European Athletics Championships 1978/100 m men
| 12th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | Men's 100-meter run |
| city |
Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic 
|
| Stadion | Evžena Rošického Stadium |
| Attendees | 28 athletes from 15 countries |
| Competition phase | August 29th (preliminary) August 30th (semi-finals) August 30th (final) |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Pietro Mennea ( URS )
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 silver |
Eugen Ray ( GDR )
 |
 bronze |
Volodymyr Ihnatenko ( URS )
|
The 100-meter race of the men at the 1978 European Athletics Championships on 29 and 30 August 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.
European champion was the Italian Pietro Mennea , who had become vice European champion over 100 meters and European champion over 200 meters in 1974 . He won ahead of the GDR sprinter Eugen Ray . Bronze went to Volodymyr Ihnatenko from the Soviet Union.
Records
Existing records
| World record | 9.95 s |
 Jim Hines
|
Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico | October 14, 1968 |
| European record | 10.07 s |
Valery Borsov
|
Olympic Games Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) | August 31, 1972 |
| EM record | 10.27 s | EM Helsinki , Finland | August 11, 1971 |
Record improvement
European champion Pietro Mennea improved the existing championship record in the second run on August 29 by eight hundredths of a second to 10.19 s.
Preliminary round
August 29, 1978, 5:45 p.m.
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: ± 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allan Wells |
 Great Britain
|
10.40 |
| 2 | Valery Borsov |
Soviet Union
|
10.50 SB |
| 3 | Joseph Arame |
 France
|
10.59 |
| 4th | Lambert Micha |
 Belgium
|
10.63 SB |
| 5 | Franco Fähndrich |
 Switzerland
|
10.64 SB |
| 6th | Ladislav Latocha |
Czechoslovakia
|
10.73 PB |
| 7th | Ivailo Karanyotov |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
|
10.78 SB |
Forward 2
Wind: ± 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pietro Mennea |
Italy
|
10.19 CR |
| 2 | Leszek Dunecki |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
10.31 SB |
| 3 | Volodymyr Ihnatenko |
Soviet Union
|
10.38 |
| 4th | Dragan Zaric |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
10.59 PB |
| 5 | Ronald Desruelles |
Belgium
|
10.60 SB |
| 6th | Stefan Nilsson |
 Sweden
|
10.62 |
| 7th | Otakar Wild |
Czechoslovakia
|
10.73 PB |
Forward 3
Wind: ± 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eugene Ray |
GDR
|
10.30 SB |
| 2 | Marian Voronin |
Poland
|
10.50 SB |
| 3 | Stefano Curini |
Italy
|
10.58 PB |
| 4th | Kenth Rönn |
Sweden
|
10.58 PB |
| 5 | Pierrick Thessard |
France
|
10.79 |
| 6th | Gernot Assing |
 Austria
|
10.86 SB |
| 7th | Weselin Panow |
Bulgaria
|
10.90 PB |
Forward 4
Wind: ± 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petar Petrov |
Bulgaria
|
10.44 |
| 2 | Nikolai Kolesnikov |
Soviet Union
|
10.49 |
| 3 | Lambros Kefalas |
.svg){kind=small} Greece
|
10.53 SB |
| 4th | Giovanni Grazioli |
Italy
|
10.55 SB |
| 5 | Alexander Thieme |
GDR
|
10.55 SB |
| 6th | Zdeněk Mazur |
Czechoslovakia
|
10.73 SB |
| 7th | Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson |
 Iceland
|
10.76 PB |
Semifinals
August 30, 1978
In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
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Run 1
Wind: ± 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pietro Mennea |
Italy
|
10.26 |
| 2 | Volodymyr Ihnatenko |
Soviet Union
|
10.45 |
| 3 | Petar Petrov |
Bulgaria
|
10.46 |
| 4th | Valery Borsov |
Soviet Union
|
10.53 |
| 5 | Marian Voronin |
Poland
|
10.54 |
| 6th | Kenth Rönn |
Sweden
|
10.63 |
| 7th | Stefano Curini |
Italy
|
10.72 |
| 8th | Lambert Micha |
Belgium
|
10.74 |
Run 2
Wind: -0.8 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eugene Ray |
GDR
|
10.30 SBe |
| 2 | Allan Wells |
Great Britain
|
10.38 |
| 3 | Leszek Dunecki |
Poland
|
10.38 SB |
| 4th | Nikolai Kolesnikov |
Soviet Union
|
10.43 PB |
| 5 | Giovanni Grazioli |
Italy
|
10.58 |
| 6th | Lambros Kefalas |
Greece
|
10.60 |
| 7th | Joseph Arame |
France
|
10.64 |
| 8th | Dragan Zaric |
Yugoslavia
|
10.69 |
final
.PNG)
August 30, 1978, 7:00 p.m.
Wind: ± 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pietro Mennea |
Italy
|
10.27 |
| 2 | Eugene Ray |
GDR
|
10.36 |
| 3 | Volodymyr Ihnatenko |
Soviet Union
|
10.37 PB |
| 4th | Petar Petrov |
Bulgaria
|
10.41 SB |
| 5 | Leszek Dunecki |
Poland
|
10.43 |
| 6th | Allan Wells |
Great Britain
|
10.45 |
| 7th | Nikolai Kolesnikov |
Soviet Union
|
10.46 |
| 8th | Valery Borsov |
Soviet Union
|
10.55 |
Vice European Champion Eugen Ray (right)
Leszek Dunecki came in fifth
The double Olympic champion from 1972 , four-time European champion and defending champion Valery Borsov (here in 2012) finished eighth in this final
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 26, 2019
- European Championship 1978 Prague, Men 100m on todor66.com, accessed July 26, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 26, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 427, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 26, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 26, 2019
- 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on July 26, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed July 26, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 6 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 26, 2019