European Athletics Championships 1978/1500 m women

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500-meter run for women
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 1st (preliminary) September 3rd (final)
Medalists
gold	Giana Romanowa ( URS )
silver	Natalia Mărășescu ( ROM )
bronze	Totka Petrowa ( BUL )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The 1500 Meters of women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 1 and 3 September 1978 Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

European champion was Giana Romanowa from the USSR. She won ahead of the Romanian Natalia Mărăşescu , former Natalia Andrei, who had already won silver over 3000 meters five days earlier . Bronze went to the Bulgarian Totka Petrowa .

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 56.0 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Podolsk , Soviet Union (now Russia )	September 9, 1972
European record
EM record	4: 02.25 min	Gunhild Hoffmeister	EM Rome , Italy	September 8, 1974

Record improvement

European champion Giana Romanowa improved the existing championship record in the final on September 3rd by 3.24 seconds to 3: 59.01 minutes.

Preliminary round

September 1, 1978

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	4: 11.50
2	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 11.5
3	Wesela Jatsinska	Bulgaria	4: 11.7
4th	Giana Romanova	Soviet Union	4: 11.8
5	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4: 11.8
6th	Brigitte Kraus	BR Germany	4: 11.9
7th	Mary Stewart	Great Britain	4: 17.5 SB
8th	Tineke Kluft	Netherlands	4: 17.7 PB
9	Irish Lipcsei	Hungary	4: 20.2 PB
10	Fernande Schmitt	Luxembourg	4: 31.3 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4: 05.76
2	Maricica Puică	Romania	4: 06.1 SB
3	Valentina Ilyinich	Soviet Union	4: 06.3
4th	Grete Waitz	Norway	4: 06.3
5	Ludmila Kalnitskaya	Soviet Union	4: 06.7
6th	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	4: 07.2
7th	Christine Benning	Great Britain	4: 11.8
8th	Magdolna Lázár	Hungary	4: 14.4 PB
9	Drahomíra Zvoníčková	Czechoslovakia	4: 19.2 PB
10	Véronique Renties	France	4: 40.3 SB

final

As before over 3000 meters , Natalia Mărăşescu was vice European champion - the following year she was banned for doping abuse, as was Maricica Puică
.

September 3, 1978, 6:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Giana Romanova	Soviet Union	3: 59.77 CR
2	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	3: 59.80 SB
3	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	4: 00.15 NU23R
4th	Valentina Ilyinich	Soviet Union	4: 00.18 PB
5	Grete Waitz	Norway	4: 00.55 NO
6th	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 01.25 NU23R
7th	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	4: 02.20
8th	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4: 04.60 SB
9	Wesela Jatsinska	Bulgaria	4: 04.73 SB
10	Ludmila Kalnitskaya	Soviet Union	4: 06.6
11	Maricica Puică	Romania	4: 09.3
12	Christine Benning	Great Britain	4: 11.5 SB

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  Grete Waitz, under their name Grete Andresen EM -Third of 1974 , here was ranked five, over 3000 meters they had previously won bronze five days - in the course of her career she was a world-class marathon runner

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  Like three days before, Ulrike Bruns came seventh over 800 meters

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  Maricica Puică, fourth over 3000 meters five days earlier, reached eleventh place - the following year she, like Natalia Mărășescu, was banned for doping abuse.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 10, 2019
• Women 1500m European Championship 1978 Prague on 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 1500m 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, 1500 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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed August 10, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Brigitte Berendonk, Doping Documents: Von der Forschung zum Fraud , p. 33, accessed on August 10, 2019