1978 European Athletics Championships (1978)

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The 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 (present-day Czech Republic). 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 18-month bans for shot putter Yevgeniy Mironov, javelin thrower Vasiliy Yershov, and pentathletes Nadiya Tkachenko and Yekaterina Gordiyenko, all competing for the Soviet Union, as well as shot putter Elena Stoyanova from Bulgaria.

Gallery

Andreea Cacovean - national, Balkan, European and world gymnastics championOctavian Goga Cluj County LibraryPublic domain Europeana

František Břečka (cropped)Lanch73CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

Josef Lomický (cropped)Lanch73CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

Karel Kolář (cropped)Lanch73CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

Vstupenka ME 1978OISVCC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

People

Yevgeniy Mironov · 1949 CE – ?
Vasiliy Yershov · 1949 CE – 2000 CE
Nadiya Tkachenko · 1948 CE – ?
Elena Stoyanova · 1952 CE – ?

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