European Athletics Championships 1978 / Women's long jump

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	22 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 30th (final)
Medalists
gold	Vilma Bardauskienė ( URS )
silver	Angela Voigt ( GDR )
bronze	Jarmila Nygrýnová ( TCH )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

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

The European champion was the Soviet long jumper Vilma Bardauskienė , who improved her own world record by two centimeters in qualifying with 7.09 m. She won ahead of the 1976 Olympic champion Angela Voigt from the GDR, who as Angela Schmalfeld was fourth in the 1974 European Championship . Bronze went to the Czechoslovak Jarmila Nygrýnová .

Records

Existing records

World record	7.07 m	Vilma Bardauskienė	Kishinew (now Chișinău ), Soviet Union (now Republic of Moldova )	August 18, 1978
European record
EM record	6.76 m	Ingrid Mickler-Becker	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Vilma Bardauskienė improved the existing championship record in qualifying on August 29, 1978 by 33 centimeters to 7.09 m. In doing so, she also improved her own world record by two centimeters.  

qualification

August 29, 1978

22 participants took part in the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.40 m. Since only ten athletes equalized or exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next two best-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.31 m was enough for the final.

6.12 m was not enough for Sylvia Barlag to take part in the finals, in the pentathlon she finished twelve three days later

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vilma Bardauskienė	Soviet Union	7.09 WR
2	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	6.65 SB
3	Gina Panait	Romania	6.61 PB
4th	Jacqueline Curtet	France	6.54 PB
5	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.48
6th	Sue Reeve	Great Britain	6.47
7th	Karin Hänel	BR Germany	6.46
8th	Angela Voigt	GDR	6.44
9	Heidemarie Wycisk	GDR	6.40
10	Lidia Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.40 SB
11	Maroula Lambrou	Greece	6.31 SB
12	Doina Anton	Romania	6.31 PB
13	Lidija Alfeyeva	Soviet Union	6.29 SB
14th	Margit Papp	Hungary	6.28 SB
15th	Teresa Marciniak	Poland	6.26 PB
16	Susan Hearnshaw	Great Britain	6.26 SB
17th	Sandra Vlad	Romania	6.19 PB
18th	Isabella Keller	Switzerland	6.15 PB
19th	Sylvia Barlag	Netherlands	6.12 PB
20th	Anke Weigt	BR Germany	6.08 PB
21st	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	5.85
NM	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	without space

final

The 1976 Olympic champion Angela Voigt, who as Angela Schmalfeld was fourth in the 1974 European Championship , won the silver medal

August 30, 1978

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vilma Bardauskienė	Soviet Union	6.88
2	Angela Voigt	GDR	6.79 SB
3	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.69 SB
4th	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	6.60
5	Gina Panait	Romania	6.52
6th	Sue Reeve	Great Britain	6.48 PB
7th	Karin Hänel	BR Germany	6.48
8th	Heidemarie Wycisk	GDR	6.44 PB
9	Jacqueline Curtet	France	6.24
10	Doina Anton	Romania	6.22
11	Lidia Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.20
12	Maroula Lambrou	Greece	6.12

Third-placed Jarmila Nygrýnová came to the following series of tests in the final:
6.60 m - 6.69 m - x - 6.51 m - 6.39 m - 6.61 m

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  Brigitte Wujak, formerly Brigitte Künzel, reached fourth place - in 1980 she won the Olympic silver medal

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  Heidemarie Wycisk came in eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 12, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women Long Jump 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 Long Jump 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, long jump women 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. Long jump women , accessed August 12, 2019