1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

None Women's 800 metres European Athletics Championships 1974 1982 The women's 800 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29, 30, and 31 August 1978. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 427–435 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold Tatyana Providokhina URS 1955Silver Nadezhda Mushta URS 1955Bronze Zoya Rigel URS 1955 Results Final 31 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Tatyana Providokhina URS 1955 1:55.80 CR Nadezhda Mushta URS 1955 1:55.82 Zoya Rigel URS 1955 1:56.57 4 Totka Petrova BUL 1971 1:56.59 5 Hildegard Ullrich GDR 1:57.45 AJR 6 Anita Weiß GDR 1:57.71 7 Ulrike Bruns GDR 1:58.62 8 Fiţa Lovin ROU 1965 1:58.82 Semi-finals 30 August Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Anita Weiß GDR 1:58.8 Q 2 Nadezhda Mushta URS 1955 1:58.8 Q 3 Fiţa Lovin ROU 1965 1:58.8 Q 4 Zoya Rigel URS 1955 1:58.9 Q 5 Gabriella Dorio ITA 2:00.5 6 Elena Tarita ROU 1965 2:01.7 7 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel BEL 2:06.2 8 Irén Lipcsei HUN 1957 2:06.8 Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tatyana Providokhina URS 1955 2:00.06 Q 2 Totka Petrova BUL 1971 2:00.2 Q 3 Ulrike Bruns GDR 2:00.3 Q 4 Hildegard Ullrich GDR 2:00.6 Q 5 Mariana Suman ROU 1965 2:01.62 6 Liz Barnes GBR 2:01.69 7 Jane Colebrook GBR 2:02.9 8 Jozefína Čerchlanová TCH 2:07.0 Heats 29 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tatyana Providokhina URS 1955 1:59.96 Q 2 Fiţa Lovin ROU 1965 2:00.0 Q 3 Ulrike Bruns GDR 2:00.38 Q 4 Gabriella Dorio ITA 2:00.4 Q 5 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel BEL 2:01.3 Q 6 Jane Colebrook GBR 2:03.0 q 7 Maria Ritter LIE 2:09.0 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Hildegard Ullrich GDR 2:01.39 Q 2 Zoya Rigel URS 1955 2:01.6 Q 3 Totka Petrova BUL 1971 2:01.8 Q 4 Irén Lipcsei HUN 1957 2:02.3 Q 5 Elena Tarita ROU 1965 2:02.9 Q 6 Janet Prictoe GBR 2:03.7 7 Elly van Hulst NED 2:03.9 8 Jindřiška Kubečková TCH 2:04.0 Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Nadezhda Mushta URS 1955 2:01.67 Q 2 Anita Weiß GDR 2:01.8 Q 3 Jozefína Čerchlanová TCH 2:02.0 Q 4 Liz Barnes GBR 2:02.1 Q 5 Mariana Suman ROU 1965 2:02.2 Q 6 Marie-Rose Verhoeven BEL 2:04.5 7 Fernande Schmitt LUX 2:04.7 Participation According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event. 22em BEL (2) BUL 1971 (1) TCH (2) GDR (3) HUN 1957 (1) ITA (1) LIE (1) LUX (1) NED (1) ROU 1965 (3) URS 1955 (3) GBR (3) References Category:800 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Women's events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships