1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

None Men's marathon European Athletics Championships The men's marathon at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 3 September 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 Leonid Moseyev URS 1955Silver Nikolay Penzin URS 1955Bronze Karel Lismont BEL Results Final 3 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Leonid Moseyev URS 1955 2:11:57.5 CR Nikolay Penzin URS 1955 2:11:59.0 Karel Lismont BEL 2:12:07.7 4 Waldemar Cierpinski GDR 2:12:20.0 5 Cătălin Andreica ROU 1965 2:12:29.4 NR 6 Massimo Magnani ITA 2:12:45.3 7 Hans-Joachim Truppel GDR 2:12:54.3 8 Jürgen Eberding GDR 2:13:39.7 9 David Cannon GBR 2:14:31.7 10 Mihaíl Koúsis GRE 2:14:41.3 11 Satymkul Dzhumanazarov URS 1955 2:14:43.3 12 Göran Bengtsson SWE 2:15:01.9 13 Tony Simmons GBR 2:15:31.5 14 Ferenc Szekeres HUN 1957 2:15:45.0 15 Ryszard Marczak POL 2:15:47.8 16 Michelangelo Arena ITA 2:16:09.2 17 Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer TCH 2:16:37.6 18 Henri Schoofs BEL 2:16:49.5 19 Josef Jánský TCH 2:16:53.0 20 Reinhard Leibold FRG 2:16:56.3 21 Jean-Marie Ancion BEL 2:17:24.5 22 Ko van den Weyden NED 2:17:32.8 23 Bernard Bobes FRA 2:17:48.0 24 Aarno Ristimäki FIN 2:18:17.8 25 Colin Taylor GBR 2:18:44.5 26 Antonio Romero ESP 1977 2:19:26.4 27 Patrick Hooper IRL 2:20:28.5 28 Manuel Paiva POR 2:20:49.4 29 Richard Hooper IRL 2:21:00.2 30 Cor Vriend NED 2:21:25.2 31 Henry Olsen NOR 2:21:35.1 32 Sadık Salman TUR 2:22:47.4 33 Jørn Lauenborg DEN 2:23:14.8 34 Roelof Veld NED 2:23:38.3 35 András Fancsali HUN 1957 2:23:39.7 36 Veli Ballı TUR 2:25:56.2 37 Kyriakos Lazaridis GRE 2:32:16.9 38 Paolo Accaputo ITA DNF 39 Jörgen Hein DEN DNF 40 Lars Enqvist SWE DNF 41 Jan Fjærestad NOR DNF 42 Bjarne Brøndum DEN DNF 43 Miroslav Krsek TCH DNF 44 Ryszard Kopijasz POL DNF 45 Håkan Spik FIN DNF 46 Aniceto Simões POR DNF 47 Fernand Kolbeck FRA DNF 48 Øyvind Dahl NOR DNF 49 Jochen Schirmer FRG DNF Participation According to an unofficial count, 49 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event. 22em BEL (3) TCH (3) DEN (3) GDR (3) FIN (2) FRA (2) GRE (2) HUN 1957 (2) IRL (2) ITA (3) NED (3) NOR (3) POL (2) POR (2) ROU 1965 (1) URS 1955 (3) ESP 1977 (1) SWE (2) TUR (2) GBR (3) FRG (2) References Category:Marathons at the European Athletics Championships Euro Category:Men's marathons Category:Marathons in the Czech Republic Category:Men's events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships