European Athletics Championships 1978/400 m hurdles for women

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles for women
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	28 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	September 1st (preliminary) September 2nd (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Tatiana Selenzowa ( URS )
silver	Silvia Hollmann ( FRG )
bronze	Karin Roßley ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The 400-meter hurdles for women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 1 and 2 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held. For the women, this competition was on the program of a major international championship for the first time and was well attended with 28 participants.

Tatiana Selenzowa from the Soviet Union became European champion , who improved her own world record in the final and was the first athlete to stay under 55 seconds on this route. Second place went to Silvia Hollmann from the Federal Republic of Germany. Bronze went to the GDR runner Karin Roßley .

Records

Existing records

World record	55.31 s	Tatiana Selentsova	Podolsk , Soviet Union (now Russia )	19th August 1978
European record
Championship record	held for the first time at European Championships

New championship record

After four first championship records by various runners in the preliminary and semi-finals, European champion Tatiana Selenzowa set the European Championship record with 54.89 seconds in the final on September 2nd, which was valid for four years after these European championships. During this time, she also improved her own world record by 42 hundredths of a second.

Preliminary round

September 1, 1978, 6:40 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

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brigitte Koehn	GDR	56.83 CR
2	Krystyna Kacperczyk	Poland	57.18
3	Erika Weinstein	BR Germany	57.56
4th	Mary Appleby	Ireland	57.66
5	Éva Mohácsi	Hungary	59.61 PB
6th	Rosa-Maria Colorado	Spain	59.76 SB
7th	Kristianne Staut	Belgium	68.51 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silvia Hollmann	BR Germany	57.50
2	Karin Rossley	GDR	58.07
3	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	58.12 NU23R
4th	Ingrīda Barkāne	Soviet Union	58.29
5	Doina Badescu	Romania	59.72 PB
6th	Wilma Hillen	Netherlands	59.97 PB
7th	Kamila Josefíková	Czechoslovakia	60.61 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Elisabeth Sutherland	Great Britain	57.61 PB
2	Marina Makeyeva	Soviet Union	57.66
3	Lea Alaerts	Belgium	57.74
4th	Genowefa Blaszak	Poland	58.11
5	Anne Aren	Sweden	59.32 PB
6th	Montserrat Pujol	Spain	60.21 SB
7th	Dana Wildová	Czechoslovakia	60.97 PB

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anita white	GDR	56.19 CR
2	Tatiana Selentsova	Soviet Union	56.44
3	Anne Michel	Belgium	58.19 PB
4th	Svilenka Filipova	Bulgaria	58.31 PB
5	Daniele Lairloup	France	58.47 PB
6th	Lisbeth Helbling	Switzerland	58.57 PB
7th	Hana Slámová	Czechoslovakia	60.77 PB

Semifinals

September 2, 1978, 10:30 a.m.

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silvia Hollmann	BR Germany	56.08 CR
2	Anita white	GDR	56.19
3	Krystyna Kacperczyk	Poland	56.20
4th	Karin Rossley	GDR	56.27
5	Mary Appleby	Ireland	57.36 NU23R
6th	Marina Makeyeva	Soviet Union	57.49 SB
7th	Lea Alaerts	Belgium	57.68 PB
DNF	Svilenka Filipova	Bulgaria

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Selentsova	Soviet Union	55.89 CR
2	Ingrīda Barkāne	Soviet Union	56.32
3	Brigitte Koehn	GDR	56.55
4th	Genowefa Blaszak	Poland	56.67 SB
5	Erika Weinstein	BR Germany	57.22 PB
6th	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	58.35
7th	Anne Michel	Belgium	58.67
8th	Elisabeth Sutherland	Great Britain	62.83

final

Bronze medalist Karin Roßley (right) and Anita Weiß, who came in sixth. at the GDR championships in 1978

September 2, 1978, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Selentsova	Soviet Union	54.89 WR
2	Silvia Hollmann	BR Germany	55.14 DR
3	Karin Rossley	GDR	55.36 SB
4th	Brigitte Koehn	GDR	55.46 PB
5	Krystyna Kacperczyk	Poland	55.55
6th	Anita white	GDR	55.63 PB
7th	Ingrīda Barkāne	Soviet Union	55.96 PB
8th	Genowefa Blaszak	Poland	57.72

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 10, 2019
• 1978 European Championship Prague, Women 400m Hurdles 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 400m Hurdles European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 434, Spanish / English (PDF, 13,363 kB) on european-athletics.org, accessed on August 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, 400 m hurdles 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. 400m hurdles women , accessed on August 10, 2019