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
v t e

These are the official results of the Men's 1,500 metres event at the 1978 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.^[1] The final was held on 3 September 1978.

Medalists

Gold	Steve Ovett  Great Britain
Silver	Eamonn Coghlan  Ireland
Bronze	David Moorcroft  Great Britain

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	3:35.59	CR
	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:36.57
	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	3:36.70
4	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:37.19
5	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	3:37.54
6	José Marajo	France	3:38.20
7	Jürgen Straub	East Germany	3:38.88
8	John Robson	Great Britain	3:39.6
9	Olaf Beyer	East Germany	3:39.7
10	Francis Gonzalez	France	3:40.1
11	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	3:41.0
12	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	3:42.2

Heats

1 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:39.98	Q
2	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	3:40.0	Q
3	Olaf Beyer	East Germany	3:40.1	Q
4	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:40.1	q
5	José Marajo	France	3:40.6	q
6	Valeriy Abramov	Soviet Union	3:40.9
7	Bernhard Vifian	Switzerland	3:42.5
8	Robert Nemeth	Austria	3:44.1
9	Ari Paunonen	Finland	3:45.0
10	José Manuel Abascal	Spain	3:47.6
11	Marcel Pierrard	Luxembourg	3:52.8
	Klaas Lok	Netherlands	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	3:42.94	Q
2	Jürgen Straub	East Germany	3:43.1	Q
3	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	3:43.2	Q
4	Marc Nevens	Belgium	3:43.2
5	Ray Flynn	Ireland	3:44.1
6	Dietmar Millonig	Austria	3:44.8
7	Vladimir Sheronov	Soviet Union	3:45.1
8	Günther Hasler	Liechtenstein	3:46.7
9	Philippe Dien	France	3:47.4
10	Björn Nilsson	Sweden	3:47.9
11	Jón Didriksson	Iceland	3:48.1

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	3:39.66	Q
2	John Robson	Great Britain	3:40.0	Q
3	Francis Gonzalez	France	3:40.4	Q
4	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	3:40.6	q
5	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	3:40.7
6	Günther Ruth	East Germany	3:41.4
7	Lars Ericsson	Sweden	3:42.5
8	Valeriy Toropov	Soviet Union	3:45.1
9	Sermet Timurlenk	Turkey	3:45.8
10	Fotios Kourtis	Greece	3:45.9
	Karl Fleschen	West Germany	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

See also

• 1974 Men's European Championships 1,500 metres (Rome)
• 1976 Men's Olympic 1,500 metres (Montreal)
• 1980 Men's Olympic 1,500 metres (Moscow)
• 1982 Men's European Championships 1,500 metres (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships 1,500 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic 1,500 metres (Los Angeles)

References

• Results