European Athletics Championships 1978 / Men's Shot Put
12th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Shot Put Men |
city |
Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic |
Stadion | Evžena Rošického Stadium |
Attendees | 19 athletes from 12 countries |
Competition phase | August 31 (qualifying) September 1 (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Udo Beyer ( GDR ) |
silver | Alexander Baryshnikov ( URS ) |
bronze | Wolfgang Schmidt ( GDR ) |
The shot put men at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 31 August and 1 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.
In this competition, the athletes from the GDR won two medals, gold and bronze. The 1976 Olympic champion and world record holder Udo Beyer became European champion . Alexander Baryshnikov from the Soviet Union won the silver medal in 1976, third in the Olympics . Third place went to Wolfgang Schmidt , who ran second in the 1976 Olympics in the discus throw , and two days later became European champion in his special discipline, the discus throw.
Records
Existing records
World record | 22.15 m | Udo Beyer | Gothenburg , Sweden | July 6, 1978 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 21.08 m | Hartmut Briesenick | EM Helsinki , Finland | August 13, 1971 |
Record setting
European champion Udo Beyer equalized the existing EM record of 21.08 m in the final on September 1st.
doping
There was a doping case in this competition. The Soviet shot putter Yevgeny Mironov , who originally took second place with 20.87 m, was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations. The athletes who were initially placed behind him in the final moved up one rank each.
The German runner-up European champion from 1974 Ralf Reichenbach was also affected by this doping fraud , whose participation in the final was prevented by the doped Jewgeny Mironov.
disqualification
Another athlete was disqualified for his unacceptable behavior. The British European Championship third from 1974 Geoff Capes had pushed a Czechoslovak official, in the further course there was a fight with this official. The British was then stripped of his result.
The disqualification of the British shot putter was decided only after the end of the competition. So the participation of the Swiss Jean-Pierre Egger in the final was prevented, who actually could have moved up.
Qualifying round
August 31, 1978
Nineteen participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 19.50 m. Since only nine athletes initially exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.26 m was enough for the final. However, with Ralf Reichenbach and Jean-Pierre Egger, two other athletes would have been eligible to participate in the final, for whom the competition was over after the qualification as sufferers of the later disqualifications for Geoff Capes and Yevgeny Mironov.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Reijo Ståhlberg | Finland | 20.25 |
2 | Udo Beyer | GDR | 20.03 |
3 | Anatoly Yarosh | Soviet Union | 19.80 |
4th | Jaromír Vlk | Czechoslovakia | 19.76 |
5 | Alexander Baryshnikov | Soviet Union | 19.74 |
6th | Wolfgang Schmidt | GDR | 19.72 |
7th | Hreinn Halldórsson | Iceland | 19.68 |
8th | Jaroslav Brabec | Czechoslovakia | 19.48 |
9 | Mathias Schmidt | GDR | 19.38 |
10 | Waltscho Stoew | Bulgaria | 19.26 |
11 | Ralf Reichenbach | BR Germany | 19.09 actually qualified for the final |
12 | Jean-Pierre Egger | Switzerland | 18.67 actually qualified for the final |
13 | Miroslav Janousek | Czechoslovakia | 18.61 |
14th | Arrhenius is different | Finland | 18.48 |
15th | Vladimir Milic | Yugoslavia | 18.35 |
16 | Marco Montelatici | Italy | 18.14 |
17th | Angelo Groppelli | Italy | 18.04 |
DSQ | Geoff Capes | Great Britain | admitted to the finals |
DOP | Yevgeny Mironov | Soviet Union | admitted to the finals |
final
September 1, 1978
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 | Udo Beyer | GDR | x | 21.08 | x | 20.21 | x | 20.18 | 21.08 CRe |
2 | Alexander Baryshnikov | Soviet Union | 19.73 | 20.68 | 10.16 | 20.00 | 19.84 | 20.48 | 20.68 SB |
3 | Wolfgang Schmidt | GDR | 19.86 | 19.63 | 19.92 | 19.62 | 20.30 | 19.49 | 20.30 |
4th | Reijo Ståhlberg | Finland | 19.61 | x | 19.36 | 20.17 | 19.99 | 20.08 | 20.17 |
5 | Anatoly Yarosh | Soviet Union | 20.03 SB | ||||||
6th | Jaromír Vlk | Czechoslovakia | 19.53 | ||||||
7th | Hreinn Halldórsson | Iceland | 19.34 | ||||||
8th | Jaroslav Brabec | Czechoslovakia | 19.27 | ||||||
9 | Waltscho Stoew | Bulgaria | 19.23 | ||||||
10 | Mathias Schmidt | GDR | 19.21 | ||||||
DSQ | Geoff Capes | Great Britain | |||||||
DOP | Yevgeny Mironov | Soviet Union |
Bronze medalist Wolfgang Schmidt was particularly successful as a discus thrower, so two days later he became European champion in his specialty discipline - as a result he had major problems with the political system of the GDR, but continued his career after German reunification with a few other successes
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 4, 2019
- European Championship 1978 Prague, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed August 4, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 4, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 430 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 4, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on August 4, 2019
- 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 4, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put, men , accessed August 4, 2019
- ↑ 7 Women Athletes Banned For Drugs , New York Times, October 26, 1979, Section Six, accessed August 4, 2019
- ↑ The Politic Of Drugs In The Olympic Movement, Editors: Wayne Wilson / Edward Derse , reading sample, ISBN 0-7360-0329-0 , English, accessed August 4, 2019
- ^ New Nation, September 2, 1978 , p. 16, accessed August 4, 2019
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist19780902/1978_09_02_djvu.txt , p. 16, English, accessed on August 4, 2019