1978 European Indoor Championships in Athletics
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The 9th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Palasport di San Siro
in Milan
, a city in Italy
, in 1978. It was the first time the championships was held in Italy.
Palasport di San Siro
Palasport di San Siro was an indoor arena in Milan, Italy. It was primarily used for basketball and volleyball until the PalaSharp opened in 1985. The arena held 18,000 spectators and opened in 1976. On January 17, 1985, a large snowfall collapsed the roof and the arena was closed....
in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, a city in Italy
Italy
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, in 1978. It was the first time the championships was held in Italy.
Track
| Discipline | 1st | Time | 2nd | Time | 3rd | Time | |
| 60 m | M | Nikolay Kolesnikov (URS) | 6.64 | Petar Petrov Petar Petrov (runner) Petar Nikolov Petrov is a retired Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.In 1973 he won two European Junior silver medals in the 100 and 200 metres.He was 1976 Olympic 100 metres finalist, where he finished 8th.... (BUL) |
6.66 | Aleksandr Aksinin Aleksandr Aksinin Aleksandr Timofeyevich Aksinin is a former Soviet athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics.Aleksandr Aksinin trained at Dynamo in Leningrad. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal as a member of Soviet 4x100 m relay team. He won silver in 1975, bronze... (URS) |
6.73 |
| F | Marlies Oelsner (GDR) | 7.12 CR | Linda Haglund Linda Haglund Linda Haglund is a former Swedish Olympic sprinter, born June 15, 1956 in Enskede, Sweden.- Running career :Haglund became a member of Hanvikens SK, a track and field club located just south of Stockholm, at the age of 13. She showed great promise as a future sprinting star by recording, barefoot,... (SWE) |
7.18 (NR) | Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS) | 7.27 | |
| 400 m | M | Pietro Mennea Pietro Mennea Pietro Paolo Mennea is an Italian former sprinter and politician, who was the 1980 Moscow Olympic 200 meter Champion, and also held the 200 m world record for 17 years.-Biography:... (ITA) |
46.51 | Ryszard Podlas Ryszard Podlas Ryszard Podlas was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He was born in Białobrzezie and represented the club Technika Pracze. He won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics with his teammates Jan Werner, Zbigniew Jaremski and Jerzy Pietrzyk... (POL) |
46.55 | Nikolay Chernyetskiy (URS) | 46.72 |
| F | Marina Sidorova (URS) | 52.42 | Rita Bottiglieri Rita Bottiglieri Rita Bottiglieri is a retired pentathlete from Italy. She won three medals at the European Indoor Championships.-Achievements:-References:*... (ITA) |
53.18 | Karoline Käfer Karoline Käfer Karoline Käfer is a retired sprinter from Austria. She won three medals at the European Indoor Championships.With 23,09 seconds over 200 metres and 50,62 seconds over 400 metres Käfer holds two Austrian records.-Achievements:... (AUT) |
53.56 | |
| 800 m | M | Markku Taskinen (FIN) | 1:47.35 NR | Olaf Beyer Olaf Beyer Olaf Beyer was an East German 800 metres runner who won the gold medal at the 1978 European Championships in Prague. In that race he beat the future world-record holder Sebastian Coe and the future Olympic Champion Steve Ovett both from the UK. Beyer's time of 1:43.84 made him temporarily the... (GDR) |
1:47.68 | Roger Milhau (FRA) | 1:47.8a |
| F | Ulrike Bruns (GDR) | 2:02.3a | Totka Petrova Totka Petrova Totka Nikolaeva Petrova is a retired female middle distance runner who represented Bulgaria in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres, and won numerous international medals. She is still the Bulgarian 1500 metres record holder.-Career:She was born in Yambol, and... (BUL) |
2:02.5a | Mariana Suman (ROM) | 2:03.4a | |
| 1500 m | M | Antti Loikkanen Antti Loikkanen Antti Olavi Loikkanen is a former Finnish middle distance and endurance runner. Loikkanen was one of Finland's most successful 800 meter and 1500 meter runners in the beginning of the 1980s... (FIN) |
3:38.16 CR | Thomas Wessinghage Thomas Wessinghage Thomas Wessinghage was a German middle- and long-distance runner who won the 1982 European Championships' final over 5000 metres beating the British world-record holder David Moorcroft. Because he was already thirty at the time, and had been an international-level runner for a decade, this victory... (FRG) |
3:38.23 | Jürgen Straub Jürgen Straub Jürgen Straub is a former East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.... (GDR) |
3:40.2a |
| F | Ileana Silai (ROM) | 4:07.1a CR | Natalia Marasescu Natalia Marasescu Natalia Mărăşescu is a retired Romanian middle distance runner who specialized mainly in the 1500 metres.... (ROM) |
4:07.4a | Brigitte Kraus Brigitte Kraus Brigitte Kraus is a retired West German middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 and 3000 metres.She competed for the sports clubs LG Rhein-Berg and ASV Köln during her active career.-Achievements:- References :... (FRG) |
4:07.6a | |
| 3000 m | M | Markus Ryffel Markus Ryffel Markus Ryffel is a Swiss long-distance runner who won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic 5000 metres final in Los Angeles. He set the Swiss record at 13:07.54 min... (SUI) |
7:49.5a | Emiel Puttemans Emiel Puttemans Emiel Puttemans is a retired middle- and long-distance runner, who set world records for 3000 metres in 1972, for 2 miles in 1971, and for 5000 metres in 1972.... (BEL) |
7:49.9a | Jörg Peter Jörg Peter Jörg Peter is a former German long-distance runner and holder of the current German records over the marathon distance. Peter won in 1978 at the 3000 m. run... (GDR) |
7:50.1a |
| 60 m hurdles | M | Thomas Munkelt Thomas Munkelt east jordans hamThomas Munkelt was an East German athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics.... (GDR) |
7.62 =CR | Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS) | 7.72 | Giuseppe Buttari Giuseppe Buttari Giuseppe Buttari is a retired Italian hurdler. His personal best time was 13.70 seconds, achieved in September 1979 in Mexico City. The Italian record currently belongs to Andrea Giaconi with 13.35 seconds.-Achievements:-References:... (ITA) |
7.86 |
| F | Johanna Klier (GDR) | 7.94 CR | Grażyna Rabsztyn Grazyna Rabsztyn Grażyna Rabsztyn is a Polish hurdler. She set three world records in 100 metres hurdles. On June 10, 1978 she became the first runner under 12.5 seconds with a new record of 12.48 seconds. She had the same time a year later, on June 18, 1979, and finally, on June 13, 1980 she had her best time... (POL) |
8.07 | Silvia Kempin (FRA) | 8.15 |
Field
| Discipline | 1st | Meter | 2nd | Meter | 3rd | Meter | |
| High Jump | M | Vladimir Yashchenko Vladimir Yashchenko Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko or Volodymyr Yashchenko was a member of the USSR national team and former world record holder in the high jump . He first broke the record at age 18, at the USA-USSR dual meet in Richmond, Virginia, 1977... (URS) |
2.35 CR | Rolf Beilschmidt Rolf Beilschmidt Rolf Beilschmidt is a retired East German high jumper.Beilschmidt represented the sports club SC Motor Jena, and became East German champion in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1981.... (GDR) |
2.29 | Wolfgang Killing (FRG) | 2.27 |
| F | Sara Simeoni Sara Simeoni Sara Simeoni is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump.-Biography:... (ITA) |
1.94 CR | Brigitte Holzapfel Brigitte Holzapfel Brigitte Elisabeth Holzapfel is a retired West German high jumper.At the 1975 European Junior Championships she won a bronze medal in the high jump and a gold medal in pentathlon... (FRG) |
1.91 | Urszula Kielan Urszula Kielan Urszula Kielan is a retired high jumper from Poland. She won four medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as an Olympic silver medal in 1980.-Major achievements:-References:*... (POL) |
1.88 | |
| Long Jump | M | László Szalma László Szalma László Szalma is a retired Hungarian long jumper. He won six medals at the European Indoor Championships—two gold, three silver and one bronze—and finished fourth at the 1980 Olympic Games and the 1983 World Championships... (HUN) |
7.83 | Ronald Desruelles Ronald Desruelles Ronald Desruelles is a retired Belgian athlete. He started as a long jumper, and achieved a personal best of 8.08 in 1979, a national record that stood for 17 years. He then concentrated on the short sprints, and won numerous medals in 60 metres. With 6.57 seconds in 1986 he was ranked third on... (BEL) |
7.75 | Vladimir Tsepelyov Vladimir Tsepelyov Vladimir Tsepelyov is a retired long jumper who represented the USSR. He won two medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as a bronze medal at the 1978 European Championships in Athletics.-Achievements:-External links:*... (URS) |
7.73 |
| F | Jarmila Nygrýnová Jarmila Nygrýnová Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková was a long jumper from the Czech Republic, representing Czechoslovakia. She won six medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as a bronze medal at the 1978 European Championships.... (TCH) |
6.62 | Ildikó Erdélyi Ildikó Erdélyi Ildikó Szabó-Erdélyi is a retired long jumper from Hungary. She won two medals at the European Indoor Championships.-Achievements:-References:*... (HUN) |
6.49 | Sue Reeve Sue Reeve Susan Diane Scott-Reeve is a former female track and field athlete from England, who competed in the women's long jump and heptathlon during her career. She represented Great Britain at three Summer Olympics: 1968, 1976 and 1980.-References:*... (GBR) |
6.48 | |
| Triple Jump | M | Anatoly Piskulin (URS) | 16.82 | Keith Connor Keith Connor Keith Leroy Connor migrated with his parents to Great Britain in 1964. He went on to represent Great Britain as an athlete who mainly competed in the triple jump... (GBR) |
16.53 | Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS) | 16.47 |
| Pole Vault | M | Tadeusz Ślusarski Tadeusz Slusarski Tadeusz Ślusarski was a Polish Olympic gold medalist in pole vault at the 1976 Olympics, as well as a silver medalist at the 1980 Olympics .He died in a car crash together with the Polish shot put gold medalist from Munich 1972, Władysław... (POL) |
5.45 | Vladimir Trofimenko Vladimir Trofimenko Vladimir Trofimenko is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR. He won the 1978 European Championships in Athletics as well as two medals at the European Indoor Championships.-Achievements:-References:-References:*... (URS) |
5.40 | Vladimir Sergiyenko (URS) | 5.40 |
| Shot Put | M | Reijo Ståhlberg Reijo Ståhlberg Reijo Einar Ståhlberg is a 194 cm former Finnish shot putter whose competitive weight was 128 kg. He holds the Finnish shot put record of 21.69 meters and represented Finland in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics, placing 11th and 4th respectively. In the European Championships of 1974, he came... (FIN) |
20.48 | Władysław Komar (POL) | 20.16 | Geoff Capes Geoff Capes Geoffrey Lewis Capes is a former athlete, strongman and professional Highland Games competitor... (GBR) |
20.11 |
| F | Helena Fibingerová Helena Fibingerová Helena Fibingerová is a Czech shot putter who won an Olympic bronze medal and set three world records... (TCH) |
20.67 | Margitta Droese (GDR) | 19.77 | Eva Wilms Eva Wilms Eva Wilms is a retired West German shot putter.Her personal best throw was 21.43 metres, achieved in June 1977 in Munich... (FRG) |
19.24 |
Medal table
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| 7 |  Romania |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
 Bulgaria |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 13 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
External links
- Results - men at GBRathletics.com
- Results - women at GBRathletics.com
- EAA