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 men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 2 and 3 September 1978.^[1]

Gold	Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin  Poland
Silver	Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme  East Germany
Bronze	Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko  Soviet Union

3 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Poland	Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin	38.58	CR
	East Germany	Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme	38.78
	Soviet Union	Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko	38.82
4	France	Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Lucien Sainte-Rose Hermann Panzo	38.90
5	Italy	Giovanni Grazioli Luciano Caravani Stefano Curini Pietro Mennea	39.11
6	Great Britain	Trevor Hoyte Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Steve Green	39.49
7	Switzerland	Franco Fähndrich Urs Gisler Peter Muster Hansjörg Ziegler	39.56
8	Belgium	Ronald Desruelles Hans van den Daele Danny Roelandt Lambert Micha	39.73

2 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Poland	Zenon Nowosz Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin	39.20	Q
2	Italy	Giovanni Grazioli Luciano Caravani Stefano Curini Pietro Mennea	39.51	Q
3	Switzerland	Franco Fähndrich Urs Gisler Peter Muster Hansjörg Ziegler	39.87	Q
4	Great Britain	Trevor Hoyte Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Steve Green	40.08	Q
5	Czechoslovakia	Jan Cheben Otakar Wild Marián Králik Luděk Bohman	40.43

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	East Germany	Manfred Kokot Eugen Ray Olaf Prenzler Alexander Thieme	39.05	Q
2	Soviet Union	Sergey Vladimirtsev Nikolay Kolesnikov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Ignatenko	39.21	Q
3	France	Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Lucien Sainte-Rose Hermann Panzo	39.45	Q
4	Belgium	Ronald Desruelles Danny Roelandt Hans van den Daele Lambert Micha	40.16	Q
	Bulgaria	Ivaylo Karanyotov Vladimir Ivanov Veselin Panov Petar Petrov	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.