European Athletics Championships 1978/3000 m women
12th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | 3000 meter run for women |
city |
Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic |
Stadion | Evžena Rošického Stadium |
Participants | 26 athletes from 14 countries |
Competition phase | 29th August |
Medalists | |
gold | Svetlana Ulmassowa ( URS ) |
silver | Natalia Mărășescu ( ROM ) |
bronze | Grete Waitz ( NOR ) |
The 3000 Meters of women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on August 29, 1978 at Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.
The European champion was the Soviet runner Svetlana Ulmassowa . She won ahead of the Romanian Natalia Mărășescu , former Natalia Andrei, who five days later also took second place over 1500 meters . Bronze went to the Norwegian Grete Waitz , who, as Grete Andersen, had finished third in the European Championship over 1500 meters in 1974 .
Records
Existing records
World record | 8: 27.12 min | Lyudmila Bragina | College Park, Maryland , USA | 7th August 1976 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 8: 55.10 min | Nina Holmén | EM Rome , Italy | 2nd September 1974 |
Record improvement
European champion Swetlana Ulmassowa improved the existing EM record on August 29 by 21.94 seconds to 8: 33.16 minutes.
execution
As is customary with the men on the longest track, there was no preliminary round, all 25 participants started in a joint final.
final
August 29, 1978
Ingrid Kristiansen came in tenth - later she was very successful on longer distances, including becoming world champion over 10,000 meters in 1987 , setting world records over 5000 and 10,000 meters and developing into a world-class marathon runner
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 10, 2019
- Women 3000m European Championship 1978 Prague from todor66.com, accessed 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 3000m European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 433 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 10, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, 3000 m 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
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 75 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 10, 2019
- ↑ a b Brigitte Berendonk, Doping Documents: Von der Forschung zum Fraud , p. 33, accessed on August 10, 2019