1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men
60 m hurdles	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
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The women's 800 metres event at the 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 and 12 March in Milan.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ulrike Bruns  East Germany	Totka Petrova  Bulgaria	Mariana Suman  Romania

First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2:01.5	Q
2	3	Mariana Suman	Romania	2:01.6	Q
3	3	Tatyana Providokhina	Soviet Union	2:02.4
4	2	Heike Roock	East Germany	2:02.9	Q
5	3	Marie-Françoise Dubois	France	2:03.0
6	2	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:03.1	Q
7	2	Elżbieta Katolik	Poland	2:03.4
8	1	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	2:04.3	Q
8	1	Verona Elder	Great Britain	2:04.3	Q
8	2	Elena Tărîță	Romania	2:04.3
11	3	Silvana Cruciata	Italy	2:04.7
12	1	Chantal Aubry	France	2:05.9
13	1	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:06.0
14	2	Galina Atanasova	Bulgaria	2:06.7
15	1	Lilja Guðmundsdóttir	Iceland	2:11.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	2:02.3
	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2:02.5
	Mariana Suman	Romania	2:03.4
4	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:03.8
5	Heike Roock	East Germany	2:03.8
6	Verona Elder	Great Britain	2:09.2