1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 3 September 1978.

Medalists

Gold	Leonid Moseyev Soviet Union
Silver	Nikolay Penzin Soviet Union
Bronze	Karel Lismont Belgium

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Leonid Moseyev	Soviet Union	2:11:57.5	CR
	Nikolay Penzin	Soviet Union	2:11:59.0
	Karel Lismont	Belgium	2:12:07.7
4	Waldemar Cierpinski	East Germany	2:12:20.0
5	Cătălin Andreica	Romania	2:12:29.4	NR
6	Massimo Magnani	Italy	2:12:45.3
7	Hans-Joachim Truppel	East Germany	2:12:54.3
8	Jürgen Eberding	East Germany	2:13:39.7
9	Dave Cannon	Great Britain	2:14:31.7
10	Mihaíl Koúsis	Greece	2:14:41.3
11	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov	Soviet Union	2:14:43.3
12	Göran Bengtsson	Sweden	2:15:01.9
13	Tony Simmons	Great Britain	2:15:31.5
14	Ferenc Szekeres	Hungary	2:15:45.0
15	Ryszard Marczak	Poland	2:15:47.8
16	Michelangelo Arena	Italy	2:16:09.2
17	Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer	Czechoslovakia	2:16:37.6
18	Henri Schoofs	Belgium	2:16:49.5
19	Josef Jánský	Czechoslovakia	2:16:53.0
20	Reinhard Leibold	West Germany	2:16:56.3
21	Jean-Marie Ancion	Belgium	2:17:24.5
22	Ko van den Weyden	Netherlands	2:17:32.8
23	Bernard Bobes	France	2:17:48.0
24	Aarno Ristimäki	Finland	2:18:17.8
25	Colin Taylor	Great Britain	2:18:44.5
26	Antonio Romero	Spain	2:19:26.4
27	Patrick Hooper	Ireland	2:20:28.5
28	Manuel Paiva	Portugal	2:20:49.4
29	Richard Hooper	Ireland	2:21:00.2
30	Cor Vriend	Netherlands	2:21:25.2
31	Henry Olsen	Norway	2:21:35.1
32	Sadık Salman	Turkey	2:22:47.4
33	Jørn Lauenborg	Denmark	2:23:14.8
34	Roelof Veld	Netherlands	2:23:38.3
35	András Fancsali	Hungary	2:23:39.7
36	Veli Ballı	Turkey	2:25:56.2
37	Kyriakos Lazaridis	Greece	2:32:16.9
	Paolo Accaputo	Italy	DNF
	Jörgen Hein	Denmark	DNF
	Lars Enqvist	Sweden	DNF
	Jan Fjærestad	Norway	DNF
	Bjarne Brøndum	Denmark	DNF
	Miroslav Krsek	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Ryszard Kopijasz	Poland	DNF
	Håkan Spik	Finland	DNF
	Aniceto Simões	Portugal	DNF
	Fernand Kolbeck	France	DNF
	Øyvind Dahl	Norway	DNF
	Jochen Schirmer	West Germany	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 49 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

• Belgium (3)
• Czechoslovakia (3)
• Denmark (3)
• East Germany (3)
• Finland (2)
• France (2)
• Greece (2)
• Hungary (2)
• Ireland (2)
• Italy (3)
• Netherlands (3)
• Norway (3)
• Poland (2)
• Portugal (2)
• Romania (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Spain (1)
• Sweden (2)
• Turkey (2)
• Great Britain (3)
• West Germany (2)