The women's

100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten Hurdling, hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first h ...

at the

1978 European Athletics Championships 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 i ...

was held in

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, then Czechoslovakia, at

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 internatio ...

on 31 August and 2 September 1978.

Medalists

Results

Final

2 September Wind: 0.6 m/s Note: The final originally took place on 1 September but during its course Grażyna Rabsztyn veered off onto the neighbouring lane and caused Nina Margulina to fall down. Because of this the race was re-run a day later without Grażyna Rabsztyn, with the same athletes taking the medals in exactly the same order.Video of the re-run
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Semi-finals

31 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0.2 m/s

Heats

31 August

Heat 1

Wind: -0.3 m/s

Heat 2

Wind: 1.8 m/s

Heat 3

Wind: -1.9 m/s

Heat 4

Wind: 0.4 m/s

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event. * (1) * (2) * (1) * (4) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (2) * (3)

References

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Sprint hurdles at the European Athletics Championships 1978 in women's athletics