1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

None Men's 100 metres 1978 European Athletics Championships Stadion Evžena Rošického Prague 29 August (heats) 30 August (semifinals & final) 28 15 10.27 Pietro Mennea Eugen Ray Vladimir Ignatenko 1955 ITA GDR URS 1974 1982 The men's 100 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29 and 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 Participation According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event. 20em AUT (1) BEL (2) BUL 1971 (3) TCH (3) GDR (2) FRA (2) GBR (1) GRE (1) ISL (1) ITA (3) POL (2) URS 1955 (3) SWE (2) SUI (1) SFR Yugoslavia (1) Results Heats 29 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Allan Wells GBR 10.40 Q 2 Valeriy Borzov URS 1955 10.50 Q 3 Joseph Arame FRA 10.59 Q 4 Lambert Micha BEL 10.63 Q 5 Franco Fähndrich SUI 10.64 6 Ladislav Latocha TCH 10.73 7 Ivaylo Karanyotov BUL 1971 10.78 Wind: 0.0 m/s Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Pietro Mennea ITA 10.19 CR European Athletics Championships, Q 2 Leszek Dunecki POL 10.31 Q 3 Vladimir Ignatenko URS 1955 10.38 Q 4 Dragan Zarić SFR Yugoslavia 10.59 Q 5 Ronald Desruelles BEL 10.60 6 Stefan Nilsson SWE 10.62 7 Otakar Wild TCH 10.73 Wind: 0.0 m/s Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Eugen Ray GDR 10.30 Q 2 Marian Woronin POL 10.50 Q 3 Stefano Curini ITA 10.58 Q 4 Kenth Rönn SWE 10.58 Q 5 Pierrick Thessard FRA 10.79 6 Gernot Massing AUT 10.86 7 Veselin Panov BUL 1971 10.90 Wind: 0.0 m/s Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Petar Petrov BUL 1971 10.44 Q 2 Nikolay Kolesnikov URS 1955 10.49 Q 3 Lambros Kefalas GRE 10.53 Q 4 Giovanni Grazioli ITA 10.55 Q 5 Alexander Thieme GDR 10.55 6 Zdeněk Mazur TCH 10.73 7 Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson ISL 10.76 Wind: 0.0 m/s Semi-finals 30 August Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Pietro Mennea ITA 10.26 Q 2 Vladimir Ignatenko URS 1955 10.45 Q 3 Petar Petrov BUL 1971 10.46 Q 4 Valeriy Borzov URS 1955 10.53 Q 5 Marian Woronin POL 10.54 6 Kenth Rönn SWE 10.63 7 Stefano Curini ITA 10.72 8 Lambert Micha BEL 10.74 Wind: 0.0 m/s Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Eugen Ray GDR 10.30 Q 2 Leszek Dunecki POL 10.38 Q 3 Allan Wells GBR 10.38 Q 4 Nikolay Kolesnikov URS 1955 10.43 Q 5 Giovanni Grazioli ITA 10.58 6 Lambros Kefalas GRE 10.60 7 Joseph Arame FRA 10.64 8 Dragan Zarić SFR Yugoslavia 10.69 Wind: -0.8 m/s Final 30 August Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 7 Pietro Mennea ITA 10.27 6 Eugen Ray GDR 10.36 1 Vladimir Ignatenko URS 1955 10.37 4 4 Petar Petrov BUL 1971 10.41 5 8 Leszek Dunecki POL 10.43 6 3 Allan Wells GBR 10.45 7 2 Nikolay Kolesnikov URS 1955 10.46 8 5 Valeriy Borzov URS 1955 10.55 Wind: 0.0 m/s References Category:100 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships