1978 European Athletics Championships

The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 31 August and 2 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Johanna Klier East Germany
Silver	Tatyana Anisimova Soviet Union
Bronze	Gudrun Berend East Germany

Results

Final

2 September Wind: 0.6 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Johanna Klier	East Germany	12.62
	5	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.67
	1	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	12.73
4	3	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	12.86
5	8	Lucyna Langer	Poland	12.98
6	6	Annerose Fiedler	East Germany	13.09
7	7	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.17
	2	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	DQ

Note: The final originally took place on 1 September but during its course Grażyna Rabsztyn veered off onto the neighbouring lane and caused Nina Margulina to fall down.^[2]^[3] Because of this the race was re-run a day later without Grażyna Rabsztyn, with the same athletes taking the medals in exactly the same order.^[4]

Semi-finals

31 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.60	CR Q
2	Johanna Klier	East Germany	12.90	Q
3	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	13.00	Q
4	Annerose Fiedler	East Germany	13.07	Q
5	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	13.25
6	Xénia Siska	Hungary	13.36
7	Monika Schönauerová	Czechoslovakia	13.72
8	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.90

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	12.90	Q
2	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.92	Q
3	Lucyna Langer	Poland	13.00	Q
4	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.14	Q
5	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.44
6	Elisavet Pantazi	Greece	13.82
	Sylvia Kempin	East Germany	DNF
	Lidiya Gusheva	Bulgaria	DNS

Heats

31 August

Heat 1

Wind: -0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grazyna Rabsztyn	Poland	12.94	Q
2	Nina Margulina	Soviet Union	13.04	Q
3	Gudrun Berend	East Germany	13.26	Q
4	Xénia Siska	Hungary	13.48	Q
5	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	13.56
6	Laurence Elloy	France	14.07

Heat 2

Wind: 1.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Johanna Klier	East Germany	12.85	Q
2	Lucyna Langer	Poland	13.13	Q
3	Sharon Colyear	Great Britain	13.23	Q
4	Sylvia Kempin	East Germany	13.40	Q
5	Laurence Lebeau	France	13.60
6	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	13.63

Heat 3

Wind: -1.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Elżbieta Rabsztyn	Poland	13.20	Q
2	Lorna Boothe	Great Britain	13.46	Q
3	Lidiya Gusheva	Bulgaria	13.52	Q
4	Monika Schönauerová	Czechoslovakia	13.61	Q
5	Lena Spoof	Finland	13.63

Heat 4

Wind: 0.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.85	Q
2	Annerose Fiedler	East Germany	13.43	Q
3	Ileana Ongar	Italy	13.74	Q
4	Elisavet Pantazi	Greece	13.84	Q
5	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	13.95
6	Hana Chocová	Czechoslovakia	14.04

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

Bulgaria (1)
Czechoslovakia (2)
Denmark (1)
East Germany (4)
Finland (1)
France (2)
Greece (1)
Hungary (1)
Italy (1)
Norway (1)
Poland (3)
Soviet Union (2)
Great Britain (3)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014
↑ Video of the original final
↑ "Capes sent off". New Nation. 2 September 1978. p. 16. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
↑ Video of the re-run

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[eaa_01-1] European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014

[2] Video of the original final

[3] "Capes sent off". New Nation. 2 September 1978. p. 16. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[4] Video of the re-run

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Events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men