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1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

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Women's 800 metres
at the European Athletics Championships

The women's 800 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29, 30, and 31 August 1978.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Tatyana Providokhina
 Soviet Union
Silver Nadezhda Mushta
 Soviet Union
Bronze Zoya Rigel
 Soviet Union

Results

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Final

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31 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union 1:55.80 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union 1:55.82
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union 1:56.57
4 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 1:56.59
5 Hildegard Ullrich  East Germany 1:57.45 AJR
6 Anita Weiß  East Germany 1:57.71
7 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 1:58.62
8 Fiţa Lovin  Romania 1:58.82

Semi-finals

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30 August

Semi-final 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Anita Weiß  East Germany 1:58.8 Q
2 Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union 1:58.8 Q
3 Fiţa Lovin  Romania 1:58.8 Q
4 Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union 1:58.9 Q
5 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 2:00.5
6 Elena Tarita  Romania 2:01.7
7 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel  Belgium 2:06.2
8 Irén Lipcsei  Hungary 2:06.8

Semi-final 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union 2:00.06 Q
2 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 2:00.2 Q
3 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 2:00.3 Q
4 Hildegard Ullrich  East Germany 2:00.6 Q
5 Mariana Suman  Romania 2:01.62
6 Liz Barnes  Great Britain 2:01.69
7 Jane Colebrook  Great Britain 2:02.9
8 Jozefína Čerchlanová  Czechoslovakia 2:07.0

Heats

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29 August

Heat 1

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union 1:59.96 Q
2 Fiţa Lovin  Romania 2:00.0 Q
3 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 2:00.38 Q
4 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 2:00.4 Q
5 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel  Belgium 2:01.3 Q
6 Jane Colebrook  Great Britain 2:03.0 q
7 Maria Ritter  Liechtenstein 2:09.0

Heat 2

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Hildegard Ullrich  East Germany 2:01.39 Q
2 Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union 2:01.6 Q
3 Totka Petrova  Bulgaria 2:01.8 Q
4 Irén Lipcsei  Hungary 2:02.3 Q
5 Elena Tarita  Romania 2:02.9 Q
6 Janet Prictoe  Great Britain 2:03.7
7 Elly van Hulst  Netherlands 2:03.9
8 Jindřiška Kubečková  Czechoslovakia 2:04.0

Heat 3

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union 2:01.67 Q
2 Anita Weiß  East Germany 2:01.8 Q
3 Jozefína Čerchlanová  Czechoslovakia 2:02.0 Q
4 Liz Barnes  Great Britain 2:02.1 Q
5 Mariana Suman  Romania 2:02.2 Q
6 Marie-Rose Verhoeven  Belgium 2:04.5
7 Fernande Schmitt  Luxembourg 2:04.7

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 12 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