European Athletics Championships 1978 / men's hammer throw
| 12th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | Men's hammer throw |
| city |
Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic 
|
| Stadion | Evžena Rošického Stadium |
| Attendees | 20 athletes from 11 countries |
| Competition phase | September 1st (qualification) September 2nd (final) |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Jurij Sedych ( URS )
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 silver |
Roland Steuk ( GDR )
 |
 bronze |
Karl-Hans Riehm ( FRG )
 |
The hammer throw men in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 1 and 2 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.
European champion was the Soviet Olympic champion from 1976 Jurij Sedych . He won ahead of Roland Steuk from the GDR. Bronze went to the German world record holder Karl-Hans Riehm .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 80.32 m |
Karl-Hans Riehm
|
Heidenheim , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) | August 6, 1978 |
| European record | ||||
| EM record | 74.68 m |
Anatoly Bondarchuk
|
EM Athens , Greece | 20th September 1969 |
Record improvement
European champion Jurij Sedych improved the existing championship record in the final on September 2nd by 2.60 m to 77.28 m.
qualification
September 1, 1978, 9:30 a.m.
Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 70.00 m. Since only eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athlete to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 69.84 m was enough for the final.
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roland Steuk |
GDR
|
73.22 |
| 2 | Karl-Hans Riehm |
BR Germany
|
73.06 |
| 3 | Giampaolo Urlando |
 Italy
|
73.04 SB |
| 4th | Detlef Gerstenberg |
GDR
|
72.80 |
| 5 | Yury Sjedych |
Soviet Union
|
71.36 |
| 6th | Boris Saitschuk |
Soviet Union
|
71.34 |
| 7th | Manfred Hüning |
BR Germany
|
71.18 |
| 8th | Klaus Ploghaus |
BR Germany
|
70.86 SB |
| 9 | Jochen Sachse |
GDR
|
70.62 |
| 10 | Edoardo Podberscek |
Italy
|
70.26 |
| 11 | Gábor Tamás |
 Hungary
|
70.04 |
| 12 | Harri Huhtala |
 Finland
|
69.84 |
| 13 | Orlando Bianchini |
Italy
|
69.78 SB |
| 14th | Emanuil Dulgerow |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
|
68.96 SB |
| 15th | Aleksandr Malyukov |
Soviet Union
|
68.78 SB |
| 16 | Richard Olsen |
 Norway
|
68.56 SB |
| 17th | Jacques Accambray |
 France
|
67.78 SB |
| 18th | Philippe Suriray |
France
|
66.78 |
| 19th | Radomil Skoumal |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
65.44 SB |
| 20th | Chris Black |
 Great Britain
|
63.54 SB |
final
September 2, 1978, 3 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yury Sjedych |
Soviet Union
|
77.28 CR |
| 2 | Roland Steuk |
GDR
|
77.24 |
| 3 | Karl-Hans Riehm |
BR Germany
|
77.02 |
| 4th | Detlef Gerstenberg |
GDR
|
76.70 SB |
| 5 | Manfred Hüning |
BR Germany
|
76.46 SB |
| 6th | Boris Saitschuk |
Soviet Union
|
75.62 |
| 7th | Edoardo Podberscek |
Italy
|
73.02 SB |
| 8th | Giampaolo Urlando |
Italy
|
72.62 |
| 9 | Jochen Sachse |
GDR
|
71.56 SB |
| 10 | Gábor Tamás |
Hungary
|
70.72 SB |
| 11 | Harri Huhtala |
Finland
|
69.92 SB |
| 12 | Klaus Ploghaus |
BR Germany
|
69.30 |
The medal winners recorded the following litter series:
- Jurij Sedych: 72.28 m - 75.92 m - 75.54 m - x - 77.28 m
- Roland Steuk: 75.30 m - 73.24 m - 75.10 m - 76.50 m - 77.16 m - 77.24 m
- Karl-Hans Riehm: 76.50 m - 76.40 m - 76.90 m - 75.66 m - x - 77.02 m
Here it becomes clear how tight it was. These three throwers achieved their best scores in the last attempt.
Detlef Gerstenberg reached fourth place
Jochen Sachse, Vice European Champion from 1974 , had to settle for ninth place here
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 at european-athletics.org, accessed August 6, 2019
- 1978 European Championship Prague, Men Hammer Throw 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 Hammer Throw 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, hammer 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed August 6, 2019