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1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 Metres
The women's 400 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29, 30, and 31 August 1978. Results Heats 29 August Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Semi-finals 30 August Semi-final 1 Semi-final 2 Final 31 August References {{DEFAULTSORT:1978 European Athletics Championships, Womens 400 metres 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is ... 400 metres at the European Athletics Championships 1978 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadion Evžena Rošického
Stadion Evžena Rošického, also known simply as Strahov, is a multi-purpose stadium in Strahov, Prague in the Czech Republic. It hosted the 1978 European Athletics Championships and for many years this was the venue for main annual international track and field meet of Prague ( Evžen Rošický Memorial and later Josef Odložil Memorial) until Stadion Juliska took the role in 2002. Since then the stadium has been used only for minor domestic athletic competitions and mostly for football matches. It served as the home ground for SK Slavia Prague from August 2000 until May 2008 when their new stadium, the Synot Tip Arena, was opened. It is also occasionally used by other Czech teams, and is the usual venue for the Czech Cup final. The stadium holds 19,032 spectators. ''Stadion Evžena Rošického'' is adjacent to the considerably larger Great Strahov Stadium, the second biggest in the world. It is named after Czech athlete and anti-Nazi resistant Evžen Rošický, ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarmila Kratochvílová
Jarmila Kratochvílová (; born 26 January 1951 in Golčův Jeníkov) is a Czechoslovak former track and field athlete. She won the 400 metres and 800 metres at the 1983 World Championships, setting a world record in the 400 m. In 1983, she set the world record for the 800 metres, which still stands and is currently the longest-standing world record in athletics. Only two athletes, Pamela Jelimo of Kenya (2008), and Caster Semenya of South Africa (2018), have come within a second of Kratochvílová's mark since it was set. Biography In 1983, Kratochvílová broke the 800 m world record with a time of 1:53.28. At the World Championships shortly afterwards, she set a world record of 47.99 seconds to win the 400 m. Kratochvílová's 1983 400-metre world record of 47.99 seconds stood for two years until it was broken by her great rival Marita Koch in 1985. Koch's 400-metre world record of 47.60 seconds still stands in 2024. Kratochvílová's world record on an indoor track— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Schinzel
Silvia Schinzel (born 2 June 1958) is an Austrian sprinter. She competed in the women's 200 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal .... References 1958 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Austrian female sprinters Olympic athletes for Austria Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic female sprinters Austrian Athletics Championships winners {{Austria-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Hartley
Donna Marie Louise Hartley ( Murray, later Wass; 1 May 1955 – 7 June 2013) was a British athlete. She specialised in the 200, 400 and 4x400 relay. In the 4x400 relay she won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. She also won 2 Commonwealth Gold medals in the 400 and 4x400 relay at Edmonton, Canada Commonwealth Games 1978. Biography Murray, born in Southampton, was a south of England sprint champion and then became the British 200 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1972 WAAA Championships. Donna won the South of England 100m and 200m championships in 1974. A year later, Murray became the British 400 metres champion at the 1975 WAAA Championships. Shortly before the 1977 WAAA Championships Murray married fellow athlete Bill Hartley and competed under her married name thereafter. As Donna Hartley, she then won the 1977 UK Championships 400m. At the newly formed 1977 UK Athletics Championships Donna was AAA� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagmar Fuhrmann
Dagmar Fuhrmann (born 6 April 1954) is a German sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ... representing West Germany. References External links * 1954 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics German female sprinters Olympic athletes for West Germany Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic female sprinters West German Athletics Championships winners 20th-century German sportswomen {{Germany-sprint-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Pinigina
Mariya Dzhumabaevna Pinigina (, née Kulchunova; born 9 February 1958 in Ivanovka, Kyrgyz SSR) is a former Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres, training at Spartak in Kyiv. She represented the Soviet Union. Pinigina competed for USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ... in the 4 × 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her teammates 400 m hurdles silver medalist Tatyana Ledovskaya, 400 m bronze medalist Olga Nazarova and olympic 400 m champion Olha Bryzhina, Olga Bryzgina. That USSR relay team set a new world records in athletics, world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten. She also won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. In November 2013, she serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truus Van Amstel
Truus is a feminine Dutch given name, often a shortened hypocorism of Geertruida. Notable people with the name include: * Truus van Aalten (1910–1999), Dutch actress *Truus Bauer (1945–1989), Dutch rower *Truus Baumeister (1907–2000) Dutch swimmer * Truus Hennipman, (born 1943), Dutch sprinter * Truus Kerkmeester (1921–1990), Dutch swimmer * Truus Klapwijk (1904–1991), Dutch diver and swimmer * Truus Looijs (born 1946), Dutch swimmer * Truus Menger-Oversteegen (1923–2016), member of the Dutch resistance during World War II, sculptor and painter * Truus van der Plaat, Dutch track and road cyclist * Truus Schröder-Schräder (1889–1985), Dutch socialite and trained pharmacist *Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer (21 April 1896, Alkmaar – 30 August 1978, Amsterdam) was a Dutch resistance fighter who brought Jewish children and adults into safety before and during World War II. Together with other people involved in the pre-wa ... (1896–1978) (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Delachanal
Catherine Delachanal (born 4 April 1952, at Triel-sur-Seine) is a former French athlete, specialising in the 400 meters. Biography Catherine Delachanal won three French champion titles for the 400 meters, two outdoor in 1977 and 1979, and one indoor in 1977. She twice set the French record for the 4 × 100 Metres Relay, running 44.2 in 1974, and 43.8 in 1976. She participated in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, where she reached the quarterfinals of the 200 meters and was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 4 × 100 m. Prize list * French Championships in Athletics : ** 2 times winner of the 400m 1977 and 1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ... * Indoor Athletics Championships of France : ** winner of the 400 m in 1977 Records R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Decker
Elke Decker (born 23 February 1957) is a German female former track and field sprinter who competed in the 400 metres for West Germany. Born in Cologne, her greatest achievement was a gold medal at the 1980 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She also represented her country individually at the 1978 European Athletics Championships and 1982 European Athletics Indoor Championships, as well as in the 4 × 400 metres relay team at the 1979 IAAF World Cup The 2nd IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on August 24–26, 1979, at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Overall re .... Decker was a three-time national champion, winning the 400 m title once outdoors in 1979 and twice indoors in 1977 and 1980. She also topped the rankings as a guest at the Israeli Athletics Championships in 1986. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirjo Häggman
Airi Pirjo Maritta Wilmi-Rokkanen (née Wilmi, formerly Häggman; born 8 June 1951) is a retired Finnish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. Häggman was a member of the Finnish silver medal 4 × 400 m relay team at the 1974 European Athletics Championships in Rome. She competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. 1976 Häggman finished fourth, missing the bronze medal by 0.01 seconds. In 1981 Häggman and Venezuelan Flor Isava-Fonseca were the first women to be elected as International Olympic Committee members. She resigned in January 1999 due to the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal The 2002 Olympic Winter Games bid scandal was a scandal involving allegations of bribery used to win the rights to host the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Prior to its successful bid in 1995, the city had attempted f .... Häggman's ex-husband had been working as a paid consultant for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee during the bidding process. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verona Elder
Verona Marolin Elder (née Verona Bernard) MBE (born 5 April 1953 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire) is a female British, Commonwealth and European medal winning English 400 metres runner and is now the manager of the British athletics team for people with learning disability. Athletics career Bernard finished third behind Jannette Roscoe in the 400 metres event at the 1971 WAAA Championships and then became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1972 WAAA Championships. Shortly afterwards, Bernard made her debut on the international stage at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich taking fifth place in the 4 × 400 m relay. The following year in 1973, she won the 400 m title at the European Indoor Championships in Rotterdam, ahead of the East Germans Waltraud Dietsch and Renate Siebach. At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games, Bernard finished second in the 400 m and won the 4 × 400 m relay and won a gold medal in the women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
