1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

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 100 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29 and 30 August 1978.[1]

Medalists

Gold Pietro Mennea
 Italy
Silver Eugen Ray
 East Germany
Bronze Vladimir Ignatenko
 Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 August Wind: 0.0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Pietro Mennea  Italy 10.27
2nd Eugen Ray  East Germany 10.36
3rd Vladimir Ignatenko  Soviet Union 10.37
4 Petar Petrov  Bulgaria 10.41
5 Leszek Dunecki  Poland 10.43
6 Allan Wells  United Kingdom 10.45
7 Nikolay Kolesnikov  Soviet Union 10.46
8 Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 10.55

Semi-finals

30 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 10.26 Q
2 Vladimir Ignatenko  Soviet Union 10.45 Q
3 Petar Petrov  Bulgaria 10.46 Q
4 Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 10.53 Q
5 Marian Woronin  Poland 10.54
6 Kenth Rönn  Sweden 10.63
7 Stefano Curini  Italy 10.72
8 Lambert Micha  Belgium 10.74

Semi-final 2

Wind: -0.8m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Eugen Ray  East Germany 10.30 Q
2 Leszek Dunecki  Poland 10.38 Q
3 Allan Wells  United Kingdom 10.38 Q
4 Nikolay Kolesnikov  Soviet Union 10.43 Q
5 Giovanni Grazioli  Italy 10.58
6 Lambros Kefalas  Greece 10.60
7 Joseph Arame  France 10.64
8 Dragan Zarić  Yugoslavia 10.69

Heats

29 August

Heat 1

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Allan Wells  United Kingdom 10.40 Q
2 Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union 10.50 Q
3 Joseph Arame  France 10.59 Q
4 Lambert Micha  Belgium 10.63 Q
5 Franco Fähndrich   Switzerland 10.64
6 Ladislav Latocha  Czechoslovakia 10.73
7 Ivaylo Karanyotov  Bulgaria 10.78

Heat 2

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 10.19 CR Q
2 Leszek Dunecki  Poland 10.31 Q
3 Vladimir Ignatenko  Soviet Union 10.38 Q
4 Dragan Zarić  Yugoslavia 10.59 Q
5 Ronald Desruelles  Belgium 10.60
6 Stefan Nilsson  Sweden 10.62
7 Otakar Wild  Czechoslovakia 10.73

Heat 3

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Eugen Ray  East Germany 10.30 Q
2 Marian Woronin  Poland 10.50 Q
3 Stefano Curini  Italy 10.58 Q
4 Kenth Rönn  Sweden 10.58 Q
5 Pierrick Thessard  France 10.79
6 Gernot Massing  Austria 10.86
7 Veselin Panov  Bulgaria 10.90

Heat 4

Wind: 0m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Petar Petrov  Bulgaria 10.44 Q
2 Nikolay Kolesnikov  Soviet Union 10.49 Q
3 Lambros Kefalas  Greece 10.53 Q
4 Giovanni Grazioli  Italy 10.55 Q
5 Alexander Thieme  East Germany 10.55
6 Zdeněk Mazur  Czechoslovakia 10.73
7 Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson  Iceland 10.76

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

References

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