1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
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The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 2 and 3 September 1978.[1]
Medalists
Gold | Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin Poland |
Silver | Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme East Germany |
Bronze | Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko Soviet Union |
Results
Final
3 September
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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Poland | Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin | 38.58 | CR | |
East Germany | Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme | 38.78 | ||
Soviet Union | Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko | 38.82 | ||
4 | France | Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Lucien Sainte-Rose Hermann Panzo | 38.90 | |
5 | Italy | Giovanni Grazioli Luciano Caravani Stefano Curini Pietro Mennea | 39.11 | |
6 | Great Britain | Trevor Hoyte Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Steve Green | 39.49 | |
7 | Switzerland | Franco Fähndrich Urs Gisler Peter Muster Hansjörg Ziegler | 39.56 | |
8 | Belgium | Ronald Desruelles Hans van den Daele Danny Roelandt Lambert Micha | 39.73 |
Heats
2 September
Heat 1
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Poland | Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin | 39.20 | Q |
2 | Italy | Giovanni Grazioli Luciano Caravani Stefano Curini Pietro Mennea | 39.51 | Q |
3 | Switzerland | Franco Fähndrich Urs Gisler Peter Muster Hansjörg Ziegler | 39.87 | Q |
4 | Great Britain | Trevor Hoyte Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Steve Green | 40.08 | Q |
5 | Czechoslovakia | Jan Cheben Otakar Wild Marián Králik Luděk Bohman | 40.43 |
Heat 2
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | East Germany | Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme | 39.05 | Q |
2 | Soviet Union | Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko | 39.21 | Q |
3 | France | Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Lucien Sainte-Rose Hermann Panzo | 39.45 | Q |
4 | Belgium | Ronald Desruelles Danny Roelandt Hans van den Daele Lambert Micha | 40.16 | Q |
Bulgaria | Ivaylo Karanyotov Vladimir Ivanov Veselin Panov Petar Petrov | DNF |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.
- Belgium (4)
- Bulgaria (4)
- Czechoslovakia (4)
- East Germany (4)
- France (4)
- Italy (4)
- Poland (4)
- Switzerland (4)
- Soviet Union (4)
- Great Britain (4)
References
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014