European Athletics Championships 1978 / Women's Shot Put

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	12 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	August 30th
Medalists
gold	Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )
silver	Helena Fibingerová ( TCH )
bronze	Margitta Droese ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The shot put women at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 30 August 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

With gold and bronze, the shot put from the GDR won two medals in this competition. European champion was Ilona Slupianek . Second place went to the Czechoslovak Olympic bronze medalist from 1976 , European Championship third from 1974 and world record holder Helena Fibingerová . Bronze went to Margitta Droese , who won the silver medal in the discus the next day .

Records

Existing records

World record	22.32 m	Helena Fibingerová	Nitra , Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia )	20th August 1977
European record
EM record	20.78 m	Nadezhda Tschischowa	EM in Rome , Italy	2nd September 1974

Record improvement

European champion Ilona Slupianek improved the existing championship record on August 30th by 63 centimeters to 21.41 m.  

doping

There was a doping case in this competition. The Bulgarian athlete Elena Stoyanova, who originally finished fifth, was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations and suspended for eighteen months. The athletes who were initially placed behind her in the final moved up one rank each. Mihaela Loghin, originally placed ninth, was denied three attempts due to Stojanowa's doping fraud, because Loghin was not placed among the top eight athletes after the pre-match and was therefore not approved for the final match with three more hits.

execution

With only twelve participants, there was no qualification, all athletes entered the final together.

final

August 30, 1978, 5:00 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	Ilona Slupianek	GDR	x	19.98	20.87	20.23	20.44	21.41	21.41 CR
2	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	19.89	20.86	x	x	x	19.64	20.86
3	Margitta Droese	GDR	18.06	19.59	20.28	20.58	20.48	20.31	20.58
4th	Svetlana Krachevskaya	Soviet Union	19.81	19.41	19.80	19.89	19.85	20.13	20.13 SB
5	Eva Wilms	BR Germany	Trial series of the athletes not known						19.20 SB
6th	Ivanka Petrova	Bulgaria							18.85 SB
7th	Svetlana Melnikova	Soviet Union							18.63 SB
8th	Mihaela Loghin	Romania							17.35 SB
9	Zdeňka Bartoňová	Czechoslovakia							17.23 SB
10	Beatrix Philipp	BR Germany							17.13
NM	Nina Isayeva	Soviet Union	x	x	x	not in the final of the top eight			without space
DOP	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria

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  After a positive doping test in 1977, Ilona Slupianek became European champion - her Olympic victory in 1980 , her European title defense in 1982 and her two world records later achieved must clearly be seen against the background of the GDR doping practice known today

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  The Olympic bronze medalist from 1976 , EM -Third of 1974 and world record holder of Helena Fibingerová (here in 2012) was in the course of their successful career their greatest success - won silver WM -Titel 1983

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  Mihaela Loghin finished eighth after she was brought down three attempts by doping sinner Elena Stoyanova - in 1984 she was second in the Olympic Games

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 12, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed August 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 434 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on August 12, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed August 12, 2019
2. ↑ List of doping cases in athletics at research.omicsgroup.org, accessed on August 26, 2019
3. ↑ Doping - not an issue for the Briesenick family on taz.de, accessed on August 12, 2019
4. ↑ Doping, BRD / GDR - Past on cycling4fans.de, accessed on August 12, 2019
5. ↑ The GDR already stuffed the little ones of the sport with pills - this has fatal consequences on focus.de, Focus Magazin, No. 11/1994, March 14, 1994, accessed on August 12, 2019