1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

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 women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 2 and 3 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Vera Anisimova Lyudmila Maslakova Lyudmila Kondratyeva Lyudmila Storozhkova Soviet Union
Silver	Bev Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman United Kingdom
Bronze	Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr East Germany

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time
01 !	Soviet Union	Vera Anisimova Lyudmila Maslakova Lyudmila Kondratyeva Lyudmila Storozhkova	42.54
02 !	United Kingdom	Bev Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman	42.72
03 !	East Germany	Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr	43.07
4	Bulgaria	Sofka Popova Lilyana Ivanova Zdravka Shipokliyeva Ivanka Valkova	43.47
5	Poland	Grażyna Rabsztyn Zofia Bielczyk Jolanta Stalmach Irena Szewińska	43.83
6	West Germany	Elvira Possekel Dagmar Schenten Claudia Steger Petra Sharp	44.34
7	Sweden	Linda Haglund Helena Pihl Jeanette Rangeby Lena Möller	44.37
8	France	Véronique Rosset Annie Alizé Chantal Réga Raymonde Naigre	DNF

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	East Germany	Johanna Klier Monika Hamann Carla Bodendorf Marlies Göhr	43.05	Q
2	France	Véronique Rosset Annie Alizé Chantal Réga Raymonde Naigre	43.78	Q
3	Bulgaria	Sofka Popova Lilyana Ivanova Zdravka Shipokliyeva Ivanka Valkova	43.97	Q
4	Poland	Grażyna Rabsztyn Zofia Bielczyk Jolanta Stalmach Irena Szewińska	44.20	Q
5	Italy	Andriana Cari Paola Bolognesi Marisa Masullo Laura Miano	44.95

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Soviet Union	Vera Anisimova Lyudmila Maslakova Lyudmila Kondratyeva Lyudmila Storozhkova	43.35	Q
2	United Kingdom	Bev Goddard Kathy Smallwood Sharon Colyear Sonia Lannaman	43.90	Q
3	Sweden	Linda Haglund Helena Pihl Jeanette Rangeby Lena Möller	44.31	Q
4	West Germany	Elvira Possekel Dagmar Schenten Claudia Steger Petra Sharp	44.58	Q
5	Czechoslovakia	Daniela Drinková Dana Široká Zdena Holánová Ludmila Jimramovská	45.03

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

France (4)
Italy (4)
Poland (4)

Soviet Union (4)
Sweden (4)

United Kingdom (4)
West Germany (4)

References

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

4 × 100 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships

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