1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

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 hammer throw at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 1 and 2 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union	77.28	CR
02 !	Roland Steuk	East Germany	77.24
03 !	Karl-Hans Riehm	West Germany	77.02
4	Detlef Gerstenberg	East Germany	76.70
5	Manfred Hüning	West Germany	76.46
6	Boris Zaychuk	Soviet Union	75.62
7	Edoardo Podberscek	Italy	73.02
8	Giampaolo Urlando	Italy	72.62
9	Jochen Sachse	East Germany	71.56
10	Gábor Tamás	Hungary	70.72
11	Harri Huhtala	Finland	69.92
12	Klaus Ploghaus	West Germany	69.30

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Roland Steuk	East Germany	73.22	Q
2	Karl-Hans Riehm	West Germany	73.06	Q
3	Giampaolo Urlando	Italy	73.04	Q
4	Detlef Gerstenberg	East Germany	72.80	Q
5	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union	71.36	Q
6	Boris Zaychuk	Soviet Union	71.34	Q
7	Manfred Hüning	West Germany	71.18	Q
8	Klaus Ploghaus	West Germany	70.86	Q
9	Jochen Sachse	East Germany	70.62	Q
10	Edoardo Podberscek	Italy	70.26	Q
11	Gábor Tamás	Hungary	70.04	Q
12	Harri Huhtala	Finland	69.84	Q
13	Orlando Bianchini	Italy	69.78
14	Emanuil Dulgherov	Bulgaria	68.96
15	Aleksey Malyukov	Soviet Union	68.78
16	Richard Olsen	Norway	68.56
17	Jacques Accambray	France	67.78
18	Philippe Suriray	France	66.78
19	Radomil Skoumal	Czechoslovakia	65.44
20	Chris Black	United Kingdom	63.54

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

Hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships

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Women	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016

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