200m

1978-09-01, wind: -0.2
Rank Result Name Country Wind
1 20.16 Pietro Mennea ITA -0.2

800m

1978-08-31
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 1:43.84 Olaf Beyer GDR PB (Alltime-137)
2 1:44.09 Steve Ovett GBR PB (Alltime-187)
3 1:44.76 Sebastian Coe GBR
4 1:45.79 Anatoliy Reshetnyak UKR PB (Alltime-791)

1500m

1978-09-03
Rank Result Name Country
1 3:35.59 Steve Ovett GBR
2 3:36.57 Eamonn Coghlan IRL
3 3:36.70 David Moorcroft GBR
4 3:37.19 Thomas Wessinghage FRG
5 3:37.54 Antti Loikkanen FIN

5000m

1978-09-02
Rank Result Name Country
1 13:28.57 Venanzio Ortis ITA
2 13:28.66 Markus Ryffel SUI
3 Aleksandr Fyedotkin BLR
4 13:28.80 John Treacy IRL
5 13:29.30 Ilie Floroiu ROU
6 13:29.70 Martti Vainio FIN

10000m

1978-08-29
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 27:30.99 Martti Vainio FIN PB (Alltime-361), NR
2 27:31.48 Venanzio Ortis ITA PB (Alltime-376)
3 27:31.50 Aleksandras Antipovas LTU PB (Alltime-377), NR
4 27:32.65 Brendan Foster GBR
5 27:36.27 David Black GBR PB (Alltime-443)
6 27:36.64 Gerard Tebroke NED PB (Alltime-450)
7 27:40.06 Ilie Floroiu ROU PB (Alltime-513), NR
8 27:40.61 Enn Sellik EST PB (Alltime-522), NR
9 27:41.26 Knut Kvalheim NOR PB (Alltime-538)
10 27:53.61 Jerzy Kowol POL PB (Alltime-881), NR
11 28:17.0 John Treacy IRL
12 28:19.60 Léon Schots BEL
13 28:29.4 Catalin Andrecia ROU

400m h

1978-08-31
Rank Result Name Country
1 48.51 Harald Schmid FRG

3000h

1978-09-03
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 8:15.08 Bronislaw Malinowski POL
2 8:16.92 Patriz Ilg FRG
3 8:18.29 Ismo Toukonen FIN PB (Alltime-281)
4 8:19.01 Michael Karst FRG
5 8:20.41 Paul Copu ROU PB (Alltime-372)
6 8:24.86 Vasile Bichea ROU

4x100m

1978-09-03
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 38.58 Zenon Nowosz,
Zenon Licznerski,
Leszek Dunecki,
Marian Woronin 		POL Alltime-752
2 38.78 Manfred Kokot,
Eugen Ray,
Olaf Prenzler,
Alexander Thieme 		GDR Alltime-1225
3 38.82 Sergey Vladimirtsev (TKM),
Nikolay Kolesnikov (RUS),
Aleksandr Aksinin (RUS),
Vladimir Ignatenko (UKR) 		Soviet Union Alltime-1334
4 38.90 Patrick Barré,
Pascal Barré,
Lucien Sainte-Rose,
Herman Panzo 		FRA

4x400m

1978-09-03
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 3:02.03 Martin Weppler,
Franz-Peter Hofmeister,
Bernd Herrmann,
Harald Schmid 		FRG Alltime-903

Shot put

1978-09-01
Rank Result Name Country
1 21.08 Udo Beyer GER

Javelin throw (old design)

1978-08-30
Rank Result Name Country
1 89.12 Michael Wessing FRG

Decathlon

1978-08-31
Rank Result Name Country
1 8337 Aleksandr Grebenyuk RUS
2 8258 Daley Thompson GBR
3 8224 Siegfried Stark GDR