European Athletics Championships 1978 / men's high jump

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Attendees	26 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 1st (qualification) September 2nd (final)
Medalist
gold	Vladimir Yashchenko ( URS )
silver	Aljaksandr Hryhorjeu ( URS )
bronze	Rolf Beilschmidt ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The high jump of the men at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 1 and 2 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

In this competition, the athletes from the USSR achieved a double victory. World record holder Vladimir Yashchenko became European champion . The silver medal went to Aljaksandr Hryhorjeu . Bronze went to Rolf Beilschmidt from the GDR.

Records

Existing records

World record	2.34 m	Vladimir Yashchenko	Tbilisi , Soviet Union (now Georgia )	June 16, 1978
European record
EM record	2.25 m	Jesper Tørring	EM Rome , Italy	4th September 1974

Record improvement

European champion Vladimir Jaschtschenko improved the existing EM record in the final on September 2nd by five centimeters to 2.30 m.  

qualification

Ruud Wielart remained in the qualification without a valid attempt

September 1, 1978, 9:45 a.m.

26 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.18 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes so that at least twelve high jumpers were in the final. The next height below the qualification value - 2.15 m - was skipped by ten athletes (highlighted in light green). So there was a final field of eighteen participants for the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Gennady Belkov	Soviet Union	2.18 SB
	Vladimir Yashchenko	Soviet Union	2.18
	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	2.18
	André Schneider	BR Germany	2.18
	Aljaksandr Hryhorjeu	Soviet Union	2.18
	Bruno Bruni	Italy	2.18 SB
	Rolf Beilschmidt	GDR	2.18
	Guy Moreau	Belgium	2.18 SB
9	Jindrich Vondra	Czechoslovakia	2.15 SB
	Mark Naylor	Great Britain	2.15 SB
	Eddy Annys	Belgium	2.15 SB
	Henry Lauterbach	GDR	2.15
	Almén rune	Sweden	2.15
	Terje Totland	Norway	2.15 SB
	Jacek Wszoła	Poland	2.15
	William Nachtegael	Belgium	2.15
	Josef Hrabal	Czechoslovakia	2.15
	Roman Moravec	Czechoslovakia	2.15 SB
19th	Paul Poaniewa	France	2.10 SB
	Ekrem Ozdamar	Turkey	2.10 SB
	Jacques Aletti	France	2.10 SB
	Vasilios Papadimitriou	Greece	2.10 SB
	Rodolfo Bergamo	Italy	2.10
24	Brian Burgess	Great Britain	2.00 PB
NM	Ruud Wielart	Netherlands	without height
	Massimo Di Giorgio	Italy

final

Rolf Beilschmidt won the bronze medal with his straddle style

September 2, 1978, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Vladimir Yashchenko	Soviet Union	2.30 CR
2	Aljaksandr Hryhorjeu	Soviet Union	2.28 SB
3	Rolf Beilschmidt	GDR	2.28 SB
4th	Henry Lauterbach	GDR	2.26
5	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	2.21 SB
6th	Jacek Wszoła	Poland	2.21 SB
7th	André Schneider	BR Germany	2.21 SB
8th	Josef Hrabal	Czechoslovakia	2.18 SB
9	Guy Moreau	Belgium	2.18 SBe
10	Almén rune	Sweden	2.18 SB
11	William Nachtegael	Belgium	2.18 SB
12	Jindrich Vondra	Czechoslovakia	2.15 SBe
13	Bruno Bruni	Italy	2.15
14th	Gennady Belkov	Soviet Union	2.15
	Terje Totland	Norway	2.15 SBe
16	Eddy Annys	Belgium	2.10
17th	Roman Moravec	Czechoslovakia	2.10
18th	Mark Naylor	Great Britain	2.10

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  Henry Lauterbach (here as a long jumper) came fourth

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  The 1976 Olympic champion and fifth European championship in 1974 Jacek Wszola (here in 2010) finished sixth - in 1980 he was second in the Olympic Games

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 at european-athletics.org, accessed August 1, 2019
• 1978 European Championship Prague, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed August 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 1, 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 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 1, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed August 1, 2019.