1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

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

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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

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Final

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3 September

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Poland Zenon Nowosz
Zenon Licznerski
Leszek Dunecki
Marian Woronin
38.58 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  East Germany Manfred Kokot
Eugen Ray
Olaf Prenzler
Alexander Thieme
38.78
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

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2 September

Heat 1

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
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

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
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

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According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References

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