European Athletics Championships 1978 / men's triple jump
| 12th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | Men's triple jump |
| city |
Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic 
|
| Stadion | Evžena Rošického Stadium |
| Attendees | 15 athletes from 8 countries |
| Competition phase | September 3 |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Milos Srejović ( YUG )
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 silver |
Viktor Saneyev ( URS )
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 bronze |
Anatoli Piskulin ( URS )
|
The triple jump men at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 3 September 1978 Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.
With silver and bronze, the Soviet three-jumpers won two medals in this competition. European champion was the Yugoslav Milos Srejović . He won in front of the triple Olympic champion ( 1968 / 1972 / 1976 ) and two-time European champion ( 1969 / 1974 ) Wiktor Sanejew . Bronze went to Anatoli Piskulin .
Existing records
| World record | 17.89 m |
.svg){kind=small} João Carlos de Oliveira
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Mexico City , Mexico | 15th October 1975 |
| European record | 17.44 m |
Viktor Saneyev
|
Sukhumi , USSR (now Abkhazia in Georgia ) | 17th October 1972 |
| EM record | 17.34 m | EM Athens , Greece | 17th September 1969 |
The European Championship record of 17.34 m, which has existed since 1969, was not set at these European championships and not improved.
execution
With only fifteen participants, the qualification scheduled for September 2, 1978, 9:30 a.m. was not applicable. All three jumpers competed together for the final on the following day.
final
September 3, 1978, 5:00 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milos Srejović |
Yugoslavia
|
16.94 SB |
| 2 | Viktor Saneyev |
Soviet Union
|
16.93 SB |
| 3 | Anatoly Piskulin |
Soviet Union
|
16.87 |
| 4th | Bernard Lamitié |
 France
|
16.87 SB |
| 5 | Henads Valyukevich |
Soviet Union
|
16.64 SB |
| 6th | Keith Connor |
 Great Britain
|
16.64 SB |
| 7th | Milan Spasojevic |
Yugoslavia
|
16.62 SB |
| 8th | Aston Moore |
Great Britain
|
16.55 SB |
| 9 | János Hegedis |
Yugoslavia
|
16.24 SB |
| 10 | Eugeniusz Biskupski |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
16.23 SB |
| 11 | Lothar Gora |
 GDR
|
16.20 SB |
| 12 | Gábor Katona |
 Hungary
|
16.18 |
| 13 | Karel Hradil |
Czechoslovakia
|
16.05 |
| 14th | Carol Corbu |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
|
16.02 SB |
| 15th | Béla Bakosi |
Hungary
|
15.74 SB |
Lothar Gora, EM -Sechster 1974 , reached this time in eleventh place
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 3, 2019
- 1978 European Championship Prague, Men Triple Jump on todor66.com, accessed August 3, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 3, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Triple Jump European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 430 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 3, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, triple jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 3, 2019
- 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 3, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed July 13, 2019
- ↑ For Lothar Gora, the sources at european-athletics.org ( European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978) as well as in the Statistics Handbook ( Men Triple Jump European Championship 1978 Praha , p. 430) contain incorrect information about the athlete's nationality. Gora is listed there as a Pole, that's right, but it's GDR. Gora's nationality is documented on the-sports.org ( Athletics - Lothar Gora ) and european-athletics.org ( Lothar Gora )