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 women's 800 metres at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29, 30, and 31 August 1978.^[1]

Gold	Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union
Silver	Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union
Bronze	Zoya Rigel  Soviet Union

31 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tatyana Providokhina	Soviet Union	1:55.80	CR
	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	1:55.82
	Zoya Rigel	Soviet Union	1:56.57
4	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	1:56.59
5	Hildegard Ullrich	East Germany	1:57.45	AJR
6	Anita Weiß	East Germany	1:57.71
7	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	1:58.62
8	Fiţa Lovin	Romania	1:58.82

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anita Weiß	East Germany	1:58.8	Q
2	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	1:58.8	Q
3	Fiţa Lovin	Romania	1:58.8	Q
4	Zoya Rigel	Soviet Union	1:58.9	Q
5	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:00.5
6	Elena Tarita	Romania	2:01.7
7	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:06.2
8	Irén Lipcsei	Hungary	2:06.8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Providokhina	Soviet Union	2:00.06	Q
2	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2:00.2	Q
3	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	2:00.3	Q
4	Hildegard Ullrich	East Germany	2:00.6	Q
5	Mariana Suman	Romania	2:01.62
6	Liz Barnes	Great Britain	2:01.69
7	Jane Colebrook	Great Britain	2:02.9
8	Jozefína Čerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	2:07.0

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Providokhina	Soviet Union	1:59.96	Q
2	Fiţa Lovin	Romania	2:00.0	Q
3	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	2:00.38	Q
4	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:00.4	Q
5	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:01.3	Q
6	Jane Colebrook	Great Britain	2:03.0	q
7	Maria Ritter	Liechtenstein	2:09.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hildegard Ullrich	East Germany	2:01.39	Q
2	Zoya Rigel	Soviet Union	2:01.6	Q
3	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2:01.8	Q
4	Irén Lipcsei	Hungary	2:02.3	Q
5	Elena Tarita	Romania	2:02.9	Q
6	Janet Prictoe	Great Britain	2:03.7
7	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	2:03.9
8	Jindřiška Kubečková	Czechoslovakia	2:04.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	2:01.67	Q
2	Anita Weiß	East Germany	2:01.8	Q
3	Jozefína Čerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	2:02.0	Q
4	Liz Barnes	Great Britain	2:02.1	Q
5	Mariana Suman	Romania	2:02.2	Q
6	Marie-Rose Verhoeven	Belgium	2:04.5
7	Fernande Schmitt	Luxembourg	2:04.7

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.