European Athletics Championships 1978/800 m women

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	22 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 30th (semi-finals) August 31st (final)
Medalists
gold	Tatiana Prowidochina ( URS )
silver	Nadezhda Mushta ( URS )
bronze	Soy Rigel ( URS )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The 800-meter race of women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was from 29 to 31 August 1978 in the stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

In this competition there was a triple victory for the runners from the Soviet Union. Tatiana Prowidochina became European champion . She won ahead of Nadezhda Mushta . Bronze went to Soja Rigel .

Records

Existing records

World record	1: 54.94 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Montreal OS , Canada	July 26, 1976
European record
EM record	1: 58.14 min	Liljana Tomowa	EM Rome , Italy	4th September 1974

Record improvement

European champion Tatiana Prowidochina improved the existing championship record in the final on August 31 by 2.34 seconds to 1: 55.80 minutes.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1978

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tatiana Prowidochina	Soviet Union	1: 59.96
2	Fița Lovin	Romania	2: 00.0
3	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	2: 00.38
4th	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2: 00.4 SB
5	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2: 01.3 SB
6th	Jane Colebrook	Great Britain	2: 03.0
7th	Maria Ritter	Liechtenstein	2: 09.0 SB

Forward 2

As a sixth-forward their Elly van Hulst difference (right) from

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hildegard Ullrich	GDR	2: 01.39
2	Soy Rigel	Soviet Union	2: 01.6
3	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2: 01.8
4th	Irish Lipcsei	Hungary	2: 02.3 PB
5	Eleonora Tarita	Romania	2: 02.9
6th	Janet Prictoe	Great Britain	2: 03.7 PB
7th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	2: 03.9 SB
8th	Jindriska Kubeckova	Czechoslovakia	2: 04.0 SB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	2: 01.67
2	Anita white	GDR	2: 01.8
3	Jozefina Cerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	2: 02.0 SB
4th	Liz Barnes	Great Britain	2: 02.1
5	Mariana Suman	Romania	2: 02.2
6th	Marie-Rose Verhoeven	Belgium	2: 04.5 PB
7th	Fernande Schmitt	Luxembourg	2: 04.7 PB

Semifinals

August 30, 1978, 7:10 p.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 (min)
1	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	1: 58.8
2	Anita white	GDR	1: 58.8
3	Fița Lovin	Romania	1: 58.8 SB
4th	Soy Rigel	Soviet Union	1: 58.9
5	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2: 00.5
6th	Eleonora Tarita	Romania	2: 01.7
7th	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2: 06.2
8th	Irish Lipcsei	Hungary	2: 06.8

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tatiana Prowidochina	Soviet Union	2: 00.06
2	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2: 00.2
3	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	2: 00.3
4th	Hildegard Ullrich	GDR	2: 00.6
5	Mariana Suman	Romania	2: 01.62 SB
6th	Liz Barnes	Great Britain	2: 01.69 PB
7th	Jane Colebrook	Great Britain	2: 02.9 SB
8th	Jozefina Cerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	2: 07.0

final

Hildegard Ullrich (in the photo in a leading position) , later Hildegard Körner, came in fifth

August 31, 1978

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tatiana Prowidochina	Soviet Union	1: 55.80 CR
2	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	1: 55.82 SB
3	Soy Rigel	Soviet Union	1: 56.57 PB
4th	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	1: 56.59
5	Hildegard Ullrich	GDR	1: 57.45 NU23R
6th	Anita white	GDR	1: 57.71
7th	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	1: 58.62 SB
8th	Fița Lovin	Romania	1: 58.82

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  Anita Weiß (left) , former Anita Barkusky, reached sixth place

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  Ulrike Bruns took like three days later over 1500 meters in seventh

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  Fița Lovin was eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 10, 2019
• Women 800m 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 800m 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, 800 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. 800m women , accessed August 10, 2019