Very little data has been obtained for the 1974 & 1978 Championships, as
a result of the secretive policy adopted by officials of the European AA,
requests for access being treated as if asking for the keys to Fort Knox.

Few details from preliminary rounds are available.  Of interest, however,            
are the winning times, as registered by photo-electric-cell, which I kept
note of during the Championships.  These are indicated by an asterisk (*) 
in the following lists.                                        Bob Sparks

800 metres
(Heat 1)
Ovett            1:47.80*
(Heat 2)
Beyer            1:47.72*
(Heat 3)
Busse            1:49.08*
(Heat 4)
Coe              1:46.82
Milhau           1:47.07
Becker           1:47.13
Zivotic          1:47.18
Podolyako        1:47.19
Timurlenk        1:47.23
Others not known
(SF.1)
Coe              1:47.44*
(SF.2)
Ovett            1:46.51
Beyer            1:46.74
Zivotic          1:46.94
Others not known
(Final)
Beyer            1:43.84
Ovett            1:44.09
Coe              1:44.76
Reshetnyak       1:45.79
Podolyako        1:46.24
Others not known

1500 metres
(Heat 1)
Coghlan          3:39.98*
(Heat 2)
Ovett            3:42.94*
(Heat 3)
Loikkanen        3:39.66*
(Final)
Ovett            3:35.59
Coghlan          3:36.57
Moorcroft        3:36.70
Wessinghage      3:37.19
Loikkanen        3:37.54
Marajo           3:38.20
Straub           3:38.88
Others not known

5000 metres
(Heat 1)
Zimmermann      13:32.42*
(Heat 2)
Fleschen        13:34.45*
(Heat 3)
Fedotkin        13:24.10
Ryffel          13:24.71
Ortis           13:26.67
Treacy          13:28.85
Herle           13:30.59
Others not known
(Final)
Ortis           13:28.52
Ryffel &
Fedotkin        13:28.60
Treacy          13:28.83
Floroiu         13:29.27
Vainio          13:29.67
Others not known

10,000 metres
Vainio          27:30.99
Ortis           27:31.48
Antipov         27:31.50
Foster          27:32.65
Black           27:36.27
Tebroke         27:36.64
Floroiu         27:40.06
Sellik          27:40.61
Kvalheim        27:41.26
Kowol           27:53.61
Others not known

3km Steeplechase
(Heat 1)
Gerbi            8:29.10
4. Bartos        8:31.94
Others not known
(Heat 2)
Copu             8:33.29*
(Heat 3)
Bichea           8:25.43
Malinowski       8:25.58
Others not known
(Final)
Malinowski       8:15.08
Ilg              8:16.92
Toukonen         8:18.29
Karst            8:19.01
Copu             8:20.41
Bichea           8:24.86
Others not known

Decathlon 1500 metres
(Race 1)
Pernica          4:29.64*
(Race 2)
Hingsen          4:28.47*
(Race 3)
Thompson         4:22.84*

4x400 metres
(Heat 1)
Poland           3:06.45*
(Heat 2)
W.Germany        3:05.97*
(Final)
W.Germany        3:02.03
Poland           3:03.62
Czechoslovakia   3:03.99
Switzerland      3:04.29
E.Germany        3:04.39
France           3:05.63
Others not known

(Women)

800 metres
(Heat 1)
Prividokhina     1:59.96*
3. Dorio         2:00.38
Others not known
(Heat 2)
Ullrich          2:01.39*
(Heat 3)
Mushta           2:01.67*
(SF.1)
Mushta           1:58.75*
3. Lovin         1:58.81
Others not known
(SF.2)
Providokhina     2:00.06*
5. Suman         2:01.62
6. Barnes        2:01.69
Others not known
(Final)
Providokhina     1:55.80
Mushta           1:55.82
Rigel            1:56.57
Petrova          1:56.59
Ullrich          1:57.45
Weiss            1:57.71
Bruns            1:58.62
Lovin            1:58.82

1500 metres
(Heat 1)
Bruns            4:11.50*
(Heat 2)
Marasescu        4:05.76*
(Final)
Romanova         3:59.01
Marasescu        3:59.77
Petrova          4:00.15
Ilyinykh         4:00.18
Waitz            4:00.55
Dorio            4:01.25
Bruns            4:02.20
Bürki            4:04.60
Yatsinska        4:04.73
Others not known

3000 metres
Ulmasova         8:33.16
Marasescu        8:33.53
Waitz            8:34.33
Puica            8:40.94
Romanova         8:45.74
Bürki            8:46.13
Belousova        8:48.73
Fudge            8:48.74
Ford             8:53.08
Christensen      9:02.87
Lázár            9:05.14
Debrouwer        9:05.21
Others not known

Pentathlon 800 metres
(Race 1)
Stolk            2:18.73*
(Race 2)
Losch            2:13.97*
(Race 3)
Tkachenko        2:12.25*

4x400 metres
(Heat 1)
U.S.S.R.         3:24.17*
(Heat 2)
E.Germany        3:27.71*
(Final)
E.Germany        3:21.20
U.S.S.R.         3:22.53
Poland           3:26.76
United Kingdom   3:27.17
W.Germany        3:27.96
Others not known

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