1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Events at the 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
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 200 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 31 August and 1 September 1978.

Medalists

Gold	Pietro Mennea Italy
Silver	Olaf Prenzler East Germany
Bronze	Peter Muster Switzerland

Results

Final

1 September Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.16	CR
	Olaf Prenzler	East Germany	20.61
	Peter Muster	Switzerland	20.64
4	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.68
5	Pascal Barré	France	20.70
6	Zenon Licznerski	Poland	20.74
7	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	20.87
8	Vladimir Ivanov	Bulgaria	20.92

Semi-finals

31 August

Semi-final 1

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.40	Q
2	Peter Muster	Switzerland	20.63	Q
3	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.64	Q
4	Olaf Prenzler	East Germany	20.69	Q
5	Vladimir Ignatenko	Soviet Union	20.74
6	Joseph Arame	France	21.08
7	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	21.19
8	Martin Pelach	Czechoslovakia	21.59

Semi-final 2

Wind: 0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pascal Barré	France	20.96	Q
2	Vladimir Ivanov	Bulgaria	20.96	Q
3	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	21.08	Q
4	Zenon Licznerski	Poland	21.10	Q
5	Luis Sarria	Spain	21.24
6	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	21.28
7	David Jenkins	United Kingdom	21.59
	Klaus Thiele	East Germany	DNF

Heats

31 August

Heat 1

Wind: 0.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.70	Q
2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	21.01	Q
3	Dragan Zarić	Yugoslavia	21.13	Q
4	David Jenkins	United Kingdom	21.16	Q
5	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.17
6	Lambert Micha	Belgium	21.36

Heat 2

Wind: -1.5m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	20.97	Q
2	Joseph Arame	France	21.32	Q
3	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	21.34	Q
4	Klaus Thiele	East Germany	21.36	Q
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.39
6	Mike Bayle	Luxembourg	21.48
7	Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	21.80

Heat 3

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pascal Barré	France	20.78	Q
2	Vladimir Ignatenko	Soviet Union	20.98	Q
3	Luis Sarria	Spain	21.18	Q
4	Martin Pelach	Czechoslovakia	21.48	Q
5	Pavel Pavlov	Bulgaria	21.50
	Renno Roelandt	Belgium	DNF

Heat 4

Wind: 0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Zenon Licznerski	Poland	20.82	Q
2	Vladimir Ivanov	Bulgaria	20.96	Q
3	Olaf Prenzler	East Germany	20.97	Q
4	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.04	Q
5	Trevor Hoyte	United Kingdom	21.24
6	Patrick Barré	France	21.27
7	Marián Králik	Czechoslovakia	21.47

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

• Belgium (2)
• Bulgaria (2)
• Czechoslovakia (3)
• East Germany (2)

• Finland (1)
• France (3)
• Iceland (1)
• Italy (1)

• Luxembourg (2)
• Poland (2)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (1)

• Switzerland (1)
• United Kingdom (2)
• Yugoslavia (1)