1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships
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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.
Medal summary
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 metres |  Nikolay Kolesnikov (URS) |
6.64 |  Petar Petrov (BUL) |
6.66 | Aleksandr Aksinin (URS) |
6.73 |
| 400 metres |  Pietro Mennea (ITA) |
46.51 |  Ryszard Podlas (POL) |
46.55 | Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS) |
46.72 |
| 800 metres |  Markku Taskinen (FIN) |
1:47.35 NR |  Olaf Beyer (GDR) |
1:47.68 |  Roger Milhau (FRA) |
1:47.8a |
| 1500 metres | Antti Loikkanen (FIN) |
3:38.16 CR |  Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) |
3:38.23 | Jürgen Straub (GDR) |
3:40.2a |
| 3000 metres |  Markus Ryffel (SUI) |
7:49.5a |  Emiel Puttemans (BEL) |
7:49.9a | Jörg Peter (GDR) |
7:50.1a |
| 60 metres hurdles | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) |
7.62 =CR | Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS) |
7.72 | Giuseppe Buttari (ITA) |
7.86 |
| Pole vault | Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL) |
5.45 | Vladimir Trofimenko (URS) |
5.40 | Vladimir Sergiyenko (URS) |
5.40 |
| High jump | Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) |
2.35 CR | Rolf Beilschmidt (GDR) |
2.29 | Wolfgang Killing (FRG) |
2.27 |
| Long jump |  László Szalma (HUN) |
7.83 | Ronald Desruelles (BEL) |
7.75 | Vladimir Tsepelyov (URS) |
7.73 |
| Triple jump | Anatoliy Piskulin (URS) |
16.82 |  Keith Connor (GBR) |
16.53 | Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS) |
16.47 |
| Shot put | Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN) |
20.48 | Władysław Komar (POL) |
20.16 | Geoff Capes (GBR) |
20.11 |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 metres | Marlies Oelsner (GDR) |
7.12 CR |  Linda Haglund (SWE) |
7.18 NR | Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS) |
7.27 |
| 400 metres | Marina Sidorova (URS) |
52.42 | Rita Bottiglieri (ITA) |
53.18 |  Karoline Käfer (AUT) |
53.56 |
| 800 metres | Ulrike Bruns (GDR) |
2:02.3a | Totka Petrova (BUL) |
2:02.5a |  Mariana Suman (ROM) |
2:03.4a |
| 1500 metres | Ileana Silai (ROM) |
4:07.1a CR | Natalia Marasescu (ROM) |
4:07.4a | Brigitte Kraus (FRG) |
4:07.6a |
| 60 metres hurdles | Johanna Klier (GDR) |
7.94 CR | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) |
8.07 | Silvia Kempin (GDR) |
8.15 |
| High jump | Sara Simeoni (ITA) |
1.94 CR | Brigitte Holzapfel (FRG) |
1.91 | Urszula Kielan (POL) |
1.88 |
| Long jump |  Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) |
6.62 | Ildikó Erdélyi (HUN) |
6.49 | Sue Reeve (GBR) |
6.48 |
| Shot put | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) |
20.67 | Margitta Droese (GDR) |
19.77 | Eva Wilms (FRG) |
19.24 |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Germany |
4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | Soviet Union |
4 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | Finland |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Italy |
2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Poland |
1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 |  Romania |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Hungary |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 |  Switzerland |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | West Germany |
0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | Belgium |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Bulgaria |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 13 | United Kingdom |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Sweden |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Austria |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| France |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- Results - men at GBRathletics.com
- Results - women at GBRathletics.com
- EAA
