European Athletics Championships 1978 / men's javelin

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 30th (final)
Medalist
gold	Michael Wessing ( FRG )
silver	Nikolai Grebnew ( URS )
bronze	Wolfgang Hanisch ( GDR )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The javelin men in the 1978 European Athletics Championships on 29 and 30 August 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

The German thrower Michael Wessing became European champion . He won ahead of Nikolai Grebnew from the USSR. Bronze went to the vice European champion from 1974 and EM third from 1971 Wolfgang Hanisch , GDR.

Existing records

World record	94.58 m	Miklós Németh	Montreal OS , Canada	July 25, 1976
European record
Championship record	91.52 m	Jānis Lūsis	EM Athens , Greece	19th September 1969

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1969, was neither set nor improved at these European championships.

doping

There was a doping case in this competition. The Soviet pitcher Wassili Jerschow , who originally came in fifth, was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations and suspended for eighteen months. The athletes who were initially placed behind him in the final moved up one rank each.

qualification

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 80.00 m. Thirteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and competed in the final on the following day. Another thrower who had achieved a distance of more than eighty meters also took part in the final, but was subsequently disqualified for doping abuse.

Group A

August 29, 1978, 6:42 pm

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Antero puranes	Finland	84.42	-	-	84.42 SB
2	Miklós Németh	Hungary	83.48	-	-	83.48
3	Pentti Sinersaari	Finland	82.46	-	-	82.46 SB
4th	Michael Wessing	BR Germany	81.84	-	-	81.84
5	Detlef Michel	GDR	80.48	-	-	80.48
6th	Piotr Bielczyk	Poland	77.32	80.06	-	80.06
7th	Kenth Eldebrink	Sweden	74.82	78.60	76.24	78.60 SB
8th	Bjorn Grimnes	Norway	78.58	74.26	75.32	78.58
9	Peter Yates	Great Britain	70.82	75.82	74.50	75.82 SB
10	Tomáš Babiak	Czechoslovakia	x	75.20	x	75.20 SB
11	Vincenzo Marchetti	Italy	x	71.80	68.54	71.80 SB
DNS	Angel Grigorov	Bulgaria
DOP	Vasily Yershov	Soviet Union				admitted to the finals

Group B

August 29, 1978, 7:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Ferenc Paragi	Hungary	78.70	75.76	86.04	86.04 SB
2	Nikolai Grebnew	Soviet Union	85.18	-	-	85.18
3	Helmut Schreiber	BR Germany	85.16	-	-	85.16 SB
4th	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	84.50	-	-	84.50
5	Sándor Boros	Hungary	x	74.20	83.22	83.22
6th	Seppo Hovinen	Finland	80.94	-	-	80.94 SB
7th	Terje Thorslund	Norway	80.22	-	-	80.22
8th	Josef Hanák	Czechoslovakia	78.56	x	x	78.56 SB
9	Raimo Pihl	Sweden	76.14	76.48	78.42	78.42
10	Per-Eric Smiding	Sweden	73.54	76.28	76.36	76.36
11	Tudorel Pirvu	Romania	75.14	73.38	x	75.14 SB
DNS	Stefan Stoikow	Bulgaria

final

August 30, 1978, 7:00 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	Michael Wessing	BR Germany	82.94	x	72.08	89.12	85.74	83.66	89.12
2	Nikolai Grebnew	Soviet Union	82.80	80.02	83.26	87.82	78.34	79.42	87.82
3	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	83.58	x	87.66	82.84	80.90	86.92	87.66
4th	Detlef Michel	GDR	85.46	73.74	79.86	78.10	x	81.36	85.46 SB
5	Helmut Schreiber	BR Germany	76.66	71.84	82.84	77.88	82.48	83.58	83.58
6th	Miklós Németh	Hungary	81.16	x	x	83.58	x	x	83.58 SB
7th	Piotr Bielczyk	Poland	71.80	x	81.80	77.22	x	x	81.80 SB
8th	Terje Thorslund	Norway	80.20	80.42	78.42	not in the final of the initially best eight throwers - after Jerschow's later doping-related disqualification, only the best seven participants were counted in the final fight			80.42 SB
9	Ferenc Paragi	Hungary	79.08	x	76.20				79.08
10	Sándor Boros	Hungary	74.70	78.78	x				78.78
11	Pentti Sinersaari	Finland	x	77.10	71.12				77.10
12	Seppo Hovinen	Finland	x	71.48	73.08				73.08
13	Antero puranes	Finland	68.64	70.48	72.74				72.74
DOP	Vasily Yershov	Soviet Union

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  Wolfgang Hanisch, third in the European Championship in 1971 and Vice European Champion in 1974 , won the bronze medal - in 1976 he was third in the Olympic Games

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  Detlef Michel came fourth - at the European Championships he was third in 1982 and fourth in 1986 , and in 1983 he became world champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 at european-athletics.org, accessed August 6, 2019
• 1978 European Championship Prague, Men Javelin 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 Javelin 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, javelin 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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved August 6, 2019