European Athletics Championships 1978 / Women's Pentathlon

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's Pentathlon
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	25 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd
Medalists
gold	Margit Papp ( HUN )
silver	Burglinde Pollak ( GDR )
bronze	Kristine Nitzsche ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The Pentathlon of women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 2 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

With the 800-meter run , a middle distance became part of this competition for the first time . This discipline replaced the 200-meter run as the final exercise. However, that was only a temporary change. The pentathlon was last played as a women's all- around event at the European Championships. After the competition at the 1980 Olympic Games was on the program again in this form, it was then replaced by the heptathlon at all major international championships .

In the pentathlon, the GDR athletes won two medals with silver and bronze at these European championships. The Hungarian Margit Papp won . As at the two previous European Championships in 1971 and 1974, Burglinde Pollak took second place , who had also collected two Olympic bronze medals in 1972 and 1976 . Kristine Nitzsche came third .

Records

Existing records

World record	4839 P 1977 value.	4913 P 1985 value.	Nadia Tkachenko	Lille , France	18th September 1977
European record
EM record	4776 P 1971 value.	4826 P 1985 value.		EM Rome , Italy	4th September 1974

New championship record

Due to the new composition of the five exercises in this all-around competition - the 800-meter run instead of the 200-meter run - the scores from earlier competitions were not comparable with the results after the new form of competition. Thus, the European champion Margit Papp set a new championship record with her 4655 points - 4694 P according to today's rating system for the heptathlon .  

doping

There were two doping cases in this competition:

• Originally, the Soviet athlete Nadija Tkachenko was ahead with 4744 points. However, the title was subsequently revoked for a doping offense .
• The first fifth place Jekaterina Gordijenko, also from the USSR, was also subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations.

The athletes, who were initially placed behind Tkachenko and Gordijenko in the final, moved up one rank each.

Rating

Valuation was based on the points table from 1977, in which a change of discipline in this competition was taken into account. Because instead of the 200-meter run , the final exercise was the 800-meter run .

For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved for the heptathlon according to the current rating system from 1985 are listed for comparison . After that there would have been a change in the placements: the silver and bronze medals would have to be swapped.
But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Result

2nd September 1978

space	Surname	nation	Points official scoring	Points 1985 rating		100 m hurdles	Bullet poking	High jump		Long jump	800 m
1	Margit Papp	Hungary	4655 CR	4694		13.70 s	15.41 m	1.81 m		6.22 m	2: 16.2 min
2	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	4600 SB	4614		13.48 s	16.64 m	1.65 m		6.17 m	2: 15.0 min
3	Kristine Nitzsche	GDR	4599 PB	4648		14.02 s	12.77 m	1.93 m		6.13 m	2: 12.7 min
4th	Beatrix Philipp	BR Germany	4554 PB	4582		14.65 s	17.95 m	1.77 m		6.03 m	2: 19.2 min
5	Ekaterina Smirnova	Soviet Union	4534 PB	4545		13.43 s	14.10 m	1.79 m		6.13 m	2: 19.7 min
6th	Ramona Neubert	GDR	4380 SB	4381		14.14 s	13.29 m	1.75 m		6.33 m	2: 21.3 min
7th	Ina Losch	BR Germany	4319 PB	4302		15.03 s	12.14 m	1.79 m		6.23 m	2: 13.97 min
8th	Florence Picaut	France	4307 PB	4281		13.98 s	13.16 m	1.83 m		5.80 m	2: 25.0 min
9	Marcela Koblasová	Czechoslovakia	4210 PB	4161		14.35 s	13.38 m	1.71 m		6.00 m	2: 24.6 min
10	Cornelia Sulek	BR Germany	4202 PB	4143		14.66 s	14.78 m	1.79 m		5.44 m	2: 24.7 min
11	Els Stolk	Netherlands	4190 PB	4135		14.72 s	12.22 m	1.77 m		5.83 m	2: 18.73 min
12	Sylvia Barlag	Netherlands	4184 SB	4143		14.47 s	11.56 m	1.79 m		5.91 m	2: 21.0 min
13	Yvette Wray	Great Britain	4171 SB	4103		13.96 s	12.04 m	1.67 m		5.83 m	2: 18.9 min
14th	Angela Weiss	Switzerland	4165 PB	4114		14.03 s	11.18 m	1.73 m		5.94 m	2: 20.9 min
15th	Gabriela Ionescu	Romania	4145 PB	4094		14.52 s	11.29 m	1.71 m		6.06 m	2: 18.9 min
16	Breda Lorenci	Yugoslavia	4144 PB	4064		14.36 s	12.86 m	1.71 m		5.60 m	2: 20.1 min
17th	Sue Mapstone	Great Britain	3993 SB	3906		14.28 s	10.99 m	1.73 m		5.58 m	2: 24.8 min
18th	Annette Tånnander	Sweden	3364 SB	3286		14.80 s	11.35 m	1.85 m		5.70 m	DNF
DNF	Danuta Caly	Poland				14.48 s	12.99 m	1.77 m		NM	DNS
DOP	Nadia Tkachenko	Soviet Union				13.32 s	15.11 m	1.79 m		6.31 m	2: 12.25 min
	Ekaterina Gordiyenko	Soviet Union				13.95 s	14.64 m	1.79 m		6.17 m	2: 14.6 min

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  Burglinde Pollak became vice European champion for the third time in a row; she won bronze at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976 , only the gold was missing from her collection

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  Sylvia Barlag, eliminated three days earlier in the long jump qualification, came in twelfth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 13, 2019
• 1978 Women Pentathlon European Championship Prague on todor66.com, accessed August 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 13, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Pentathlon European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 435 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, pentathlon women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 13, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pentathlon , p. 78 (PDF, 271 kB) accessed on August 13, 2019 (Spanish / English)
2. ↑ Incredible Fear , Spiegel Online October 4, 1982 at spiegel.de, accessed on August 4, 2019
3. ↑ LA84 Foundation, Within the IFs on digital.la84.org, p. 722, accessed on August 14, 2019