# 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Palasport di San Siro in Milan, Italy, between 11 and 12 March 1978. It was the first time the championships were held in Italy.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Nikolay Kolesnikov (URS) | 6.64 | Petar Petrov (BUL) | 6.66 | Aleksandr Aksinin (URS) | 6.73 |
| 400 metres details | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 46.51 | Ryszard Podlas (POL) | 46.55 | Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS) | 46.72 |
| 800 metres details | Markku Taskinen (FIN) | 1:47.35 NR | Olaf Beyer (GDR) | 1:47.68 | Roger Milhau (FRA) | 1:47.8a |
| 1500 metres details | Antti Loikkanen (FIN) | 3:38.16 CR | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:38.23 | Jürgen Straub (GDR) | 3:40.2a |
| 3000 metres details | Markus Ryffel (SUI) | 7:49.5a | Emiel Puttemans (BEL) | 7:49.9a | Jörg Peter (GDR) | 7:50.1a |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 7.62 =CR | Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (URS) | 7.72 | Giuseppe Buttari (ITA) | 7.86 |
| High jump details | Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) | 2.35 WR | Rolf Beilschmidt (GDR) | 2.29 | Wolfgang Killing (FRG) | 2.27 |
| Pole vault details | Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL) | 5.45 | Vladimir Trofimenko (URS) | 5.40 | Vladimir Sergiyenko (URS) | 5.40 |
| Long jump details | László Szalma (HUN) | 7.83 | Ronald Desruelles (BEL) | 7.75 | Vladimir Tsepelyov (URS) | 7.73 |
| Triple jump details | Anatoliy Piskulin (URS) | 16.82 | Keith Connor (GBR) | 16.53 | Aleksandr Yakovlev (URS) | 16.47 |
| Shot put details | Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN) | 20.48 | Władysław Komar (POL) | 20.16 | Geoff Capes (GBR) | 20.11 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Marlies Oelsner (GDR) | 7.12 CR | Linda Haglund (SWE) | 7.18 NR | Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS) | 7.27 |
| 400 metres details | Marina Sidorova (URS) | 52.42 | Rita Bottiglieri (ITA) | 53.18 | Karoline Käfer (AUT) | 53.56 |
| 800 metres details | Ulrike Bruns (GDR) | 2:02.3a | Totka Petrova (BUL) | 2:02.5a | Mariana Suman (ROM) | 2:03.4a |
| 1500 metres details | Ileana Silai (ROM) | 4:07.1a CR | Natalia Mărășescu (ROM) | 4:07.4a | Brigitte Kraus (FRG) | 4:07.6a |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Johanna Klier (GDR) | 7.94 CR | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 8.07 | Silvia Kempin (FRG) | 8.15 |
| High jump details | Sara Simeoni (ITA) | 1.94 CR | Brigitte Holzapfel (FRG) | 1.91 | Urszula Kielan (POL) | 1.88 |
| Long jump details | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.62 | Ildikó Erdélyi (HUN) | 6.49 | Sue Reeve (GBR) | 6.48 |
| Shot put details | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 20.67 | Margitta Droese (GDR) | 19.77 | Eva Wilms (FRG) | 19.24 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | Finland (FIN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (4)
* Belgium (6)
* Bulgaria (13)
* Czechoslovakia (11)
* East Germany (14)
* Finland (10)
* France (18)
* Great Britain (10)
* Greece (2)
* Hungary (8)
* Iceland (3)
* Italy (29)
* Liechtenstein (1)
* Netherlands (7)
* Norway (2)
* Poland (22)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (6)
* Soviet Union (31)
* Spain (7)
* Sweden (6)
* Switzerland (6)
* Turkey (3)
* West Germany (26)
* Yugoslavia (6)