1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's shot put

None Women's shot put European Athletics Championships The women's shot put at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 30 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 Ilona Slupianek GDRSilver Helena Fibingerová TCHBronze Margitta Droese GDR Results Final 30 August Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Ilona Slupianek GDR 21.41 CR Helena Fibingerová TCH 20.86 Margitta Droese GDR 20.58 4 Svetlana Krachevskaya URS 1955 20.13 5 Eva Wilms FRG 19.20 6 Ivanka Petrova BUL 1971 18.85 7 Svetlana Melnikova URS 1955 18.63 8 Mihaela Loghin ROU 1965 17.35 9 Zdeňka Šilhavá TCH 17.23 10 Beatrix Philipp FRG 17.13 11 Nina Isayeva URS 1955 NM 12 Elena Stoyanova BUL 1971 DQ Doping† †Elena Stoyanova ranked initially 5th (19.43m), but was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules. Holt John B. April 26–28, 1979 International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) - Main Decisions of the IAAF Council, Meeting in Dakar (SEN), April 26th, 27th and 28th 1979 http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1979/ore140/ore140o.pdf IAAF 353–354 September 13, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20180725171426/http://library.la84.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1979/ore140/ore140o.pdf July 25, 2018 dead Participation According to an unofficial count, 12 athletes from 6 countries participated in the event. 22em BUL 1971 (2) TCH (2) GDR (2) ROU 1965 (1) URS 1955 (3) FRG (2) References Category:Shot put at the European Athletics Championships Category:Women's events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships