1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

Events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's marathon at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, on 3 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Leonid Moseyev Soviet Union
Silver	Nikolay Penzin Soviet Union
Bronze	Karel Lismont Belgium

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Leonid Moseyev	Soviet Union	2:11:57.5	CR
02 !	Nikolay Penzin	Soviet Union	2:11:59.0
03 !	Karel Lismont	Belgium	2:12:07.7
4	Waldemar Cierpinski	East Germany	2:12:20.0
5	Cătălin Andreica	Romania	2:12:29.4	NR
6	Massimo Magnani	Italy	2:12:45.3
7	Hans-Joachim Truppel	East Germany	2:12:54.3
8	Jürgen Eberding	East Germany	2:13:39.7
9	Dave Cannon	United Kingdom	2:14:31.7
10	Mihaíl Koúsis	Greece	2:14:41.3
11	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov	Soviet Union	2:14:43.3
12	Göran Bengtsson	Sweden	2:15:01.9
13	Anthony Simmons	United Kingdom	2:15:31.5
14	Ferenc Szekeres	Hungary	2:15:45.0
15	Ryszard Marczak	Poland	2:15:47.8
16	Michelangelo Arena	Italy	2:16:09.2
17	Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer	Czechoslovakia	2:16:37.6
18	Henri Schoofs	Belgium	2:16:49.5
19	Josef Jánský	Czechoslovakia	2:16:53.0
20	Reinhard Leibold	West Germany	2:16:56.3
21	Jean-Marie Ancion	Belgium	2:17:24.5
22	Ko van den Weyden	Netherlands	2:17:32.8
23	Bernard Bobes	France	2:17:48.0
24	Aarno Ristimäki	Finland	2:18:17.8
25	Colin Taylor	United Kingdom	2:18:44.5
26	Antonio Romero	Spain	2:19:26.4
27	Patrick Hooper	Ireland	2:20:28.5
28	Manuel Paiva	Portugal	2:20:49.4
29	Richard Hooper	Ireland	2:21:00.2
30	Cor Vriend	Netherlands	2:21:25.2
31	Henry Olsen	Norway	2:21:35.1
32	Sadık Salman	Turkey	2:22:47.4
33	Jørn Lauenborg	Denmark	2:23:14.8
34	Roelof Veld	Netherlands	2:23:38.3
35	András Fancsali	Hungary	2:23:39.7
36	Veli Ballı	Turkey	2:25:56.2
37	Kyriakos Lazaridis	Greece	2:32:16.9
38	Paolo Accaputo	Italy	DNF
39	Jörgen Hein	Denmark	DNF
40	Lars Enqvist	Sweden	DNF
41	Jan Fjærestad	Norway	DNF
42	Bjarne Brøndum	Denmark	DNF
43	Miroslav Krsek	Czechoslovakia	DNF
44	Ryszard Kopijasz	Poland	DNF
45	Håkan Spik	Finland	DNF
46	Aniceto Simões	Portugal	DNF
47	Fernand Kolbeck	France	DNF
48	Øyvind Dahl	Norway	DNF
49	Jochen Schirmer	West Germany	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 49 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

Greece (2)
Hungary (2)
Ireland (2)
Italy (3)
Netherlands (3)

Norway (3)
Poland (2)
Portugal (2)
Romania (1)
Soviet Union (3)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014

Marathon at the European Athletics Championships

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Women's	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

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