1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 1 and 3 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists[edit]

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Giana Romanova	Soviet Union	3:59.01	CR
	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	3:59.77
	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	4:00.15
4	Valentina Ilyinykh	Soviet Union	4:00.18
5	Grete Waitz	Norway	4:00.55	NR
6	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:01.25
7	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:02.20
8	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4:04.60
9	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	4:04.73
10	Lyudmila Kalnitskaya	Soviet Union	4:06.6
11	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:09.3
12	Christine Benning	Great Britain	4:11.5

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:11.50	Q
2	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:11.5	Q
3	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	4:11.7	Q
4	Giana Romanova	Soviet Union	4:11.8	Q
5	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4:11.8	Q
6	Brigitte Kraus	West Germany	4:11.9
7	Mary Stewart	Great Britain	4:17.5
8	Tineke Kluft	Netherlands	4:17.7
9	Irén Lipcsei	Hungary	4:20.2
10	Fernande Schmitt	Luxembourg	4:31.3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4:05.76	Q
2	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:06.1	Q
3	Valentina Ilyinykh	Soviet Union	4:06.3	Q
4	Grete Waitz	Norway	4:06.3	Q
5	Lyudmila Kalnitskaya	Soviet Union	4:06.7	Q
6	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	4:07.2	q
7	Christine Benning	Great Britain	4:11.8	q
8	Magdolna Lázár	Hungary	4:14.4
9	Drahomíra Zvoníčková	Czechoslovakia	4:19.2
10	Véronique Renties	France	4:40.3

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

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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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