German Athletics Championships 1978
78th German Athletics Championships | |
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The second Müngersdorfer Stadium (1975-2001) |
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city | Cologne / 7 other locations |
Stadion | Müngersdorfer Stadium |
Competitions | 34 + 26 at other venues |
opening | August 11, 1978 |
Final day | August 13, 1978 |
timeline | |
← Hamburg 1977 | Stuttgart 1979 → |
The 78th German Athletics Championships were held from August 11th to 13th, 1978 in Cologne in the Müngersdorfer Stadium .
Even then there were controversial doping discussions in West Germany - reported u. a. in time online. The discus thrower Hein-Direck Neu and the shot putter Hans-Joachim Krug had been banned by the German Athletics Association for doping anabolic steroids, but had their right to start judged by a preliminary injunction. In retrospect, v. a. the handling of the topic by doctors and those responsible, the capping and concealment of the practices used.
There was a special achievement by the decathlete Guido Kratschmer , who set a new European record with 8498 P after the 1965 rating (after the current rating of 1985: 8493 P).
There were also other records:
- 400 meter hurdles : Harald Schmid 48.43 s - new German record
- 25 km road race : Karl Fleschen 1:13:56 h in - new German record
- 4 × 400 m relay : TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen with Joachim Rabstein , Günter Karge , Franz-Peter Hofmeister and Bernd Herrmann 3: 04.5 min - a new German record for club relay
- 4 × 1500 m relay : USC Mainz in the line-up of Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand , Michael Karst , Carlo Seck , Thomas Wessinghage 15: 09.1 min - new German record for club relay
- 400-meter hurdles : Silvia Hollmann 55.84 s - new German record
- 4 × 400 m relay : TuS 04 Leverkusen in the cast Brigitte Koczelnik , Petra Kleinbrahm , Gisela Klein geb. Ellenberger and Elke Decker 3: 34.9 min - new German record for club relays
- High jump : Brigitte Holzapfel (German champion) and Ulrike Meyfarth ( second in the championship) 1.95 m - setting the existing German record
In addition, as in previous years, further championship titles were awarded at various other locations, named in the following list in chronological order.
- Cross-country runs - Goldbach , March 4th with individual / team ratings for women and men on two route lengths each (medium / long distance)
- 25 km road race - Frankenberg an der Eder , April 16 with individual ratings for women and men as well as a team rating for men
- 10,000 m (men) and 3000 m and 400 m hurdles (women) - Berlin , May 28th
- All-around competitions (women: pentathlon ) / (men: decathlon ) - Bernhausen , 29./30. July with individual and team ratings
- Long relays , women: 3 × 800 m / men: 4 × 800 m and 4 × 1500 m - Lage , September 16
- Marathon - Steinwiesen , 23 September with individual / team ratings for women and men
- 50 km walk (men) - Eschborn , October 1st with individual and team classification
The following overview summarizes the medal winners. A more detailed overview with the first eight in each of the individual disciplines can be found under the link German Athletics Championships 1978 / Results .
Medalists, men
Medalists, women
See also
- German athletics - current top performances
- German athletics - current top performances in the context of German championships
literature
- Fritz Steinmetz : German Athletics Championships. Volume 2: 1973-1981. Waldfischbach 1982.
Web links
- Athletics champion of the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1990) on gbrathletics.com
- German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
- Hamburger Abendblatt , Via Cologne to Prague
- Frankenberger Straßenlauf on the website wordpress.com
- 5000 m and 10,000 m finals men from the TV broadcasts on August 13 and May 28, 1978 on YouTube