straub (GDR)	3:40.2a
3000 metres details	Markus Ryffel (SUI)	7:49.5a	Emiel Puttemans (BEL)	7:49.9a	Jörg Peter (GDR)	7:50.1a
60 metres hurdles details	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	7.62 =CR	Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS)	7.72	Giuseppe Buttari (ITA)	7.86
High jump details	Vladimir Yashchenko (URS)	2.35 WR	Rolf Beilschmidt (GDR)	2.29	Wolfgang Killing (FRG)	2.27
Pole vault details	Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL)	5.45	Vladimir Trofimenko (URS)	5.40	Vladimir Sergiyenko (URS)	5.40
Long jump details	László Szalma (HUN)	7.83	Ronald Desruelles (BEL)	7.75	Vladimir Tsepelyov (URS)	7.73
Triple jump details	Anatoliy Piskulin (URS)	16.82	Keith Connor (GBR)	16.53	Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS)	16.47
Shot put details	Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN)	20.48	Władysław Komar (POL)	20.16	Geoff Capes (GBR)	20.11

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Marlies Oelsner (GDR)	7.12 CR	Linda Haglund (SWE)	7.18 NR	Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS)	7.27
400 metres details	Marina Sidorova (URS)	52.42	Rita Bottiglieri (ITA)	53.18	Karoline Käfer (AUT)	53.56
800 metres details	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	2:02.3a	Totka Petrova (BUL)	2:02.5a	Mariana Suman (ROM)	2:03.4a
1500 metres details	Ileana Silai (ROM)	4:07.1a CR	Natalia Mărășescu (ROM)	4:07.4a	Brigitte Kraus (FRG)	4:07.6a
60 metres hurdles details	Johanna Klier (GDR)	7.94 CR	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	8.07	Silvia Kempin (FRG)	8.15
High jump details	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.94 CR	Brigitte Holzapfel (FRG)	1.91	Urszula Kielan (POL)	1.88
Long jump details	Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH)	6.62	Ildikó Erdélyi (HUN)	6.49	Sue Reeve (GBR)	6.48
Shot put details	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	20.67	Margitta Droese (GDR)	19.77	Eva Wilms (FRG)	19.24

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	4	3	2	9
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	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	4	6
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	0	2
11	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
15	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		19	19	19	57

1978_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships

1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Medal summary

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Medal table

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