European Athletics Championships 1978/200 m women

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	25 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 31st (preliminary / semi-finals) September 1st (final)
Medalists
gold	Lyudmila Kondratjewa ( URS )
silver	Marlies Göhr ( GDR )
bronze	Carla Bodendorf ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The 200-meter race of women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 31 August and 1 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

In this competition, the GDR sprinters won two medals, silver and bronze. The European champion was Lyudmila Kondratjewa from the USSR. Second place went to the 100 meter winner Marlies Göhr . Bronze went to Carla Bodendorf .

Existing records

World record	22.06 s	Marita Koch	Erfurt , GDR (now Germany )	May 28, 1978
European record
Championship record	22.51 s	Irena Szewińska	EM Rome , Italy	September 6, 1974

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved. However, European champion Lyudmila Kondratjewa only missed him in the final on September 1st by a hundredth of a second,

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	Tetiana Prorochenko	Soviet Union	23.23 SB
2	Kathryn Smallwood	Great Britain	23.54
3	Marlies Goehr	GDR	23.73
4th	Claudia Steger	BR Germany	23.96 SB
5	Michelle Walsh	Ireland	23.99 SB
6th	Radoslava Soborova	Czechoslovakia	23.84 SB

Forward 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	23.11
2	Monika Hamann	GDR	23.35
3	Irén Orosz	Hungary	23.46 SB
4th	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	23.48
5	Dagmar Schenten	BR Germany	23.70 PB
6th	Helina Marjamaa	Finland	23.84 SB
7th	Tilly Verhoef	Netherlands	24.12 SB

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Chantal Rega	France	23.26
2	Linda Haglund	Sweden	23.38
3	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	23.40 PB
4th	Beverley Goddard	Great Britain	23.54
5	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.62 SB
6th	Silvia Schinzel	Austria	24.30 PB

Forward 4

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	22.92
2	Liljana Ivanova	Bulgaria	22.93 SB
3	Carla Bodendorf	GDR	23.11
4th	Raimonde Naigré	France	23.56 SB
5	Jolanta Stalmach	Poland	23.96 PB
6th	Ellie Henzen	Netherlands	23.97 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	Marlies Goehr	GDR	22.86
2	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	22.86
3	Monika Hamann	GDR	22.99
4th	Liljana Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.12
5	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	23.36 SB
6th	Zofia Bielczyk	Poland	23.41
7th	Raimonde Naigré	France	23.89
8th	Claudia Steger	BR Germany	24.18

Run 2

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	22.83
2	Carla Bodendorf	GDR	22.92
3	Chantal Rega	France	22.98
4th	Linda Haglund	Sweden	23.11
5	Kathryn Smallwood	Great Britain	23.12 SB
6th	Tetiana Prorochenko	Soviet Union	23.30
7th	Beverley Goddard	Great Britain	23.37 SB
8th	Irén Orosz	Hungary	23.56

After their victory over 100 meters Marlies Goehr Vizeeuropa- was
CONCIERGE about 200 meters - it was twice European champion in the 100 meters, also the first world champion in 1983 and Olympic silver medalist in 1980 , in addition, they won numerous medals Season

final

September 1, 1978, 5:45 p.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	22.52 SB
2	Marlies Goehr	GDR	22.53
3	Carla Bodendorf	GDR	22.64 SB
4th	Monika Hamann	GDR	22.76 PB
5	Chantal Rega	France	22.77 SB
6th	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	22.89
7th	Linda Haglund	Sweden	23.07
8th	Liljana Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.23

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  Bronze medalist Carla Bodendorf, former Carla Rietig

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  Monika Hamann (to the left of Marlies Göhr) took fourth place, just like over 100 meters

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  After finishing second over 100 meters, Linda Haglund (here in 2013) came in seventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 9, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women 200m on todor66.com, accessed August 9, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 9, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 433, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 9, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 9, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 9, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed July 19, 2019