1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

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]

Medalists

Gold	Pietro Mennea Italy
Silver	Eugen Ray East Germany
Bronze	Vladimir Ignatenko Soviet Union

30 August Wind: 0.0m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	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

30 August

Wind: 0m/s

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: -0.8m/s

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

29 August

Wind: 0m/s

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: 0m/s

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: 0m/s

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: 0m/s

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

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

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Events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

100 metres at the European Athletics Championships
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