The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 2 and 3 September 1978.[1]
Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships |
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Medalists
editResults
editFinal
edit3 September
Heats
edit2 September
Heat 1
editRank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Poland | Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin |
39.20 | Q |
2 | Italy | Giovanni Grazioli Luciano Caravani Stefano Curini Pietro Mennea |
39.51 | Q |
3 | Switzerland | Franco Fähndrich Urs Gisler Peter Muster Hansjörg Ziegler |
39.87 | Q |
4 | Great Britain | Trevor Hoyte Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Steve Green |
40.08 | Q |
5 | Czechoslovakia | Jan Cheben Otakar Wild Marián Králik Luděk Bohman |
40.43 |
Heat 2
editRank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | East Germany | Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme |
39.05 | Q |
2 | Soviet Union | Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko |
39.21 | Q |
3 | France | Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Lucien Sainte-Rose Hermann Panzo |
39.45 | Q |
4 | Belgium | Ronald Desruelles Danny Roelandt Hans van den Daele Lambert Micha |
40.16 | Q |
Bulgaria | Ivaylo Karanyotov Vladimir Ivanov Veselin Panov Petar Petrov |
DNF |
Participation
editAccording to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.
- Belgium (4)
- Bulgaria (4)
- Czechoslovakia (4)
- East Germany (4)
- France (4)
- Italy (4)
- Poland (4)
- Switzerland (4)
- Soviet Union (4)
- Great Britain (4)
References
edit- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014