1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon
| Men's marathon at the European Athletics Championships |
|---|
| 1978 European Athletics Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | women | |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| 100 m hurdles | women | |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | women |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | |
| 20 km walk | men | |
| 50 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Decathlon | men | |
The men's marathon at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 3 September 1978.[1]
Medalists
| Gold | Leonid Moseyev Soviet Union |
| Silver | Nikolay Penzin Soviet Union |
| Bronze | Karel Lismont Belgium |
Results
Final
3 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leonid Moseyev | Soviet Union | 2:11:57.5 | CR | |
| Nikolay Penzin | Soviet Union | 2:11:59.0 | ||
| Karel Lismont | Belgium | 2:12:07.7 | ||
| 4 | Waldemar Cierpinski | East Germany | 2:12:20.0 | |
| 5 | Cătălin Andreica | Romania | 2:12:29.4 | NR |
| 6 | Massimo Magnani | Italy | 2:12:45.3 | |
| 7 | Hans-Joachim Truppel | East Germany | 2:12:54.3 | |
| 8 | Jürgen Eberding | East Germany | 2:13:39.7 | |
| 9 | David Cannon | Great Britain | 2:14:31.7 | |
| 10 | Mihaíl Koúsis | Greece | 2:14:41.3 | |
| 11 | Satymkul Dzhumanazarov | Soviet Union | 2:14:43.3 | |
| 12 | Göran Bengtsson | Sweden | 2:15:01.9 | |
| 13 | Tony Simmons | Great Britain | 2:15:31.5 | |
| 14 | Ferenc Szekeres | Hungary | 2:15:45.0 | |
| 15 | Ryszard Marczak | Poland | 2:15:47.8 | |
| 16 | Michelangelo Arena | Italy | 2:16:09.2 | |
| 17 | Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer | Czechoslovakia | 2:16:37.6 | |
| 18 | Henri Schoofs | Belgium | 2:16:49.5 | |
| 19 | Josef Jánský | Czechoslovakia | 2:16:53.0 | |
| 20 | Reinhard Leibold | West Germany | 2:16:56.3 | |
| 21 | Jean-Marie Ancion | Belgium | 2:17:24.5 | |
| 22 | Ko van den Weyden | Netherlands | 2:17:32.8 | |
| 23 | Bernard Bobes | France | 2:17:48.0 | |
| 24 | Aarno Ristimäki | Finland | 2:18:17.8 | |
| 25 | Colin Taylor | Great Britain | 2:18:44.5 | |
| 26 | Antonio Romero | Spain | 2:19:26.4 | |
| 27 | Patrick Hooper | Ireland | 2:20:28.5 | |
| 28 | Manuel Paiva | Portugal | 2:20:49.4 | |
| 29 | Richard Hooper | Ireland | 2:21:00.2 | |
| 30 | Cor Vriend | Netherlands | 2:21:25.2 | |
| 31 | Henry Olsen | Norway | 2:21:35.1 | |
| 32 | Sadık Salman | Turkey | 2:22:47.4 | |
| 33 | Jørn Lauenborg | Denmark | 2:23:14.8 | |
| 34 | Roelof Veld | Netherlands | 2:23:38.3 | |
| 35 | András Fancsali | Hungary | 2:23:39.7 | |
| 36 | Veli Ballı | Turkey | 2:25:56.2 | |
| 37 | Kyriakos Lazaridis | Greece | 2:32:16.9 | |
| Paolo Accaputo | Italy | DNF | ||
| Jörgen Hein | Denmark | DNF | ||
| Lars Enqvist | Sweden | DNF | ||
| Jan Fjærestad | Norway | DNF | ||
| Bjarne Brøndum | Denmark | DNF | ||
| Miroslav Krsek | Czechoslovakia | DNF | ||
| Ryszard Kopijasz | Poland | DNF | ||
| Håkan Spik | Finland | DNF | ||
| Aniceto Simões | Portugal | DNF | ||
| Fernand Kolbeck | France | DNF | ||
| Øyvind Dahl | Norway | DNF | ||
| Jochen Schirmer | West Germany | DNF |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 49 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.
- Belgium (3)
- Czechoslovakia (3)
- Denmark (3)
- East Germany (3)
- Finland (2)
- France (2)
- Greece (2)
- Hungary (2)
- Ireland (2)
- Italy (3)
- Netherlands (3)
- Norway (3)
- Poland (2)
- Portugal (2)
- Romania (1)
- Soviet Union (3)
- Spain (1)
- Sweden (2)
- Turkey (2)
- Great Britain (3)
- West Germany (2)
References
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014