European Athletics Championships 1978/100 m hurdles for women

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter hurdles for women
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	23 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 31st (preliminary / semi-finals) September 1st (final)
Medalists
gold	Johanna Klier ( GDR )
silver	Tatiana Anissimowa ( URS )
bronze	Gudrun Berend ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The 100-meter hurdles for women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 31 August and 1 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

With gold and bronze, the hurdlers from the GDR won two medals in this competition. European champion was Johanna Klier , who had become an Olympic champion in 1976 as Johanna Schaller . She won before the 1976 Olympic runner-up Tatiana Anissimowa from the USSR. Bronze went to Gudrun Berend .

Records

Existing records

World record	12.48 s	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Fürth , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	June 10, 1978
European record
EM record	12.66 s	Annelie Ehrhardt	EM Rome , Italy	7th September 1974

Record improvement

The world record holder Grażyna Rabsztyn , who did not finish in the final, improved the existing EM record in the semi-finals on August 31 by six hundredths of a second to 12.60 s.  

Preliminary round

August 31, 1978

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.94
2	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	13.04
3	Gudrun Berend	GDR	13.25
4th	Xénia Siska	Hungary	13.48
5	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	13.56 SB
6th	Laurence Elloy	France	14.07 SB

Forward 2

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Johanna Klier	GDR	12.85
2	Lucyna Langer	Poland	13.13
3	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	13.23 SB
4th	Silvia Kempin	BR Germany	13.40 PB
5	Laurence Lebeau	France	13.60 SB
6th	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	13.63 SB

Forward 3

Wind: -1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Elzbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.20
2	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.46
3	Lidia Gusheva	Bulgaria	13.52 PB
4th	Monika Schönauerová	Czechoslovakia	13.61 PB
5	Lena spoof	Finland	13.63 SB

Forward 4

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.85
2	Annerose Fiedler	GDR	13.43
3	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.74 SB
4th	Elisavet Pantazi	Greece	13.84
5	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	13.95 SB
6th	Hana Chocová	Czechoslovakia	14.04 PB

Semifinals

August 31, 1978

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.60 CR
2	Johanna Klier	GDR	12.90
3	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	13.00
4th	Annerose Fiedler	GDR	13.07 SB
5	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	13.25
6th	Xénia Siska	Hungary	13.36 NU23R
7th	Monika Schönauerová	Czechoslovakia	13.72
8th	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.90

Run 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gudrun Berend	GDR	12.90
2	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.92
3	Lucyna Langer	Poland	13.00
4th	Elzbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.14 SB
5	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.44 PB
6th	Elisavet Pantazi	Greece	13.82 SB
DNF	Silvia Kempin	BR Germany
DNS	Lidia Gusheva	Bulgaria

final

After her Olympic victory in 1976 . Back then as Johanna Schaller, Johanna Klier also became European champion - in 1980 she won Olympic silver

September 1, 1978, 7:50 p.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Johanna Klier	GDR	12.62 SB
2	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.67 PB
3	Gudrun Berend	GDR	12.73 PB
4th	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	12.86 SB
5	Lucyna Langer	Poland	12.98 SB
6th	Annerose Fiedler	GDR	13.09
7th	Elzbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.17
DNF	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland

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  The 1974 vice European champion Annerose Fiedler (on the photo to the left of Johanna Klier) came in sixth

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  World record holder Grażyna Rabsztyn (here in 2007) , who set a new championship record in the semi-finals, did not finish in the final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 10, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women 100m Hurdles on todor66.com, accessed on August 10, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 10, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m Hurdles European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 434, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, 100 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 10, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women , accessed on August 10, 2019