1978 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 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 women's 1500 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 1 and 3 September 1978.

Medalists

Gold	Giana Romanova Soviet Union
Silver	Natalia Mărăşescu Romania
Bronze	Totka Petrova Bulgaria

Results

Final

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	United Kingdom	4:11.5

Heats

1 September

Heat 1

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	United Kingdom	4:17.5
8	Tineke Kluft	Netherlands	4:17.7
9	Irén Lipcsei	Hungary	4:20.2
10	Fernande Schmitt	Luxembourg	4:31.3

Heat 2

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	United Kingdom	4:11.8	q
8	Magdolna Lazar	Hungary	4:14.4
9	Drahomíra Zvoníčková	Czechoslovakia	4:19.2
10	Véronique Renties	France	4:40.3

Participation

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

• Bulgaria (2)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• East Germany (1)
• France (1)

• Hungary (2)
• Italy (1)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Netherlands (1)

• Norway (1)
• Romania (2)
• Soviet Union (3)

• Switzerland (1)
• United Kingdom (2)
• West Germany (1)