1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 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 400 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	Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch East Germany
Silver	Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providokhina Mariya Kulchunova Soviet Union
Bronze	Małgorzata Gajewska Krystyna Kacperczyk Genowefa Błaszak Irena Szewińska Poland

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
01 !	East Germany	Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch	3:21.20	CR
02 !	Soviet Union	Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providokhina Mariya Kulchunova	3:22.53
03 !	Poland	Małgorzata Gajewska Krystyna Kacperczyk Genowefa Błaszak Irena Szewińska	3:26.76
4	United Kingdom	Karen Williams Joslyn Hoyte Verona Elder Donna Murray	3:27.17
5	West Germany	Elke Decker Elke Barth Gaby Bussmann Silvia Hollmann	3:27.96
6	Czechoslovakia	Jarmila Kratochvílová Jindřiška Kubečková Eva Ráková Jozefína Čerchlanová	3:30.4
7	Romania	Maria Samungi Doina Badescu Mariana Suman Eleonora Tarita	3:30.7
8	Hungary	Eva Mohacsi Rozalia Halmosi Irén Orosz Ilona Pál	3:32.2

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Soviet Union	Tatyana Prorochenko Nadezhda Mushta Tatyana Providokhina Mariya Kulchunova	3:24.2	CR Q
2	United Kingdom	Karen Williams Joslyn Hoyte Verona Elder Donna Murray	3:29.0	Q
3	Hungary	Eva Mohacsi Rozalia Halmosi Irén Orosz Ilona Pál	3:30.7	Q
4	Czechoslovakia	Eva Ráková Jindřiška Kubečková Jozefína Čerchlanová Jarmila Kratochvílová	3:31.2	Q
5	France	Catherine Delachanal Martine Jacquemin Danièle Lairloup Patricia Darbonville	3:33.8
6	Netherlands	Tilly Verhoef Truus van Amstel Coby Körmeling Wilma Hillen	3:34.7

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	East Germany	Christiane Marquardt Barbara Krug Christina Brehmer Marita Koch	3:27.7	Q
2	West Germany	Elke Decker Elke Barth Gaby Bussmann Silvia Hollmann	3:30.9	Q
3	Poland	Małgorzata Gajewska Genowefa Błaszak Krystyna Kacperczyk Irena Szewińska	3:31.2	Q
4	Romania	Maria Samungi Doina Badescu Mariana Suman Eleonora Tarita	3:31.8	Q
5	Finland	Yvonne Hannus Barbro Lindström Mona-Lisa Pursiainen Pirjo Häggman	3:32.2
6	Belgium	Anne Michel Rosine Wallez Anne-Marie Van Nuffel Lea Alaerts	3:33.4

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

Finland (4)
France (4)
Hungary (4)

Netherlands (4)
Poland (4)
Romania (4)

References

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

4 × 400 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships

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Women	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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