1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 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 women's 800 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29, 30, and 31 August 1978.[1]

Medalists

Gold Tatyana Providokhina
 Soviet Union
Silver Nadezhda Mushta
 Soviet Union
Bronze Zoya Rigel
 Soviet Union

Results

Final

31 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union 1:55.80 CR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union 1:55.82
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union 1:56.57
4 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 1:56.59
5 Hildegard Ullrich  East Germany 1:57.45 AJR
6 Anita Weiß  East Germany 1:57.71
7 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 1:58.62
8 Fiţa Lovin  Romania 1:58.82

Semi-finals

30 August

Semi-final 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Anita Weiß  East Germany 1:58.8 Q
2 Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union 1:58.8 Q
3 Fiţa Lovin  Romania 1:58.8 Q
4 Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union 1:58.9 Q
5 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 2:00.5
6 Elena Tarita  Romania 2:01.7
7 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel  Belgium 2:06.2
8 Irén Lipcsei  Hungary 2:06.8

Semi-final 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union 2:00.06 Q
2 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 2:00.2 Q
3 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 2:00.3 Q
4 Hildegard Ullrich  East Germany 2:00.6 Q
5 Mariana Suman  Romania 2:01.62
6 Elizabeth Barnes  United Kingdom 2:01.69
7 Jane Colebrook  United Kingdom 2:02.9
8 Jozefína Čerchlanová  Czechoslovakia 2:07.0

Heats

29 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union 1:59.96 Q
2 Fiţa Lovin  Romania 2:00.0 Q
3 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 2:00.38 Q
4 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 2:00.4 Q
5 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel  Belgium 2:01.3 Q
6 Jane Colebrook  United Kingdom 2:03.0 q
7 Maria Ritter  Liechtenstein 2:09.0

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Hildegard Ullrich  East Germany 2:01.39 Q
2 Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union 2:01.6 Q
3 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 2:01.8 Q
4 Irén Lipcsei  Hungary 2:02.3 Q
5 Elena Tarita  Romania 2:02.9 Q
6 Janet Prictoe  United Kingdom 2:03.7
7 Elly van Hulst  Netherlands 2:03.9
8 Jindřiška Kubečková  Czechoslovakia 2:04.0

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union 2:01.67 Q
2 Anita Weiß  East Germany 2:01.8 Q
3 Jozefína Čerchlanová  Czechoslovakia 2:02.0 Q
4 Elizabeth Barnes  United Kingdom 2:02.1 Q
5 Mariana Suman  Romania 2:02.2 Q
6 Marie-Rose Verhoeven  Belgium 2:04.5
7 Fernande Schmitt  Luxembourg 2:04.7

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 12 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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