1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon

None Men's decathlon European Athletics Championships The men's decathlon at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 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 Aleksandr Grebenyuk URS 1955Silver Daley Thompson GBRBronze Siegfried Stark GDR Results KEY:DNSDid not startDNFDid not finishCRChampionships recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best Final 30/31 August #F2F5A9 The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow solid 1px #AAAAAA Rank Name Nationality 100m LJ SP HJ 400m 110m H DT PV JT 1500m Points Notes Aleksandr Grebenyuk URS 1955 11.02 6.94 15.93 2.01 48.88 14.43 48.42 4.50 67.74 4:24.4 8337 (8340) CR Daley Thompson GBR 10.69 7.93 14.69 2.04 47.77 15.28 43.52 4.20 59.80 4:22.84 8257 (8289) Siegfried Stark GDR 11.17 7.30 15.04 1.95 49.57 15.12 44.52 4.90 69.00 4:24.0 8224 (8208) 4 Sepp Zeilbauer AUT 11.12 7.32 14.81 1.92 49.55 14.61 45.22 4.70 60.36 4:41.6 7969 (7988) 5 Yuriy Kutsenko URS 1955 11.02 7.24 14.82 1.98 49.23 15.34 43.76 4.40 57.74 4:22.9 7918 (7978) 6 Roger Kanerva FIN 11.18 7.22 13.32 2.01 49.62 15.28 41.82 4.80 61.60 4:25.4 7923 (7945) 7 Johannes Lahti FIN 10.86 7.08 14.06 2.07 49.64 15.00 41.36 4.00 67.98 4:36.7 7875 (7913) 8 Rainer Pottel GDR 11.05 7.40 15.05 1.92 48.04 14.89 32.80 4.90 56.24 4:29.5 7883 (7900) 9 Holger Schmidt FRG 10.96 7.16 15.74 1.95 49.66 14.84 48.12 4.10 59.82 5:01.1 7778 (7829) 10 Yves Le Roy FRA 11.27 7.17 14.38 1.89 49.65 15.11 47.96 4.70 56.32 4:46.6 7748 (7780) 11 Thierry Dubois FRA 10.99 7.23 13.78 1.95 49.58 14.97 42.82 4.00 66.80 4:54.4 7664 (7705) 12 Vladimir Buryakov URS 1955 11.45 7.12 14.01 1.95 50.20 15.11 40.58 4.70 57.86 4:37.7 7629 (7670) 13 Jürgen Hingsen FRG 11.39 7.39 13.94 1.98 50.22 15.33 39.72 4.10 58.66 4:28.47 7585 (7640) 14 Dietmar Schauerhammer GDR 10.81 7.21 14.91 1.86 47.59 15.02 41.96 4.00 51.70 4:52.0 7548 (7635) 15 Atanas Andonov BUL 1971 11.15 6.94 13.54 1.92 51.00 14.77 41.50 4.40 58.34 4:39.4 7527 (7590) 16 Jaromír Frič TCH 11.39 7.08 13.58 1.92 50.76 15.40 45.32 4.80 52.96 4:55.0 7469 (7516) 17 Armin Tschenett SUI 10.98 7.01 13.15 1.92 48.74 15.47 34.30 4.10 49.14 4:30.8 7266 (7362) 18 Christer Lythell SWE 11.39 7.17 13.55 1.83 50.12 15.43 45.42 4.00 53.08 4:41.7 7287 (7362) 19 Elias Sveinsson ISL 11.24 6.17 14.17 1.95 51.50 15.48 43.64 4.20 57.14 4:44.8 7225 (7317) 20 Luděk Pernica TCH 11.55 6.72 13.43 1.89 51.41 15.18 42.46 4.30 48.90 4:29.64 7203 (7290) 21 Árpád Kiss HUN 1957 11.34 6.83 14.45 1.95 51.02 15.05 42.20 3.80 50.70 5:02.0 7103 (7202) 22 Kenneth Riggsberger SWE 11.39 6.62 13.46 1.80 50.15 16.08 39.60 4.20 50.88 4:41.5 6957 (7063) 23 Georg Werthner AUT 11.39 7.11 13.46 1.92 50.49 15.48 35.92 4.20 68.70 DNF 24 Guido Kratschmer FRG DNF DNF Participation According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event. 22em AUT (2) BUL 1971 (1) TCH (2) GDR (3) FIN (2) FRA (2) HUN 1957 (1) ISL (1) URS 1955 (3) SWE (2) SUI (1) GBR (1) FRG (3) References Category:Combined events at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships