European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics 1978

The 1st European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics took place between October 10th and 12th 1978 in Madrid , Spain . A total of five disciplines were completed: team, individual all-around and the device finals with the rope, ribbon and ball.

Results

Individual all-around

Galima Schugurowa (URS): First European champion in individual all-around, on rope and with a ribbon

Susanne Ebert (GDR), 11th place in the individual all-around, reached the final with the ribbon

Sabine Ploetz (GDR), 10th place in the individual all-around

To determine the total score, the points from the sub-disciplines rope, ball and ribbon were added together.
The eight best athletes in the sub-disciplines (highlighted here in italics) contested the equipment finals.

All-around

space	country	Athlete	rope	ball	tape	total
1	Soviet Union	Galima Shugurova	9,550	9,750	9,600	28,900
2	Soviet Union	Irina Derjugina	9,550	9,700	9,400	28,650
3	Spain	Susana Mendizabal	9,350	9,300	9,400	28,050
4th	Czechoslovakia	Daniela Bosanska	9,300	9.150	9,550	28,000
4th	BR Germany	Carmen Rischer	9.250	9.450	9,300	28,000
6th	Bulgaria	Iliana Raeva	9,350	9,200	9,400	27,950
7th	Bulgaria	Christine Gurova	9.450	9.450	8,900	27,800
8th	Czechoslovakia	Iveta Havlickova	9,300	9.450	8,950	27,700
9	Poland	Slavomira Sobkovska	9,100	9,300	9.250	27,650
10	German Democratic Republic	Sabine Ploetz	9.250	9,200	9,050	27,500
11	German Democratic Republic	Susanne Ebert	9,000	9,200	9.150	27,350
12	Spain	Sonia Conde	9,100	9,050	9.150	27,300
13	Netherlands	Joke de Boer	9.150	9,000	8,800	26,950
14th	BR Germany	Regina Weber	8,800	9.150	8,850	26,800
15th	Poland	Dorota Leonard	9,100	9,000	8,650	26.750
16	Hungary	Anna Molnar	8,950	8,850	8,850	26,650
17th	Netherlands	Yolanda Sap	9,050	8,800	8,600	26,450
18th	Yugoslavia	Jasna Radosavljevic	8,800	8,950	8,650	26,400
19th	Italy	Cristina Cammelli	8,600	8,850	8,700	26,150
20th	Hungary	Gyorgyi Kovacs	8,750	9,050	8,200	26,000
21st	Italy	Isabelle Zumino	8,700	8,600	8,650	25,950
22nd	Switzerland	Suzanne Müller	8,600	8,750	8,550	25,900
23	France	Catherine Feraud	8,600	8,450	8,800	25,850
23	Sweden	Anna Janson	8,800	8,300	8,750	25,850
25th	United Kingdom	Sharon Taylor	8,400	8,400	8,350	25,150
25th	Austria	Ursula Wicklicki	8,300	8,600	8.250	25,150
27	Norway	Jane Bergersen	8,400	8.250	8,450	25,100
28	Finland	Riitta Immonen	8,450	8,200	8.250	24,900
28	Switzerland	Susanne Zimmermann	8,600	8,000	8,300	24,900
30th	Austria	Monika Bachmann	8.100	8,350	8.250	24,700
31	France	Marielle Dacarpigny	8.050	8,400	8,200	24,650
31	Norway	Marianne Reme	8,350	7,950	8,350	24,650
33	United Kingdom	Judith Robertson	8,200	8,350	8.050	24,600
34	Sweden	Marie Ahrling	7.750	8,500	8.250	24,500
34	Finland	Leila Jaaskelainen	8,000	8.250	8.250	24,500
36	Denmark	Mia Herskind	8.250	8,300	7,850	24,400
36	Portugal	Maria João Falcão	7,900	8,400	8.100	24,400
38	Denmark	Mette Lyngholm	8.150	8,350	7,850	24,350
39	Belgium	Fabienne Aelterman	7,900	8.100	8,300	24,300
40	Belgium	Claire Audenaarde	8,200	7,900	7.300	23,400

Device finals

Regina Weber (FRG) reached place 14 in the individual all-around

In all three device finals, the partial results from the individual all-around competition were used as a preliminary mark.

rope

space	country	Athlete	Preliminary note	Points	total
1	Soviet Union	Galima Shugurova	9,550	9,750	19,300
2	Soviet Union	Irina Derjugina	9,550	9,650	19.200
3	Bulgaria	Christine Gurova	9.450	9,600	19.050
4th	Czechoslovakia	Daniela Bosanska	9,300	9,500	18,800
4th	Spain	Susana Mendizabal	9,350	9.450	18,800
4th	Bulgaria	Iliana Raeva	9,350	9.450	18,800
7th	BR Germany	Carmen Rischer	9.250	9,500	18,750
8th	Czechoslovakia	Iveta Havlickova	9,300	9,400	18,700

ball

space	country	Athlete	Preliminary note	Points	total
1	Soviet Union	Irina Derjugina	9,700	9,900	19,600
2	Soviet Union	Galima Shugurova	9,750	9,800	19,550
3	Bulgaria	Christine Gurova	9.450	9,600	19.050
4th	Czechoslovakia	Iveta Havlickova	9.450	9,500	18,950
5	BR Germany	Carmen Rischer	9.450	9,300	18,750
6th	Bulgaria	Iliana Raeva	9,200	9,500	18,700
7th	Spain	Susana Mendizabal	9,300	9,350	18,650
8th	Poland	Slavomira Sobkovska	9,300	9,200	18,500

tape

space	country	Athlete	Preliminary note	Points	total
1	Soviet Union	Galima Shugurova	9,600	9,600	19.200
2	Czechoslovakia	Daniela Bosanska	9,550	9,500	19.050
2	Soviet Union	Irina Derjugina	9,400	9,650	19.050
4th	Spain	Susana Mendizabal	9,400	9,400	18,800
5	Bulgaria	Iliana Raeva	9,400	9,350	18,750
6th	BR Germany	Carmen Rischer	9,300	9,400	18,700
7th	Poland	Slavomira Sobkovska	9.250	9,300	18,550
8th	German Democratic Republic	Susanne Ebert	9.150	9.250	18,400

group

The competition included a preliminary and a final. The eight best teams in the preliminary competition contested the final. For the overall result, the points that were achieved in the preliminary and final were added together.

space	country	Points
1	Bulgaria	38.625
2	Soviet Union	38,600
3	Czechoslovakia	38.425
4th	Spain	37,900
5	Italy	36.750
6th	Netherlands	35.775
7th	Norway	35,450
8th	Switzerland	34,400
9	Finland	16.125
10	Belgium	15.975
11	United Kingdom	15,900

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Soviet Union	4th	5	0	9
2	Bulgaria	1	0	2	3
3	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
4th	Spain	0	0	1	1

Individual evidence