European Athletics Championships 1978/3000 m women

12th European Athletics Championships
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 stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

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

Like later over 1500 meters , Natalia Mărăşescu won silver - the following year, like Maricica Puică, she was banned for doping abuse.

Grete Waitz, under their name Grete Andresen EM -Third of 1974 , won bronze here over 1500 meters she won five days later fifth - in the course of her career she was a world-class marathon runner

August 29, 1978

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Svetlana Ulmasowa	Soviet Union	8: 33.16 CR
2	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	8: 33.53 PB
3	Grete Waitz	Norway	8: 34.33
4th	Maricica Puică	Romania	8: 40.94 SB
5	Giana Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 45.74
6th	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 46.13 SB
7th	Raisa Belousova	Soviet Union	8: 48.73 SB
8th	Paula Fudge	Great Britain	8: 48.74 PB
9	Ann Ford	Great Britain	8: 53.08 PB
10	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	9: 02.87 SB
11	Magdolna Lázár	Hungary	9: 05.14 PB
12	Joëlle De Brouwer	France	9: 05.21 PB
13	Glynis Penny	Great Britain	9: 08.9 PB
14th	Helena Ledvinová	Czechoslovakia	9: 10.9 PB
15th	Mary Purcell	Ireland	9: 11.9
16	Loa Olafsson	Denmark	9: 12.0
17th	Božena Sudická	Czechoslovakia	9: 12.9 PB
18th	Bernadette Van Roy	Belgium	9: 13.9 PB
19th	Deirdre Nagle	Ireland	9: 21.9 SB
20th	Daniele Justin	Belgium	9: 24.9 PB
21st	Carla Beurskens	Netherlands	9: 25.5 PB
22nd	Tineke Kluft	Netherlands	9: 31.0 PB
23	Carmen Valero	Spain	9: 34.0 PB
24	Miroslava Margoldová	Czechoslovakia	9: 36.1 PB
25th	Connie Olsen	Denmark	9: 40.6
DNF	Birgit Friedmann	BR Germany

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  Maricica Puică, five days later eleventh over 1500 meters, reached fourth place - the following year, like Natalia Mărăşescu, she was banned for doping abuse.

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  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

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  Carla Beurskens came in 21st

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

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 75 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 10, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Brigitte Berendonk, Doping Documents: Von der Forschung zum Fraud , p. 33, accessed on August 10, 2019