1978 European Athletics Championships - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 1978_European_AthleticsThe 12th European Athletics Championships were held from 29 August to 3 September 1978 in the Stadion Evžena Rošického in Prague, the capital city of Czechoslovakia. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. There were a number of disqualifications because of infringements of IAAF doping rules resulting in ineligibility of 18 month concerning shot putter Yevgeniy Mironov, javelin thrower Vasiliy Yershov, pentathletes Nadiya Tkachenko and Yekaterina Gordiyenko ...
1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 1978_European_Athletics1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres. These are the official results of the Men's 800 metres event at the 1978 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The final was held on 31 August 1978. The two favourites for the race were Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe Ovett had won silver at 800 m at the previous European Championships in 1974 in Rome, and had won the 1500m, in spectacular fashion, at the IAAF World Cup the previous year (he was to remain unbeaten at that ...