The 1978 European Judo Championships were the 28th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Helsinki, Finland on 6 May 1978. The victors were East Germany. The 1978 European Team Championships took place in Paris on 21 and 22 October 1978. The team event also being organized separately from this year edition onwards. The European Women's Championships were held in Cologne, West Germany, in November of the same year.

Medal overview

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg	Felice Mariani	Arpad Szabo[1]	Reinhard Arndt Evgeny Pogorelov
65 kg	Torsten Reißmann	Nikolay Solodukhin	József Tuncsik Dragan Kosic
71 kg	Günter Krüger	Engelbert Dörbandt	Neil Adams Károly Molnar
78 kg	Harald Heinke	Adam Adamczyk	Bernard Choullouyan Jerzy Jatowtt
86 kg	Alexander Yatskevich	Detlef Ultsch	Wolfgang Frank Jürgen Roethlisberger
95 kg	Dietmar Lorenz	Angelo Parisi	Robert Van De Walle Vladimir Gurin
95+ kg	Peter Adelaar	Imre Varga	Jean-Luc Rougé Sergey Novikov
Open class	Dietmar Lorenz	Jean-Luc Rougé	Imre Varga Dzhibilo Nizharadze

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (DDR)	5	1	1	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	4	6
3	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	3	5
6	France (FRA)	0	2	2	4
7	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
8	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
9	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		8	8	16	32

References

• Results of the 1978 European Judo Championships (JudoInside.com)