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
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 1 and 2 September 1978.^[1]

Gold	Tatyana Zelentsova  Soviet Union
Silver	Silvia Hollmann  West Germany
Bronze	Karin Roßley  East Germany

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tatyana Zelentsova	Soviet Union	54.89	WR
	Silvia Hollmann	West Germany	55.14	NR
	Karin Roßley	East Germany	55.36	NR
4	Brigitte Köhn	East Germany	55.46
5	Krystyna Kacperczyk	Poland	55.55	NR
6	Anita Weiß	East Germany	55.63
7	Ingrīda Barkāne	Soviet Union	55.97
8	Genowefa Błaszak	Poland	57.72

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Silvia Hollmann	West Germany	56.08	CR Q
2	Anita Weiß	East Germany	56.19	Q
3	Krystyna Kacperczyk	Poland	56.20	Q
4	Karin Roßley	East Germany	56.27	Q
5	Mary Appleby	Ireland	57.36
6	Marina Makeyeva	Soviet Union	57.49
7	Lea Alaerts	Belgium	57.68
	Svilenka Filipova	Bulgaria	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Zelentsova	Soviet Union	55.89	CR Q
2	Ingrīda Barkāne	Soviet Union	56.32	Q
3	Brigitte Köhn	East Germany	56.55	Q
4	Genowefa Błaszak	Poland	56.67	Q
5	Erika Weinstein	West Germany	57.22
6	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	58.35
7	Anne Michel	Belgium	58.67
8	Liz Sutherland	Great Britain	62.83

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brigitte Köhn	East Germany	56.83	Q
2	Krystyna Kacperczyk	Poland	57.18	Q
3	Erika Weinstein	West Germany	57.56	Q
4	Mary Appleby	Ireland	57.66	Q
5	Eva Mohacsi	Hungary	59.61
6	Rosa-Maria Colorado	Spain	59.76
7	Kristianne Staut	Belgium	68.51

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Silvia Hollmann	West Germany	57.50	Q
2	Karin Roßley	East Germany	58.07	Q
3	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	58.12	NJR Q
4	Ingrīda Barkāne	Soviet Union	58.29	Q
5	Doina Badescu	Romania	59.72
6	Wilma Hillen	Netherlands	59.97
7	Kamila Jozefíková	Czechoslovakia	60.61

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Liz Sutherland	Great Britain	57.61	Q
2	Marina Makeyeva	Soviet Union	57.66	Q
3	Lea Alaerts	Belgium	57.74	Q
4	Genowefa Błaszak	Poland	58.11	Q
5	Anne Aren	Sweden	59.32
6	Montserrat Pujol	Spain	60.21
7	Dana Wildová	Czechoslovakia	60.97

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anita Weiß	East Germany	56.19	CR Q
2	Tatyana Zelentsova	Soviet Union	56.44	Q
3	Anne Michel	Belgium	58.19	Q
4	Svilenka Filipova	Bulgaria	58.31	Q
5	Danièle Lairloup	France	58.47
6	Lisbeth Helbling	Switzerland	58.57
7	Hana Slámová	Czechoslovakia	60.77

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.