user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: Before 1979, what position was the European Indoor Championships?
Columns: ['Year', 'Competition', 'Venue', 'Position', 'Event']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: [1977.0, 'European Indoor Championships', 'San Sebastián , Spain', '7th', 'Triple jump']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Position" FROM "Table" WHERE "Competition" = 'European Indoor Championships' AND "Year" < 1979.0;