1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Stadion Evžena Rošického
Location	Prague
Dates	29 August (heats) 30 August (semifinals & final)
Competitors	28 from 15 nations
Winning time	10.27
Medalists
Pietro Mennea    Italy   Eugen Ray    East Germany   Vladimir Ignatenko    Soviet Union
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The men's 100 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29 and 30 August 1978. ^[1]

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

•   Austria (1)
•   Belgium (2)
•   Bulgaria (3)
•   Czechoslovakia (3)
•   East Germany (2)
•   France (2)
•   Great Britain (1)
•   Greece (1)
•   Iceland (1)
•   Italy (3)
•   Poland (2)
•   Soviet Union (3)
•   Sweden (2)
•    Switzerland (1)
•   Yugoslavia (1)

Results

Heats

29 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.40	Q
2	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.50	Q
3	Joseph Arame	France	10.59	Q
4	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.63	Q
5	Franco Fähndrich	Switzerland	10.64
6	Ladislav Latocha	Czechoslovakia	10.73
7	Ivaylo Karanyotov	Bulgaria	10.78
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.19	CR, Q
2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.31	Q
3	Vladimir Ignatenko	Soviet Union	10.38	Q
4	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	10.59	Q
5	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	10.60
6	Stefan Nilsson	Sweden	10.62
7	Otakar Wild	Czechoslovakia	10.73
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Eugen Ray	East Germany	10.30	Q
2	Marian Woronin	Poland	10.50	Q
3	Stefano Curini	Italy	10.58	Q
4	Kenth Rönn	Sweden	10.58	Q
5	Pierrick Thessard	France	10.79
6	Gernot Massing	Austria	10.86
7	Veselin Panov	Bulgaria	10.90
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.44	Q
2	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	10.49	Q
3	Lambros Kefalas	Greece	10.53	Q
4	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	10.55	Q
5	Alexander Thieme	East Germany	10.55
6	Zdeněk Mazur	Czechoslovakia	10.73
7	Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	10.76
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Semi-finals

30 August

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.26	Q
2	Vladimir Ignatenko	Soviet Union	10.45	Q
3	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.46	Q
4	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.53	Q
5	Marian Woronin	Poland	10.54
6	Kenth Rönn	Sweden	10.63
7	Stefano Curini	Italy	10.72
8	Lambert Micha	Belgium	10.74
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Eugen Ray	East Germany	10.30	Q
2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.38	Q
3	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.38	Q
4	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	10.43	Q
5	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	10.58
6	Lambros Kefalas	Greece	10.60
7	Joseph Arame	France	10.64
8	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	10.69
			Wind: -0.8 m/s

Final

30 August

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.27
	6	Eugen Ray	East Germany	10.36
	1	Vladimir Ignatenko	Soviet Union	10.37
4	4	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.41
5	8	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.43
6	3	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.45
7	2	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	10.46
8	5	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.55
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

References

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