European Athletics Championships 1978 / Women's discus throw

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	14 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 31
Medalists
gold	Evelin Jahl ( GDR )
silver	Margitta Droese ( GDR )
bronze	Natalja Gorbacheva ( URS )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The discus throw of women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 31 August 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

In this competition the throwers from the GDR achieved a double victory. European champion became the world record holder Evelin Jahl , who had become Olympic champion two years earlier under her name Evelin Schlaak . Second place went to third-place shot put Margitta Droese . Bronze went to Natalja Gorbacheva from the USSR.

Existing records

World record	70.72 m	Evelin Jahl	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	August 12, 1978
European record
EM record	69.00 m	Faina Melnik	EM Rome , Italy	September 6, 1974

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

execution

With only fourteen participants there was no qualification, all athletes went to the final together.

final

August 31, 1978

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Evelin Jahl	GDR	66.98
2	Margitta Droese	GDR	64.04
3	Natalia Gorbacheva	Soviet Union	63.58 SB
4th	Sabine Engel	GDR	63.46 SB
5	Faina Welewa	Soviet Union	62.30
6th	Svetla Boschkowa	Bulgaria	61.94 SB
7th	Lyudmila Isayeva	Soviet Union	61.56 SB
8th	Jitka Prouzová	Czechoslovakia	59.90 SB
9	Argentina Menis	Romania	58.36
10	Ágnes Herczeg	Hungary	57.94
11	Rita Pfister	Switzerland	53.78
12	Ingra Manecke	BR Germany	52.92
13	Meg Ritchie	Great Britain	52.64
14th	Marcela Pilárová	Czechoslovakia	50.34

The winner Evelin Jahl had the following test series:
62.02 m - x - 65.74 m - 66.98 m - 62.26 m - 63.26 m

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  Faina Welewa, under their name Faina Melnik Olympic champion in 1972 and two-time European champion ( 1971 / 1974 ), reached number five - there is to see them on an Armenian stamp

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  The Olympic runner-up in 1972 and EC runner-up in 1974 Argentina Menis came in ninth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 12, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed August 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 434f (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 12, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed August 12, 2019