1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 2 and 3 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Martin Weppler Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann Harald Schmid West Germany
Silver	Jerzy Włodarczyk Zbigniew Jaremski Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas Poland
Bronze	Josef Lomický František Břečka Miroslav Tulis Karel Kolář Czechoslovakia

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	West Germany	Martin Weppler Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann Harald Schmid	3:02.03	CR
	Poland	Jerzy Włodarczyk Zbigniew Jaremski Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas	3:03.62
	Czechoslovakia	Josef Lomický František Břečka Miroslav Tulis Karel Kolář	3:03.99
4	Switzerland	Rolf Strittmatter Peter Haas Konstantin Vogt Rolf Gisler	3:04.29
5	East Germany	Frank Richter Günther Arnold Andreas Busse Jürgen Pfennig	3:04.39
6	France	Maurice Volmar Gérard Bouttier Hector Llatser Francis Demarthon	3:05.63
7	Italy	Roberto Tozzi Daniele Zanini Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea	3:06.7
8	Yugoslavia	Rok Kopitar Dragan Životić Milovan Savić Željko Knapić	3:06.9

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Poland	Jerzy Włodarczyk Zbigniew Jaremski Cezary Łapiński Ryszard Podlas	3:06.45	Q
2	Switzerland	Rolf Strittmatter Peter Haas Konstantin Vogt Rolf Gisler	3:06.6	Q
3	Czechoslovakia	Miroslav Tulis Josef Lomický František Břečka Karel Kolář	3:07.1	Q
4	Netherlands	Raymond Heerenveen Koen Gijsbers Marcel Klarenbeek Harry Schulting	3:07.6
5	Belgium	Eddy De Leeuw Jacques Borlée Rik Hermans Rik Vandenberghe	3:08.0
6	Great Britain	Terry Whitehead Glen Cohen David Jenkins Richard Ashton	3:39.9

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	West Germany	Martin Weppler Franz-Peter Hofmeister Bernd Herrmann Harald Schmid	3:05.97	Q
2	Italy	Roberto Tozzi Daniele Zanini Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea	3:06.5	Q
3	France	Maurice Volmar Gérard Bouttier Hector Llatser Francis Demarthon	3:06.6	Q
4	East Germany	Frank Richter Günther Arnold Andreas Busse Jürgen Pfennig	3:06.8	q
5	Yugoslavia	Rok Kopitar Dragan Životić Milovan Savić Željko Knapić	3:07.1	q
	Finland	Heikki Hämäläinen Markku Kukkoaho Antti Rajamäki Markku Taskinen	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References

^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014

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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
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