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 long jump at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 1 and 2 September 1978.^[1]

Gold	Jacques Rousseau  France
Silver	Nenad Stekić  Yugoslavia
Bronze	Vladimir Tsepelyov  Soviet Union

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Jacques Rousseau	France	8.18	CR
	Nenad Stekić	Yugoslavia	8.12
	Vladimir Tsepelyov	Soviet Union	8.01
4	Grzegorz Cybulski	Poland	7.96
5	Jochen Verschl	West Germany	7.89
6	Valeriy Podluzhniy	Soviet Union	7.89
7	Roy Mitchell	Great Britain	7.88
8	Åke Fransson	Sweden	7.65
9	Jaroslav Křivka	Czechoslovakia	7.60
10	Stanisław Jaskułka	Poland	7.60
11	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.59
12	Jaroslav Priščák	Czechoslovakia	7.48

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Nenad Stekić	Yugoslavia	7.96	Q
2	Vladimir Tsepelyov	Soviet Union	7.95	Q
3	Jaroslav Priščák	Czechoslovakia	7.81	Q
4	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.80	Q
5	Valeriy Podluzhniy	Soviet Union	7.79	q
6	Roy Mitchell	Great Britain	7.77	q
7	Stanisław Jaskułka	Poland	7.74	q
8	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.72	q
9	Grzegorz Cybulski	Poland	7.71	q
10	Jaroslav Křivka	Czechoslovakia	7.71	q
11	Jochen Verschl	West Germany	7.66	q
12	Åke Fransson	Sweden	7.66	q
13	Marek Chludziński	Poland	7.61
14	Philippe Deroche	France	7.58
15	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	7.54
16	László Szalma	Hungary	7.53
17	Oganes Stepanyan	Soviet Union	7.52
18	Winfried Klepsch	West Germany	7.52
19	Dimitrios Delifotis	Greece	7.44
20	Maurizio Maffi	Italy	7.42
21	Alberto Solanas	Spain	7.36

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.