European Athletics Championships 1978 / women's javelin

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 31 (qualifying) September 1 (final)
Medalists
gold	Ruth Fuchs ( GDR )
silver	Tessa Sanderson ( GBR )
bronze	Ute Hommola ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The javelin throw of 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, there were two medals in this competition for the athletes from the GDR. The European champion was the defending champion and two-time Olympic champion in 1972 and 1976, Ruth Fuchs , who improved her own European record by four centimeters with her winning throw. She won ahead of the British Tessa Sanderson . Bronze went to Ute Hommola .

Records

Existing records

World record	69.32 m	Kate Schmidt	Fürth , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	September 11, 1977
European record	69.12 m	Ruth Fuchs	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	July 10, 1976
EM record	67.22 m		EM Rome , Italy	2nd September 1974

Record improvement

European champion Ruth Fuchs improved her own championship record in the final on September 1st by 1.94 m to 69.16 m. At the same time, with this litter, she increased the European record she also held by four centimeters.  

qualification

August 31, 1978

Sixteen participants took part in the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 57.00 m. As exactly twelve athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), these athletes held the final together on the following day.

Sofia Sakorafa (here as a politician in 2016) missed the final by 44 centimeters

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Nina Nikorova	Soviet Union	63.18 SB
2	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	60.36
3	Éva Ráduly-Zörgő	Romania	59.84
4th	Jadvyga Putinienė	Soviet Union	59.84 SB
5	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	59.62
6th	Ivanka Wantschewa	Bulgaria	59.34 SB
7th	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	59.04
8th	Ute Richter	GDR	59.00
9	Eva Helmschmidt	BR Germany	58.74
10	Bernadette Blechacz	Poland	58.38
11	Elena Burgárová	Czechoslovakia	57.40 SB
12	Ute Hommola	GDR	57.18
13	Sofia Sakorafa	Greece	56.56 SB
14th	Tsvetanka Mikhailova	Bulgaria	54.72 PB
15th	Giuliana Amici	Italy	52.66 SB
16	Lidia Berkhout	Netherlands	52.14 PB

final

European champion Ruth Fuchs defended her title, and she also won two Olympic gold medals in 1972 and 1976

September 1, 1978, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	69.16 ER
2	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	62.40 SB
3	Ute Hommola	GDR	62.32 SB
4th	Ute Richter	GDR	62.04 SB
5	Éva Ráduly-Zörgő	Romania	61.14 SB
6th	Eva Helmschmidt	BR Germany	60.96 SB
7th	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	60.18 SB
8th	Bernadette Blechacz	Poland	60.14 SB
9	Nina Nikorova	Soviet Union	57.50
10	Jadvyga Putinienė	Soviet Union	57.28
11	Elena Burgárová	Czechoslovakia	57.22
12	Ivanka Wantschewa	Bulgaria	53.10

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  Vice European Champion Tessa Sanderson - she continued her career for many years, her greatest success: the Olympic victory in  1984

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  Éva Ráduly-Zörgő came in fifth place and also achieved in the years after 1978 other top positions at the Olympic Games and World Championships

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 13, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed August 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 13, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 435 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 13, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed August 13, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Javelin Throw Women , p. 68 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on August 13, 2019