European Athletics Championships 1978 / Men's discus throw

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (qualification) September 3rd (final)
Medalist
gold	Wolfgang Schmidt ( GDR )
silver	Markku Tuokko ( FIN )
bronze	Imrich Bugár ( CSK )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The discus throw men at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 2 and 3 September 1978 Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

European champion was the 1976 Olympic runner-up and world record holder Wolfgang Schmidt from the GDR, who had already won bronze in the shot put two days earlier . Markku Tuokko from Finland took second place . The Czechoslovak Imrich Bugár came third.

Records

Existing records

World record	71.16 m	Wolfgang Schmidt	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	August 9, 1978
European record
EM record	63.90 m	Ludvík Daněk	EM Helsinki , Finland	15th August 1971

Record improvement

European champion Wolfgang Schmidt improved the existing EM record in the final on September 3rd by 2.92 m to 66.82 m.

qualification

September 2, 1978, 9:30 a.m.

Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 60.00 m. Since only nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 59.28 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	67.20
2	Wolfgang Warnemünde	GDR	63.80 SB
3	Markku Tuokko	Finland	62.82
4th	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	62.36
5	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	62.04
6th	Ihor Duhinez	Soviet Union	61.51
7th	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	60.96
8th	Dmitri Kovzun	Soviet Union	60.96 SB
9	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland	60.86
10	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	59.82
11	Welko Welew	Bulgaria	59.62
12	Silvano Simeon	Italy	59.28 SB
13	Werner Hartmann	BR Germany	59.14
14th	Dariusz Juzyszyn	Poland	58.86 SB
15th	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	58.60 SB
16	Armando De Vincentis	Italy	58.20 SB
17th	Frédéric Piette	France	57.54 SB
18th	Josef Šilhavý	Czechoslovakia	57.28 SB
19th	Juhani Tuomola	Finland	56.38
20th	János Faragó	Hungary	5614 SB

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  As fourteenth in the qualification, Dariusz Juzyszyn missed the final by almost half a meter

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  The European champion from 1971 and Olympic champion from 1972 Ludvík Daněk (here in 2014) no longer had the shape of earlier days and was eliminated in the qualification

final

September 3, 1978, 5:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	64.04	61.68	64.52	62.08	65.94	66.82	66.82 CR
2	Markku Tuokko	Finland	58.84	x	62.48	63.46	64.90	x	64.90 SB
3	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	62.88	64.24	64.66	x	x	?	64.66 SB
4th	Welko Welew	Bulgaria	62.22	59.50	x	64.56	61.06	63.06	64.56
5	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	61.72	x	60.52	62.80	63.76	x	63.76 SB
6th	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	x	61.70	60.50	60.18	x	62.70	62.70 SB
7th	Dmitri Kovzun	Soviet Union	60.76	x	x	61.84	61.40	61.46	61.84 SB
8th	Wolfgang Warnemünde	GDR	61.28	61.14	60.12	60.56	x	x	61.28
9	Ferenc Tégla	Hungary	not in the final of the eight best throwers						60.22 SB
10	Ihor Duhinez	Soviet Union							59.80
11	Óskar Jakobsson	Iceland							59.44
12	Silvano Simeon	Italy							59.16

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  European champion Wolfgang Schmidt, two days earlier shot put third, Olympic second in 1976 and world record holder - he subsequently had major problems with the political system of the GDR, but continued his career after German reunification with a few other successes

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  Bronze medalist Imrich Bugár (here in 2013) - later winner of numerous medals, including Olympic silver in 1980 , EM gold in 1982 ,
  WM gold in 1983

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  Knut Hjeltnes came in fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 at european-athletics.org, accessed August 6, 2019
• 1978 European Championship Prague, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed August 6, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 6, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 430 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 6, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed August 6, 2019