European Athletics Championships 1978/100 m women

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 30th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Marlies Göhr ( GDR )
silver	Linda Haglund ( SWE )
bronze	Lyudmila Maslakova ( URS )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The 100-meter race of women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships on 29 and 30 August 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

The world record holder Marlies Göhr from the GDR became the European champion . She won ahead of the Swede Linda Haglund . Bronze went to the Soviet sprinter Lyudmila Maslakowa .

Records

Existing records

World record	10.88 s	Marlies Goehr	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	July 1, 1977
European record
EM record	11.14 s	Irena Szewińska	EM Rome , Italy	3rd September 1974

Record improvement

European champion Marlies Göhr improved the existing championship record in the final on August 30th by a hundredth of a second to 11.13 s.  

Preliminary round

August 29, 1978

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlies Goehr	GDR	11.34
2	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.41
3	Laura Miano	Italy	11.52 PB
4th	Beverley Callender	Great Britain	11.53 SB
5	Helina Marjamaa	Finland	11.58 SB
6th	Annie Alize	France	11.61 PB
7th	Elvira Possekel	BR Germany	11.82 SB
8th	Tilly Verhoef	Netherlands	12.04 SB

Forward 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.23 PB
2	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	11.54 SB
3	Iwanka Walkowa	Bulgaria	11.61 SB
4th	Michelle Walsh	Ireland	11.70 SB
5	Véronique Rosset	France	11.77 PB
6th	Petra Sharp	BR Germany	11.84 PB
7th	Brigitte Haest	Austria	11.89 SB
8th	Ludmila Jimramovská	Czechoslovakia	11.91 PB

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.24 NU20R
2	Chantal Rega	France	11.38 SB
3	Lyudmila Storoschkowa	Soviet Union	11.38
4th	Monika Hamann	GDR	11.52
5	Sofka Popova	Bulgaria	11.65 SB
6th	Grazyna Holik	Poland	11.90 PB
7th	Ellie Henzen	Netherlands	12.04 PB

Semifinals

August 30, 1978, 5:00 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlies Goehr	GDR	11.27
2	Monika Hamann	GDR	11.43
3	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.51
4th	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	11.54
5	Laura Miano	Italy	11.71 SBe
6th	Véronique Rosset	France	11.80
7th	Sofka Popova	Bulgaria	11.87
8th	Annie Alize	France	11.87

Run 2

Wind: -1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.42
2	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.47
3	Lyudmila Storoschkowa	Soviet Union	11.52
4th	Chantal Rega	France	11.59
5	Beverley Callender	Great Britain	11.72
6th	Iwanka Walkowa	Bulgaria	11.80
7th	Helina Marjamaa	Finland	11.82
8th	Michelle Walsh	Ireland	11.95

European champion Marlies Göhr celebrated her first major international title after her world record run - she was twice European champion on this route, also the first world champion in 1983 and Olympic second in 1980 , and she also won numerous relay medals

final

August 30, 1978, 6:20 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlies Goehr	GDR	11.13 CR
2	Linda Haglund	Sweden	11.29
3	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	11.31
4th	Monika Hamann	GDR	11.33 SB
5	Lyudmila Storoschkowa	Soviet Union	11.33 SB
6th	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.38
7th	Chantal Rega	France	11.49
8th	Sonia Lannaman	Great Britain	11.67

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  Vice European Champion Linda Haglund (on the photo in 2013) - four years earlier she was eliminated in the semifinals

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  Like two days later, Monika Hamann came fourth over 200 meters , and like fifth-placed Lyudmila Kondratjewa, she only missed bronze here by two hundredths of a second

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 8, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women 100m on todor66.com, accessed August 8, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 8, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 432, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 8, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed August 8, 2019