1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 9th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Palasport di San Siro in Milan, a city in Italy, in 1978. It was the first time the championships was held in Italy.
Results
Track
| Discipline | 1st | Time | 2nd | Time | 3rd | Time | |
| 60 m | M | Nikolay Kolesnikov (URS) | 6.64 | Petar Petrov (BUL) | 6.66 | Aleksandr Aksinin (URS) | 6.73 |
| F | Marlies Oelsner (GDR) | 7.12 CR | Linda Haglund (SWE) | 7.18 (NR) | Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS) | 7.27 | |
| 400 m | M | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 46.51 | Ryszard Podlas (POL) | 46.55 | Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS) | 46.72 |
| F | Marina Sidorova (URS) | 52.42 | Rita Bottiglieri (ITA) | 53.18 | Karoline Käfer (AUT) | 53.56 | |
| 800 m | M | Markku Taskinen (FIN) | 1:47.35 NR | Olaf Beyer (GDR) | 1:47.68 | Roger Milhau (FRA) | 1:47.8a |
| F | Ulrike Bruns (GDR) | 2:02.3a | Totka Petrova (BUL) | 2:02.5a | Mariana Suman (ROM) | 2:03.4a | |
| 1500 m | M | Antti Loikkanen (FIN) | 3:38.16 CR | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:38.23 | Jürgen Straub (GDR) | 3:40.2a |
| F | Ileana Silai (ROM) | 4:07.1a CR | Natalia Marasescu (ROM) | 4:07.4a | Brigitte Kraus (FRG) | 4:07.6a | |
| 3000 m | M | Markus Ryffel (SUI) | 7:49.5a | Emiel Puttemans (BEL) | 7:49.9a | Jörg Peter (GDR) | 7:50.1a |
| 60 m hurdles | M | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 7.62 =CR | Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS) | 7.72 | Giuseppe Buttari (ITA) | 7.86 |
| F | Johanna Klier (GDR) | 7.94 CR | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 8.07 | Silvia Kempin (GDR) | 8.15 |
Field
| Discipline | 1st | Meter | 2nd | Meter | 3rd | Meter | |
| High Jump | M | Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) | 2.35 CR | Rolf Beilschmidt (GDR) | 2.29 | Wolfgang Killing (FRG) | 2.27 |
| F | Sara Simeoni (ITA) | 1.94 CR | Brigitte Holzapfel (FRG) | 1.91 | Urszula Kielan (POL) | 1.88 | |
| Long Jump | M | László Szalma (HUN) | 7.83 | Ronald Desruelles (BEL) | 7.75 | Vladimir Tsepelyov (URS) | 7.73 |
| F | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.62 | Ildikó Erdélyi (HUN) | 6.49 | Sue Reeve (GBR) | 6.48 | |
| Triple Jump | M | Anatoliy Piskulin (URS) | 16.82 | Keith Connor (GBR) | 16.53 | Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS) | 16.47 |
| Pole Vault | M | Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL) | 5.45 | Vladimir Trofimenko (URS) | 5.40 | Vladimir Sergiyenko (URS) | 5.40 |
| Shot Put | M | Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN) | 20.48 | Władysław Komar (POL) | 20.16 | Geoff Capes (GBR) | 20.11 |
| F | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 20.67 | Margitta Droese (GDR) | 19.77 | Eva Wilms (FRG) | 19.24 |
Medal table
| 1 |  East Germany |
4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |  Soviet Union |
4 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 |  Finland |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 |  Italy |
2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 |  Czechoslovakia |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 |  Poland |
1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 |  Romania |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 |  Hungary |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 |  Switzerland |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 |  West Germany |
0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 |  Belgium |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Bulgaria |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 13 |  United Kingdom |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 |  Sweden |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 |  France |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 |  Austria |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
External links
- Results - men at GBRathletics.com
- Results - women at GBRathletics.com
- EAA