1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

None Men's 200 metres 1978 European Athletics Championships Stadion Evžena Rošického Prague 31 August (heats & semi-finals) 1 September (final) 26 15 20.16 Pietro Mennea ITA Olaf Prenzler SUI Peter Muster GDR 1974 1982 The men's 200 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 31 August, and 1 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 The winning margin was 0.45 seconds. With the conclusion of the 2024 championships, this remains the greatest winning margin in the men's 200 metres at these championships, a feat which was equalled in 2012 by Churandy Martina of the Netherlands. Participation According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event. 15em BEL (2) BUL 1971 (2) TCH (3) GDR (2) FIN (1) FRA (3) GBR (2) ISL (1) ITA (1) LUX (2) POL (2) URS 1955 (2) ESP 1977 (1) SUI (1) SFR Yugoslavia (1) Results Heats 31 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Pietro Mennea ITA 20.70 Q 2 Leszek Dunecki POL 21.01 Q 3 Dragan Zarić SFR Yugoslavia 21.13 Q 4 David Jenkins GBR 21.16 Q 5 Roland Bombardella LUX 21.17 6 Lambert Micha BEL 21.36 Wind: +0.5 m/s Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Aleksandr Aksinin URS 1955 20.97 Q 2 Joseph Arame FRA 21.32 Q 3 Antti Rajamäki FIN 21.34 Q 4 Klaus Thiele GDR 21.36 Q 5 Luděk Bohman TCH 21.39 6 Mike Bayle LUX 21.48 7 Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson ISL 21.80 Wind: -1.5 m/s Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Pascal Barré FRA 20.78 Q 2 Vladimir Ignatenko URS 1955 20.98 Q 3 Luis Sarría ESP 1977 21.18 Q 4 Martin Pelach TCH 21.48 Q 5 Pavel Pavlov BUL 1971 21.50 6 Renno Roelandt BEL DNF Wind: -0.2 m/s Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Zenon Licznerski POL 20.82 Q 2 Vladimir Ivanov BUL 1971 20.96 Q 3 Olaf Prenzler GDR 20.97 Q 4 Peter Muster SUI 21.04 Q 5 Trevor Hoyte GBR 21.24 6 Patrick Barré FRA 21.27 7 Marián Králik TCH 21.47 Wind: +0.2 m/s Semi-finals 31 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Pietro Mennea ITA 20.40 Q 2 Peter Muster SUI 20.63 Q 3 Leszek Dunecki POL 20.64 Q 4 Olaf Prenzler GDR 20.69 Q 5 Vladimir Ignatenko URS 1955 20.74 6 Joseph Arame FRA 21.08 7 Antti Rajamäki FIN 21.19 8 Martin Pelach TCH 21.59 Wind: -0.2 m/s Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Pascal Barré FRA 20.96 Q 2 Vladimir Ivanov BUL 1971 20.96 Q 3 Aleksandr Aksinin URS 1955 21.08 Q 4 Zenon Licznerski POL 21.10 Q 5 Luis Sarría ESP 1977 21.24 6 Dragan Zarić SFR Yugoslavia 21.28 7 David Jenkins GBR 21.59 8 Klaus Thiele GDR DNF Wind: 0.0 m/s Final 1 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Pietro Mennea ITA 20.16 CR European Athletics Championships Olaf Prenzler GDR 20.61 Peter Muster SUI 20.64 4 Leszek Dunecki POL 20.68 5 Pascal Barré FRA 20.70 6 Zenon Licznerski POL 20.74 7 Aleksandr Aksinin URS 1955 20.87 8 Vladimir Ivanov BUL 1971 20.92 Wind: -0.2 m/s References Category:200 metres at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships