European Athletics Championships 1978/4 × 100 m men
12th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | 4 × 100 m relay of men |
city |
Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic |
Stadion | Evžena Rošického Stadium |
Attendees | 10 relays with 40 athletes |
Competition phase | September 2nd (preliminary) September 3rd (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Poland |
silver | GDR |
bronze | Soviet Union |
The 4-by-100-meter relay team of men in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 2 and 3 September 1978 Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.
Poland became European champion in the line-up of Zenon Nowosz , Zenon Licznerski , Leszek Dunecki and Marian Woronin . Second place went to the GDR with Manfred Kokot , Eugen Ray , Olaf Prenzler and Alexander Thieme . Bronze went to the Soviet Union ( Sergei Wladimirzew , Nikolai Kolesnikow , Alexandr Aksinin , Volodymyr Ihnatenko ).
Records
Existing records
World record | 38.03 s |
USA ( Bill Collins , Steve Riddick , Cliff Wiley , Steve Williams ) |
Düsseldorf , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) | 3rd September 1977 |
European record | 38.43 s |
France ( Gérard Fenouil , Jocelyn Delecour , Claude Piquemal , Roger Bambuck ) |
OS Mexico City , Mexico | 20th October 1968 |
EM record | 38.69 s |
France ( Lucien Sainte-Rose , Joseph Arame , Bruno Cherrier , Dominique Chauvelot ) |
EM Rome , Italy | September 8, 1974 |
Record improvement
The European championship relay from Poland improved the existing EM record in the line-up of Zenon Nowosz , Zenon Licznerski , Leszek Dunecki and Marian Voronin in the final on September 3rd by eleven hundredths of a second to 38.58 s.
Preliminary round
September 2, 1978, 6:00 p.m.
The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
space | Season | occupation | Time (s) |
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1 | Poland |
Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Voronin |
39.20 |
2 | Italy |
Giovanni Grazioli Luciano Caravani Stefano Curini Pietro Mennea |
39.51 |
3 | Switzerland |
Franco Fähndrich Urs Gisler Peter Muster Hansjörg Ziegler |
39.87 |
4th | Great Britain |
Trevor Hoyte Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Stephen Green |
40.08 |
5 | Czechoslovakia |
Jan Cheben Otakar Wild Marian Kralik Luděk Bohman |
40.43 |
Forward 2
space | Season | occupation | Time (s) |
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1 | GDR |
Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme |
39.05 |
2 | Soviet Union |
Sergei Wladimirzew Nikolai Kolesnikow Alexandr Aksinin Volodymyr Ihnatenko |
39.21 |
3 | France |
Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Lucien Sainte-Rose Hermann Panzo |
39.45 |
4th | Belgium |
Ronald Desruelles Hans van den Daele Danny Roelandt Lambert Micha |
40.16 |
DNF | Bulgaria |
Ivailo Karanyotov Vladimir Ivanov Weselin Panow Petar Petrow |
final
September 3, 1978, 6:00 p.m.
space | Season | occupation | Time (s) |
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1 | Poland |
Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Voronin |
38.58 CR |
2 | GDR |
Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme |
38.78 SB |
3 | Soviet Union |
Sergei Wladimirzew Nikolai Kolesnikow Alexandr Aksinin Volodymyr Ihnatenko |
38.82 SB |
4th | France |
Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Lucien Sainte-Rose Hermann Panzo |
38.90 SB |
5 | Italy | Giovanni Grazioli Luciano Caravani Stefano Curini Pietro Mennea |
39.11 SB |
6th | Great Britain | Trevor Hoyte Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Stephen Green |
39.49 SB |
7th | Switzerland | Franco Fähndrich Urs Gisler Peter Muster Hansjörg Ziegler |
39.56 SB |
8th | Belgium |
Ronald Desruelles Hans van den Daele Danny Roelandt Lambert Micha |
39.73 SB |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 at european-athletics.org, accessed July 31, 2019
- Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 1978 Prague on todor66.com, accessed July 31, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 31, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 432 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 31, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, 4 × 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 31, 2019
- 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on July 31, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m , accessed on July 31, 2019
- ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 100 m at rfea.es, p. 35 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on July 31, 2019