Events at the 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

The men's decathlon at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 30 and 31 August 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Aleksandr Grebenyuk  Soviet Union
Silver	Daley Thompson  Great Britain
Bronze	Siegfried Stark  East Germany

Results

Final

30/31 August

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Name	Nationality	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points	Notes
	Aleksandr Grebenyuk	Soviet Union	11.02	6.94	15.93	2.01	48.88	14.43	48.42	4.50	67.74	4:24.4	8337 (8340)	CR
	Daley Thompson	Great Britain	10.69	7.93	14.69	2.04	47.77	15.28	43.52	4.20	59.80	4:22.84	8257 (8289)
	Siegfried Stark	East Germany	11.17	7.30	15.04	1.95	49.57	15.12	44.52	4.90	69.00	4:24.0	8224 (8208)
4	Sepp Zeilbauer	Austria	11.12	7.32	14.81	1.92	49.55	14.61	45.22	4.70	60.36	4:41.6	7969 (7988)
5	Yuriy Kutsenko	Soviet Union	11.02	7.24	14.82	1.98	49.23	15.34	43.76	4.40	57.74	4:22.9	7918 (7978)
6	Roger Kanerva	Finland	11.18	7.22	13.32	2.01	49.62	15.28	41.82	4.80	61.60	4:25.4	7923 (7945)
7	Johannes Lahti	Finland	10.86	7.08	14.06	2.07	49.64	15.00	41.36	4.00	67.98	4:36.7	7875 (7913)
8	Rainer Pottel	East Germany	11.05	7.40	15.05	1.92	48.04	14.89	32.80	4.90	56.24	4:29.5	7883 (7900)
9	Holger Schmidt	West Germany	10.96	7.16	15.74	1.95	49.66	14.84	48.12	4.10	59.82	5:01.1	7778 (7829)
10	Yves Le Roy	France	11.27	7.17	14.38	1.89	49.65	15.11	47.96	4.70	56.32	4:46.6	7748 (7780)
11	Thierry Dubois	France	10.99	7.23	13.78	1.95	49.58	14.97	42.82	4.00	66.80	4:54.4	7664 (7705)
12	Vladimir Buryakov	Soviet Union	11.45	7.12	14.01	1.95	50.20	15.11	40.58	4.70	57.86	4:37.7	7629 (7670)
13	Jürgen Hingsen	West Germany	11.39	7.39	13.94	1.98	50.22	15.33	39.72	4.10	58.66	4:28.47	7585 (7640)
14	Dietmar Schauerhammer	East Germany	10.81	7.21	14.91	1.86	47.59	15.02	41.96	4.00	51.70	4:52.0	7548 (7635)
15	Atanas Andonov	Bulgaria	11.15	6.94	13.54	1.92	51.00	14.77	41.50	4.40	58.34	4:39.4	7527 (7590)
16	Jaromír Frič	Czechoslovakia	11.39	7.08	13.58	1.92	50.76	15.40	45.32	4.80	52.96	4:55.0	7469 (7516)
17	Armin Tschenett	Switzerland	10.98	7.01	13.15	1.92	48.74	15.47	34.30	4.10	49.14	4:30.8	7266 (7362)
18	Christer Lythell	Sweden	11.39	7.17	13.55	1.83	50.12	15.43	45.42	4.00	53.08	4:41.7	7287 (7362)
19	Elias Sveinsson	Iceland	11.24	6.17	14.17	1.95	51.50	15.48	43.64	4.20	57.14	4:44.8	7225 (7317)
20	Luděk Pernica	Czechoslovakia	11.55	6.72	13.43	1.89	51.41	15.18	42.46	4.30	48.90	4:29.64	7203 (7290)
21	Árpád Kiss	Hungary	11.34	6.83	14.45	1.95	51.02	15.05	42.20	3.80	50.70	5:02.0	7103 (7202)
22	Kenneth Riggsberger	Sweden	11.39	6.62	13.46	1.80	50.15	16.08	39.60	4.20	50.88	4:41.5	6957 (7063)
	Georg Werthner	Austria	11.39	7.11	13.46	1.92	50.49	15.48	35.92	4.20	68.70		DNF
	Guido Kratschmer	West Germany	DNF										DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References