The women's 800 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29, 30, and 31 August 1978.
Medalists Gold Tatyana Providokhina Silver Nadezhda Mushta Bronze Zoya Rigel
Results
Final 31 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Tatyana Providokhina 1:55.80 CR Nadezhda Mushta 1:55.82 Zoya Rigel 1:56.57 4 Totka Petrova 1:56.59 5 Hildegard Ullrich 1:57.45 AJR 6 Anita Weiß 1:57.71 7 Ulrike Bruns 1:58.62 8 Fiţa Lovin 1:58.82
Semi-finals 30 August
Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Anita Weiß 1:58.8 Q 2 Nadezhda Mushta 1:58.8 Q 3 Fiţa Lovin 1:58.8 Q 4 Zoya Rigel 1:58.9 Q 5 Gabriella Dorio 2:00.5 6 Elena Tarita 2:01.7 7 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel 2:06.2 8 Irén Lipcsei 2:06.8
Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tatyana Providokhina 2:00.06 Q 2 Totka Petrova 2:00.2 Q 3 Ulrike Bruns 2:00.3 Q 4 Hildegard Ullrich 2:00.6 Q 5 Mariana Suman 2:01.62 6 Liz Barnes 2:01.69 7 Jane Colebrook 2:02.9 8 Jozefína Čerchlanová 2:07.0
Heats 29 August
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tatyana Providokhina 1:59.96 Q 2 Fiţa Lovin 2:00.0 Q 3 Ulrike Bruns 2:00.38 Q 4 Gabriella Dorio 2:00.4 Q 5 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel 2:01.3 Q 6 Jane Colebrook 2:03.0 q 7 Maria Ritter 2:09.0
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Hildegard Ullrich 2:01.39 Q 2 Zoya Rigel 2:01.6 Q 3 Totka Petrova 2:01.8 Q 4 Irén Lipcsei 2:02.3 Q 5 Elena Tarita 2:02.9 Q 6 Janet Prictoe 2:03.7 7 Elly van Hulst 2:03.9 8 Jindřiška Kubečková 2:04.0
Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Nadezhda Mushta 2:01.67 Q 2 Anita Weiß 2:01.8 Q 3 Jozefína Čerchlanová 2:02.0 Q 4 Liz Barnes 2:02.1 Q 5 Mariana Suman 2:02.2 Q 6 Marie-Rose Verhoeven 2:04.5 7 Fernande Schmitt 2:04.7
Participation According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.
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